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    Business and Territorial Competitiveness, Innovation and Sustainability

    Admission requirements

    In addition to the general requirements to enter PhD programmes, these studies have specific requirements.

    Additional courses: content

    The content of the additional courses is as follows:

    Course 1: Theories and scientific bases applied to research on competitiveness, innovation and sustainability (12 ECTS credits)

    • Transaction cost theory
    • Agency theory
    • Evolutionary theory
    • Behavioural theory of the firm
    • Stakeholder theory
    • Game theory
    • Resource-based view
    • Knowledge-based view
    • Dynamic capabilities
    • Additional theoretical developments related to competitiveness, innovation and sustainability
    • Analysis, criticism and synthesis of theory contributions
    • Propositions and hypotheses: generation, logic and premises
    • Monitoring propositions


    Course 2: Research methods and dissemination of results applied to academic research (12 ECTS credits).

    • Epistemology of Science
    • Information sources
    • Questionnaires as tools to collect primary data
    • Fundamentals of quantitative research methods
      • Variable types and codification
      • Descriptive analysis
      • Contrast hypothesis testing
      • Fundamentals of linear and multiple regression
      • Discriminant analysis
    • Factorial analysis and automatic classification
    • Fundamentals of qualitative research methods
      • Case studies
      • Action research
    • Fundamentals of academic writing

     

    Admission requirements

    In addition to the general requirements to enter PhD programmes, these studies have specific requirements.

    Additional courses: content

    The content of the additional courses is as follows:

    Course 1: Theories and scientific bases applied to research on competitiveness, innovation and sustainability (12 ECTS credits)

    • Transaction cost theory
    • Agency theory
    • Evolutionary theory
    • Behavioural theory of the firm
    • Stakeholder theory
    • Game theory
    • Resource-based view
    • Knowledge-based view
    • Dynamic capabilities
    • Additional theoretical developments related to competitiveness, innovation and sustainability
    • Analysis, criticism and synthesis of theory contributions
    • Propositions and hypotheses: generation, logic and premises
    • Monitoring propositions


    Course 2: Research methods and dissemination of results applied to academic research (12 ECTS credits).

    • Epistemology of Science
    • Information sources
    • Questionnaires as tools to collect primary data
    • Fundamentals of quantitative research methods
      • Variable types and codification
      • Descriptive analysis
      • Contrast hypothesis testing
      • Fundamentals of linear and multiple regression
      • Discriminant analysis
    • Factorial analysis and automatic classification
    • Fundamentals of qualitative research methods
      • Case studies
      • Action research
    • Fundamentals of academic writing