PhD in Management (Practice Track)

The PhD in Management (Practice Track) of the Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIMK) has commenced from the academic year 2019-20. IIM Kozhikode considers management practice as a dominant source of knowledge creation in management science. Consequently, the IIMs see the PhD Programmes as a crucial source of management researchers and faculty resources of top quality both to the academic institutions including IIMs and to the industry, business, government and society.

This programme provides rigorous, world-class, inter-disciplinary training in different areas of business management to equip students with the ability to conduct cutting-edge research of international standard. The executive participants of this programme enrich business knowledge armed with their industry experience and academic exposure.

The aim of the programme is to help industry executives explore research based careers at both academic institutions as well as research roles in public/private sector organizations.