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Framing the PhD project – how to connect parts to a whole in a paper-based dissertation? - 2 ECTS

Tuesday 4 October 2022 at 09:00 to Wednesday 5 October 2022 at 16:00 - Room TBA

The course adopts a pragmatic approach to composing a coherent paper-based dissertation in a given research domain. It centers on the question: how can a dissertation be written to interest readers and withstand “assaults from a hostile environment”

DKK 2,600

Qualitative Research Methods – Fall 2022 - 5 ECTS

Tuesday 20 September 2022 at 09:00 to Friday 23 September 2022 at 16:00 - Room TBA

FacultyProfessor Torsten Ringberg, Department of Marketing, Copenhagen Business School. Professor Dr. Markus Reihlen, Institute of Management and Organization, Leuphana University of Lüneburg..

DKK 6,500

Management and Economics of Innovation - 5 ECTS

Monday 12 September 2022 at 09:00 to Thursday 22 September 2022 at 16:00 - Room TBA

The course aims to provide a set of advanced insights into the field of Management and Economics of Innovation spanning from foundational themes to the most recent developments of the field.

DKK 6,500

Institutional Organizational Analysis - Change and Transformation - 5 ECTS

Monday 5 September 2022 at 09:00 to Friday 9 September 2022 at 16:00 - Room TBA

Participants get insights into the historical development of organizational institutionalism and into the most recent approaches to organizational stability, change and transformation.

DKK 6,500

Introduction to Experiments in Economics and Management - 2 ECTS

Monday 5 September 2022 at 09:00 to Tuesday 6 September 2022 at 16:00 - Room TBA

The aim of this course is to offer insights related to the use of experiments in research projects in the area of economics and management. The specific focus of the course is to develop an understanding of how to design an experiment to answer...

DKK 2,600

Foucault: organization, technology, and subject-formation - 4 ECTS

Monday 27 June 2022 at 09:00 to Thursday 30 June 2022 at 16:00 - Room TBA

Achieve a strong reflexivity regarding how the choice of analytics from Foucault’s authorship brings certain questions, problems, entities and processes into the foreground of analysis and critical consideration.

DKK 5,200

Advanced Topics in Leadership Research (runs every 2 years) - 5 ECTS

Monday 20 June 2022 at 09:00 to Thursday 23 June 2022 at 16:00 - Room TBA

Engage with the field of leadership studies, acknowledging the variety of methodological and theoretical approaches, and formulate a valid research contribution to it. Critically discuss current issues in the field of leadership studies.

DKK 6,500

Advances in Marketing Strategy Research - HYBRID - 2,5 ECTS

Wednesday 8 June 2022 at 09:00 to Thursday 9 June 2022 at 16:00 - Room TBA

The course aims to: provide knowledge on emerging trends in marketing strategy, yield insights into how to successfully publish in marketing strategy research, and teach about emerging methodological approaches in marketing strategy research.

DKK 3,250

QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS SEMINAR (SPRING 2022) (cancelled)

Monday 23 May 2022 at 09:00 to Monday 6 June 2022 at 16:00 - Room TBA

The Qualitative Research Methods course is designed for doctoral students who are interested in pursuing qualitative research projects in the social sciences.

DKK 7,800

Advanced Econometrics - 7,5 ECTS

Tuesday 26 April 2022 at 09:00 to Thursday 2 June 2022 at 16:00 - Room TBA

After the course, students shall be able to: • demonstrate knowledge of the concepts, models, methods and tools of econometrics as discussed during the course (when to apply what and why) , • read and understand international research papers.

DKK 9,750

Applied Quantitative Methods for Non-quantitative Doctoral Researchers in Organization and Management Studies - 3+2 (Incl add-on: + 1 ECTS)

Monday 16 May 2022 at 09:00 to Friday 20 May 2022 at 16:00 - Room TBA

The course provides students with some fundamental theoretical and hands-on knowledge about quantitative methods in Stata. It does so in a pedagogic context that recognizes the complementarity between qualitative and quantitative methods.

DKK 3,900

Advances in Strategic Management - 4 ECTS

Monday 16 May 2022 at 09:00 to Thursday 19 May 2022 at 16:00 - Room TBA

The aim of this course is to offer advanced insights related to the theoretical and empirical recent developments in the area of Strategic Management, with a specific focus on economic and organizational theories of Strategy and International Busines

DKK 5,200

Theorizing Materiality – Spring 2022 - ONLINE - 4 ECTS

Monday 25 April 2022 at 09:00 to Thursday 12 May 2022 at 16:00 - Room TBA

This seminar course explores the motivations behind the increasing interest in understanding the role that the materiality of bodies, spaces and things especially technologies play in social research and how materiality can be theorized more explicit

DKK 5,200

Research Methodology in Organization and Management Analyses - 5 ECTS

Monday 2 May 2022 at 09:00 to Friday 6 May 2022 at 16:00 - Room TBA

The course focuses on the entire PhD process from the formulation of research question(s) to the use of theory, the generation and analysis of data, and the composition of the thesis.

