PhD Courses in Denmark

The process of theorizing and theory building in management research

Description:

This is a generic, interdisciplinary, 5 ECTS PhD course. It aims to acquaint PhD students with the process of theorizing and theory building. We start from the premise that it is critical for DCs, regardless of their disciplines, research projects, progress, to master the craft of theorizing and theory building. By the end of the course the PhD candidates will have gained skills and knowledge in (a) gaining sensitivity to theoretical development during the literature review process, and (b) analyzing and theorizing from qualitative data.

Every year our course gathers together PhD students with diverse, multidisciplinary research interests: https://www.tbrp.business.aau.dk/doctoral-training/testimonials.

These are examples of research areas doctoral researchers bring to the course:

• Talent management in the financial sector: The impact of management quality in large commercial banks
• Innovation in sustainability-driven business modeling strategies: a study on apparel business systems in Bangladesh
• Revisiting Supply Chain Flows: A Road Map Through Paradox Theory
• Coopetition and Business Performance in Service Ecosystems: The case from stakeholder perspective
• The innovation chain and its influencing factors based on Big Science
• Innovation Impact of Big Science Organizations: Conditions, Interactions, and Knowledge Spillover
• Inter-organizational collaboration processes in digital forms of temporary organizing
• Strategic agility for digital entrepreneurship: Evidence from China
• Impact of Lean Supply Chain Management on business performance: The Role of the Context
• Cooperation and Competition in Innovation Ecosystems: A Complementors’ Perspective
• Explore the relationship between HQ and Subsidiaries in Danish MNEs
• Emerging Ecosystems of Educational Technology in Higher Learning: A Scope of Sociology of Technology
• Contextualizing Violence Prevention: Perspectives on How to Prevent Violence at Work
• Value Creation in Innovation Projects
• Indigenous approach to innovation in the context of China
• Innovating  the  Invisible  and  Intangible:  Value Creation in Service Innovation
• Explore how do fishing companies in the Faroe Islands approach strategy and innovation
• Investigation on Competitive Green Resources Products Business Model in Tanzania

 The course website: https://www.tbrp.business.aau.dk/doctoral-training/phd-courses/theorising-and-theory-building  

Programme outline:

See https://www.tbrp.business.aau.dk/doctoral-training/phd-courses/theorising-and-theory-building and https://phd.moodle.aau.dk/

Organizer:

Romeo V. Turcan

Lecturers:

Internal: 
Romeo V. Turcan

External:
Andy Lowe, Dr., Grounded Research Institute in California
Matthias Zach, Dr., Roche Diagnostics GmbH, Germany
Michal Lysek, Dr., Axis Communications, Finland

ECTS: 5

Time: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 November 2025

Place: Aalborg University Business School

City: Aalborg

Number of seats: 20

Deadlines:

DL1: October 6, 2025 - Application Essay submission. 
DL2: October 10, 2025 - Notification of acceptance
DL3: October 20, 2025 - Registration and payment of the course fee.