State Doctoral Examination

Final Doctoral Examination Instructions

A student who fulfills all requirements for applying to take his/her Final Doctoral Exam should appear in a student office during working hours and submit :

  • Completed State Doctoral Examination Application Form (application form [doc])
  • Study Advisor’s (Supervisor’s) Final Report on the study and research activity of the Candidate (signed by the study advisor). The Report should be created by a Study Advisor (Supervisor) together with the doctoral student and should include the doctoral studies so far,example [doc]
  • List of publications (signed by both the PhD student and Supervisor) example [doc]
  • Submit three (3) bound copies of the dissertation thesis (extent: 40 pages) signed by the PhD student. Before submitting, the text must be approved by the Supervisor.
  • One copy of the dissertation should be sent via e-mail to adriana.valova@vse.cz

The PhD student must submit all materials at least 4 weeks before the State Doctoral Exam (SDZ).

Terms 

Department Date Time Room Notes
Department of Logistics
Department of Marketing
Department of Strategy
Department of Human Resource Management
Department of Entrepreneurship 20. 11. 2019  9:00  RB 359  Diener
Department of Management
Department of Managerial Psychology and Sociology
Department of Microeconomics

Topics of State Doctoral Examination

  • 1.       Logic and intuition in strategic thinking.
    2.      Profitability and responsibility. The purpose of existence of a company. Defining the basic strategic considerations.
    3.      Business opportunities generated by markets and by internal resources.
    4.      Independence of business units and corporate synergies as a whole.
    5.      Competition and cooperation between organizations in the markets. Cooperative strategies, game theory from a business perspective.
    6.      Deliberateness and emergence in strategy formation.
    7.      Revolutionary and evolutionary view of strategic change.
    8.     Exploitation and exploration in strategic innovations.
    9.      Compliance and choice within the industry context.
    10.  Control and chaos within the organizational context.
    11.   Globalization and localization.

    • Economics [PDF] valid from January 1st 2013