Structure of the Doctorate in International Business (Online).
The Professional Doctorate in International Business has three parts:
Coursework. Study of the Subjects (Training activity) of the Doctorate: minimum 20 ECTS, maximum 60 ECTS
The Students are required to take a range of courses of the doctorate
The Doctoral Students must perform a training activity (training complement) consisting of some subjects defined according to their previous studies and the selected research area
The Doctorate Supervisor determines the complementary training according to the field of investigation
The exact content of said complement will be made from each specific
case, since the specific needs of each doctoral student will be addressed
The Doctoral Students can choose the subjects from those offered by EENI with a minimum of 20 ECTS and a maximum of 60 ECTS
Research Work and Thesis Plan (40 ECTS).
With the support of the Thesis Supervisor (Director), the Doctoral Student must perform the appropriate research that will lead to the
realization of his thesis plan
The Doctoral Student must prepare and submit a thesis plan, which, as a minimum, should include the provisional thesis title, objectives pursued, methodology to be used, means and schedule
The Doctoral Student must study the “Research methodology” module, which will introduce to the thesis preparation method
Thesis and Thesis Defense (120 ECTS).
Under the supervision of the Thesis Supervisor, the Doctoral Student develops and presents the research results
The Doctoral Student can select their subject areas within the research
parameters proposed by EENI, creating a thesis
that must be completely original and own, which will be published on the EENI platform set up for this purpose
The Directorate may authorise the thesis deposit like a compendium of publications if the requirements established by the Directorate are fulfilled
The defense of the thesis is done by videoconference.
EENI recommends to the students of the Professional Doctorate in International Business (DIB) working in international business-related position,
to select a
research topic related to their jobs. It is desirable that his academic work within the Professional Doctorate is part of his work in the company.
A Thesis Director is assigned to each student, who has overall responsibility for conduct of all the research work of the candidate, and a
tutor, responsible for training adequacy and research
activities.
Thesis Supervisor will guide the student in thesis planning; he is the ultimately responsible for the consistency and novelty of the thesis