With the promised breakthrough and convergence of different branches of AI technology (e.g. transformer models, proximal policy optimization, retrieval augmented AI, agents), new general-purpose tools have emerged (e.g. ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, Mistral). What are the implications of these tools for research, critical thinking, publication processes, training, supervision and evaluation for doctoral students?
The reality for some is Generative AI is going to be a friend, for others this is all about Degenerative AI that is more a foe, undermining critical thinking and a better future for research degrees and their program Directors, doctoral students and their supervisors.
While many universities and schools have set up initiatives to address these questions management scholars and PhD candidates still face considerable uncertainty. When does AI really help and when it is just snake-oil? How to ensure that we, as degree program directors and supervisors help PhD students not to fall into counter-productive traps?
EDAMBA like EIASM has put a premium on quality of doctoral education and the role of supervisory teams remains central in ensuring a responsible and enhanced learning environment for doctoral programs, both PhD and DBA.
Our novel EDAMBA DBA Accreditation project (DBA-AP) has advanced distinctive standards and processes for ecosystem value creation and network impact beyond individual and traditional accreditations that are institution-centric and backward looking.
This 14th EDAMBA – EIASM Consortium will provide a venue for further discussion and reflections on this community driven impact assessment measuring societal and economic value with community leaders integrated from the early critical phases of DBA-AP’s development.
Further the unprecedented levels of fragmentation and divergence in terms of national and regulatory policies in the EU, and between Europe, the USA, and beyond, including high levels of economic, demographic, social and geopolitical uncertainty, are combined with the evolution of slow moving but consequential biophysical and social variables (e.g. demography and climate change). What are the implications of these global / glocal challenges for doctoral education in management and related disciplines?
The 14th edition of the winter EDAMBA-EIASM consortium specifically aims to help. PhD/DBA directors, senior and junior supervising faculty tackling these issues by bringing together participants from different countries of our global network, as well as different institutional settings, level of experience and expertise in doctoral supervision, building on evidence based knowledge.
A key premise of the consortium, as in previous editions, is that informed conversations across programs backed by:
- PhD directors, senior faculty and junior faculty exchanges from a broad range of management and business studies
- evidence-based knowledge from adjacent fields (e.g. education research, computer science and engineering)
- conversation with journal editors.
- Practical cases both leading to successful completion, or failure and withdrawal from doctoral study.
can all help us to put in perspective our own practices and make choices that are most adapted to our own specific individual institutional context and field of research.
Experienced faculty reflect on numerous successful completions as well as problem cases, and how they deal with the challenges of professionalization for both PhD and DBA candidates across multiple career paths.
Junior faculty participating in the consortium interact in a safe environment and learn from experienced faculty about different perspectives on supervision beyond their specific experiences with their former supervisors across different schools. It is an opportunity to learn about how to socialize candidates into co-authorship, evolving editorial processes, collaborating with other supervisors across disciplinary boundaries,
Program directors reflect on their experiences and learn about supervisory practices in other institutions and the transformation of doctoral education across national boundaries, especially with the rise of AI and related emerging technologies. Enhancing quality and accreditation of DBA programs is an important project for our community that this Consortium with provide a unique and timely opportunity to build bridges for impactful research across boundaries.
You are requested to make your own hotel arrangement.
ESADE Barcelona Building 3 is within walking distance (10 minutes walk) of the following hotel and residence:
1. HOTEL AC SUITE VICTORIA.
ESADE implant travel agency El Corte Inglés can help you in making your hotel arrangement delegates can benefit from ESADE negotiated rates, either. Note that they charge a fee of around 20 €. Please contact lucy.mori@eiasm.be
2. RESA Torre Girona Graduate Hall of Residence has a few en-suite accommodations.
We look forward to meeting you in Barcelona!