Doctoral Research Work in Strategic Management: Perspectives for Executives & Parttime Candidates

Doctoral research is one of the main sources for knowledge in the subject domain of Strategic Management (SM). There is increased incidence of working executives pursuing part-time doctoral program. Such candidates with experience in business strategy are valuable because they bring substantive strategy related insights in the process of research. Theory development would be more grounded to the realities in their dissertations. However, such candidates are often uncertain regarding the research process path to be undertaken. The author in this article sets a roadmap through figures and tables. This would help such doctoral candidates to comprehend what is expected of them and what they need to do to attain their doctoral research destination with process efficacy and efficiency.