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Ph.D. in Management (Practice Track)
Program Objective
Beginning with the academic year 2024-2025, the Indian Institute of Management Raipur (IIM Raipur) will offer a Ph.D. in Management (Practice Track). It is a unique doctoral program in management specifically designed for working professionals with more than Six years of work experience. The Programme is intended to allow individuals having managerial/ entrepreneurial/ professional experience with an intelligent thirst to move to academic careers at a certain point in their life. By providing scholarly inputs to those with domain knowledge of their discipline, the program offers prospects of a full-time/part-time career within academia or in research positions outside the academic world.
Program Structure
Areas of specialization
The Ph.D. in Management (Practice Track) at IIM Raipur will be offered through the following Areas of Specialization:
- Economics & Public Policy
- Finance and Accounting
- Information Systems
- HRM & OB
- Humanities & Liberal Arts including Business Communication
- Marketing Management
- Operations and Qty Techniques
- Strategic Management
Program Duration
The scholar is expected to complete the program in four years. Under exceptional circumstances, an extension may be granted to the scholar. In any case, the entire program should finish within seven years. If a scholar fails to complete the requisite academic works for Ph.D. in Management (Practice Track) Programme within this specified period, then s/he has to withdraw from the program. The scholar’s registration will be terminated on the completion of seven years.
Curriculum
Ph.D. in Management (Practice Track) at IIM Raipur has two phases: coursework and thesis research. The first year divided into Terms 1, 2, and 3, covers the mandatory coursework. The participant begins her/his work toward thesis research in the second year after qualifying for the Comprehensive Qualifying Examination.
First-year
(A) Course Work
Semester | Courses | Credit |
| I | Corporate Finance | 1 |
| Marketing Management | 1 | |
| OB & HR | 1 | |
| Information system | 1 | |
| Strategic Management | 1 | |
| Operation Management | 1 | |
| Economics | 1 | |
| II | Philosophy of Research and Quantitative (Positivistic) Research Methodology | 1 |
| Basic Econometrics | 0.5 | |
| Qualitative research | 0.5 | |
| Statistical data analysis | 1 | |
| Academic writing and comprehension | 1 | |
| III | Area level Compulsory Course | 1 |
| Area level or Sectoral level elective I | 1 | |
| Area level or Sectoral level elective II | 1 | |
| Cross Area level Course | 1 | |
(A) Course Work
- Semester 1 is optional for participants with a PGDM/EPGDM/MBA degree/diploma but compulsory for all others. However, the PGDM/EPGDM/MBA should be from the Top 40 NIRF-ranking business schools or similar ranking agencies (such as FT100 university ranking).
- In Semester 1, the scholar must select five courses from a list of courses.
- All courses in Semesters 2 and 3 are compulsory for participants.
- Classes will be conducted on the IIM Raipur campus. The participants have an attendance requirement of 80%.
- In each Term (i.e Term 1, 2 & 3), there will be two campus visits consist of 10 and 12 days, respectively.
(B)Comprehensive Examination
On completion of the first-year coursework the scholar takes the written comprehensive examination. The comprehensive examination at the end of the 1st year tests whether the scholar has obtained a satisfactory level of knowledge in his/her field of specialization and whether s/he has satisfactorily integrated the various courses taken by him/her in the area. While the course work formally gets over with completing the Comprehensive examination, scholars are encouraged to continue taking advanced courses of interest even further into their research work. If a candidate is declared passed, s/he goes to the next stage, or else his/her registration is canceled from the program.
Second, Third, and Fourth Year
- The scholars will clear the Comprehensive Examination (CE) and work on a research topic under the Thesis Advisory Committee (TAC). Some pointers for the second, third, and fourth years are as follows:
- The scholar should present the thesis proposal before the faculty community in the second year after the comprehensive exam. The scholar should present his/her thesis proposal maximally by the end of the second year.
- The scholar must submit six-monthly progress reports duly attested by the TAC Chair throughout the second, third, and fourth year.
- The scholar should ideally give the final thesis seminar before the end of 2nd trimester of the fourth year. All exceptions from the proposed plan/ requests for extension must be submitted through the TAC Chair for approval of the Chairperson (Doctoral Programmes).
- For extension requests beyond the fourth year, the candidate must present the thesis/ work-in-progress before the TAC. The TAC will give feedback for incorporation into the thesis.
Visits to the Campus
The scholar must make regular visits beginning in their Second, Third and Fourth years and continuing through the submission of their thesis draft. A minimum of four days of campus visit is required in every quarter. However, the scholar/TAC can change the required quarterly visits to a single half yearly visit.