Management Systems
An Integrative Doctoral Program
Contemporary management of the organization in its operations requires answers to problems
which now extend across more than one area of systems management. Answers are required which
take into account simultaneous human resource factors, information system requirements, product
design and production scheduling. Accordingly, there is a special strength, not answering all
professional needs, but rather answering a specific need which is important and not being met, in
turning out Ph.D's who can understand, teach, and consult with respect to an integrated view of the
management of organizations and their sub-systems.
An inter-disciplinary -- rather than multidisciplinary -- approach makes possible the transfer of
intellectual technology from one field to the next, a characteristic feature of some of today's
state-of-the-art advances in science.
All Management Systems students take an inter-disciplinary series of five core courses: Strategic
Decision Making and HRM, Quantitative Management Modeling, Information Technology,
Manufacturing Technology and Strategy, and Linear Statistical Models. These five courses are to
be taken in the first two years, and a qualifying examination which reviews the student's learning and
promise must be passed to continue into the third year of study.
Management Systems students also complete five required courses in an Area of Concentration,
which is defined by the student's dissertation interest. This can range from five courses in
management, computer information systems, or operations management, or five courses which
come altogether from two of these areas of study or at times also from outside the department. The
college requires a comprehensive examination in the area of concentration, as most if not all
doctoral programs elsewhere do. For Management Systems students, one third of the exam is
on a research paper which is of sufficient quality to be submitted to a top journal and which has in
fact been submitted for review. Finally, the students complete a doctoral minor related to their field
of research.
The entire program is overseen by the departmental Graduate Programs Committee, under the
direction of the departmental Graduate Coordinator.
Ph.D. in Management Systems
Departmentally Selected Courses
Course Title
B-AD 6/74007 Information Technology
B-AD 6/74047 Manufacturing Technology & Strategy
B-AD 6/74261 Strategic Decision Making & Human Resource Mgmt
Quantitative Tools
B-AD 6/74023 Linear Statistical Models
B-AD 6/74019 Quantitative Management Modeling
ECON 6/72050 Microeconomic Theory OR ECON 6/72051 Macroeconomic Theory
Area of Concentration (5 courses selected from the following, related to
proposed dissertation research, and by agreement with advisor, departmental
Graduate Programs Committee and Graduate Coordinator)
B-AD 6/74011 Systems Simulation
B-AD 6/74012 Scheduling and Planning
B-AD 6/74015 Stochastic Models
B-AD 6/74017 Multivariate Statistics
B-AD 6/74018 Mathematical Programming
B-AD 6/74020 Advanced Statistical Models
B-AD 6/74031 Quality and Reliability Systems
B-AD 6/74044 Production Control Systems
B-AD 6/74045 System Development Methodologies
B-AD 6/74046 Seminar in Computer Supported Collaborative Work
B-AD 6/74078 Emerging Information System Technology
B-AD 6/74080 Emerging Hardware & Software Technology
B-AD 6/74081 Data Communications & Networking In Business
B-AD 6/74096 Database Management Systems
B-AD 6/74108 Advanced Topics in Human Resource Mgmt & Organizational Behavior
B-AD 6/74260 Organization Theory
B-AD 6/74262 Competitive Strategic Analysis
B-AD 6/74282 Corporate Strategy & the Global Challenge
B-AD 6/74285 Managing High Technology
The Department of Management & Information Systems
College of Business Administration
Graduate School of Management
Kent State University
Kent, OH 44242-0001
(330) 672-2750
