2000
DOI: 10.1108/00400910010362914
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The DBA: form and function

Abstract: This article is about the Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) degrees that were developed in the UK during the 1990s. It looks at the range of programme structures, content and learning support used. The article is based on a content analysis of the 16 DBA programmes in the UK at the end of 1999. The main conclusion is that there is a tension in the form and function of DBAs through their relationship with the traditional PhD. The tension is captured in the question: To what extent do programme developers … Show more

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“…The Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) remains new in the UK but is on the increase, in response to dissatisfaction in the business sector with the traditional PhD (Bourner, Ruggeri-Stevens and Bareham, 2000). A number of US institutions have developed Doctorates in Public Administration (DPA) (Sherwood, 1996;Brewer et al, 1999), although the need for a degree distinct from the PhD is contested (Hambrick, 1997) and the DPA has yet to appear in the UK.…”
Section: Diversity Of Provision -Emergence Of New Forms Of Doctoratementioning
confidence: 99%
“…The Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) remains new in the UK but is on the increase, in response to dissatisfaction in the business sector with the traditional PhD (Bourner, Ruggeri-Stevens and Bareham, 2000). A number of US institutions have developed Doctorates in Public Administration (DPA) (Sherwood, 1996;Brewer et al, 1999), although the need for a degree distinct from the PhD is contested (Hambrick, 1997) and the DPA has yet to appear in the UK.…”
Section: Diversity Of Provision -Emergence Of New Forms Of Doctoratementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Sekhon (1989) and Trigwell et al (1997, p. 6) advocated that doctoral programmes need to become more industry-oriented and include personal relationship training, practical problem solving, and a strengthened relationship between industry and higher education institutions. Professional doctorates like the DBA intend to achieve most if not all of these imperatives, as has been shown in other countries offering the DBA, such as the UK (Bourner et al, 2000). As Bourner et al (2000, p. 494) assert, "[the DBA] is a programme of research-based management development aimed at developing the capacity to make a significant original contribution to management practice".…”
Section: Research Contributions Of the Dba And Phdmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The DBA is mostly offered through part-time delivery, completed over 3–6 years to enable students to continue to work full-time (Bourner et al, 2000), and is classified as a research degree. While some variance is found, training in areas such as research design skills, research philosophy and methodology is provided alongside action learning sets to facilitate dialogue between students, in addition to the appointment of a supervisory team (Bourner et al, 2000). Assessment usually occurs throughout the programme via a number of specific documents with later documents assessed through a viva voce (Ruggeri-Stevens et al, 2001).…”
Section: The Dbamentioning
confidence: 99%