DKK 6,500

Social Science Research Approaches: A Toolbox for Empirical Designs - 5 ECTS

Monday 25 April 2022 at 09:00 to Friday 29 April 2022 at 16:00 - Room TBA

The interlinkage between theory and research design is in focus when this course introduces PhD students to the core approaches constituting social science research approaches. We will focus in particular on conceptual analysis and case-selection.

DKK 6,500

Quantitative Measurement and Analysis (Spring 2022) - ONLINE - 6 ECTS

Wednesday 23 March 2022 at 09:00 to Thursday 21 April 2022 at 16:00 - Room TBA

The Quantitative Measurement and Analysis course is designed for doctoral students who are interested in pursuing quantitative research projects in social sciences.

DKK 7,800

Case-Study Approaches to Theory Building - April 2022 - 5 ECTS

Monday 4 April 2022 at 09:00 to Friday 8 April 2022 at 16:00 - Room TBA

The course aims to equip students with the ability to read, write and evaluate papers applying qualitative methodologies, and to understand how qualitative research and case-study research in particular can contribute to theory building.

DKK 6,500

Empirical Asset Pricing - 5 ECTS

Wednesday 2 March 2022 at 09:00 to Thursday 31 March 2022 at 16:00 - Room TBA

The aim of the class is to introduce Ph.D. students in finance and related fields to empirical asset pricing research methods.

DKK 6,500

Hands-on Qualitative Methods - Spring 2022 - (runs annually) - 5 ECTS

Monday 21 March 2022 at 09:00 to Friday 25 March 2022 at 16:00 - Room TBA

This course serves as a basic primer for PhD students on how to conduct solid qualitative research as well as on major considerations that researchers need to reflect upon when aspiring to conduct qualitative research with quality.

DKK 6,500

Advances in IT Management Seminar 2022 - 2 ECTS

Friday 18 February 2022 at 09:00 to Friday 25 March 2022 at 16:00 - Room TBA

This introductory course highlights a selection of contemporary central topics in information systems research. It is designed to familiarize doctorate students with the main research streams and contributing scholars of IS research.

DKK 2,600

Foundations of Entrepreneurship - 5 ECTS

Monday 14 February 2022 at 09:00 to Monday 21 March 2022 at 16:00 - Room TBA

The main goal of the course is to increase familiarity with and develop an in-depth understanding of the key themes and empirical research methods of entrepreneurship.

DKK 6,500

SOCIAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL THEORIES OF TRANSFORMATION - 4 ECTS

Monday 14 March 2022 at 09:00 to Friday 18 March 2022 at 16:00 - Room TBA

We live in a world defined by crises and transformation. Environmental degradation, climate crisis, financial crisis, populism, Covid-19, falling legitimacy of political and economic elites and institutions, just to mention a few.

DKK 5,200

Publishing Journal Articles in Business, Management and Organization Studies - 4 ECTS

Monday 7 March 2022 at 09:00 to Thursday 10 March 2022 at 16:00 - Room TBA

The aim of this course is to take participants through the process of journal publication. There are two aspects to this. First, considering the nature of academic knowledge production (using (and being used by) concepts, categories, methods etc..)

DKK 5,200

Getting my research into journals - 1,5 ECTS

Wednesday 2 March 2022 at 09:00 to Thursday 3 March 2022 at 16:00 - Room TBA

Continuous publishing in academic journals has increasingly become not only a criterion for initial employment, subsequent tenure, and possible promotion, but also a necessity for most academics employed by universities and business schools. 

DKK 1,950

Empirical Finance: Identification Strategies in Corporate Finance - 2,5 ECTS

Wednesday 23 February 2022 at 09:00 to Thursday 24 February 2022 at 16:00 - Room TBA

The aim of the class to introduce Ph.D. students in finance and related fields to identification strategies in corporate finance.

DKK 3,250

International Business: State-of-the art theories, methods and topics - 5 ECTS

Monday 24 January 2022 at 09:00 to Friday 28 January 2022 at 16:00 - Room TBA

The course aims to offer a systematic foundational knowledge of the theoretical building blocks of international business research, the most updated debates on theories and methods, and an overview of topics and areas of research in the field.

DKK 6,500

SPACE AND DOING SPATIAL RESEARCH IN ORGANIZATION, MANAGEMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP STUDIES - 3 ECTS

Monday 24 January 2022 at 09:00 to Wednesday 26 January 2022 at 16:00 - Room TBA

The aim of the course is to equip doctoral students with an interdisciplinary understanding of spatial thought and current strands and methods of spatial theorizing, and of how organization needs to take place in order to happen.

DKK 3,900

About CBS PhD School


Copenhagen Business School (CBS) offers a range of PhD courses, covering the scientific disciplines of the school. The courses include research design, publication techniques, research methods such as qualitative or quantitative methods, and specialisation courses in eg. organisational analysis, marketing and political science.

Most courses are organised as intensive week-long courses, but other formats are applied as well. The courses are open to PhD students from other countries and institutions, but some prerequisites may apply. Please see the individual course descriptions.

The PhD courses are offered in English and are for PhD students only.

Contact Information


CBS PhD School
Solbjerg Plads 3
2000 Frederiksberg

Phone Number: +45 3815 2475
E-mail: phdsupport@cbs.dk
Website: www.cbs.dk