The Aalto BIZ Organizational Communication unit offers a four-year program of doctoral research training in organizational communication that equips doctoral researchers with the necessary skills, knowledge, and resources to conduct impactful research and succeed in the world of academia. The program is specifically designed for dedicated full-time students.
We continuosly develop our curriculum to ensure that our graduates have a a strong foundation in the theories, frameworks, and concepts that underpin organizational communication research and a solid understanding of the principes and practices of qualitative research.
We encourage our students to draw insights from multiple fields of scholarship, not only from management and organization studies but also from sociology, psychology, anthropology, philosophy, arts, and gender studies, for example.
We are also committed to helping our students develop their skills in academic writing and public speech, so that they can publish their work in reputable journals and effectively disseminate their research results to both academic and practitioner audiences.
Doctoral degree requirements and curriculum
Each doctoral student is assigned a Dissertation Advisory Committee consisting of three dedicated scholars who are deeply committed to guiding and mentoring their students throughout their doctoral journey, from admission to graduation and even into the early stages of their postdoctoral professional development.
All of our supervising professors and advisors are internationally recognized scholars who have published their research in some of the leading journals in our multidisciplinary field, such as Human Relations, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Studies, Journal of Business Ethics, Work, Employment and Society, Organization and Gender, Work & Organization.
They also serve in the editorial boards of many leading journals, scuh as Human Relations, Journal of Business Ethics, and Work, Employment and Society.
Research expertise in the unit of Organizational Communication lies in areas that include:
Business-society relations and corporate social responsibility
Gender and feminist studies, diversity and inclusion
Strategy and discursive leadership
Qualitative methods, especially discursive approaches and (n)ethnography
During the first and second year of studies, full-time doctoral students who make satisfactory progress in their studies and research are guaranteed an annual gross income of about 29.000€, based on a combination of 50% employment contract and 50% personal grants. The employment contract provides students with occupational health care, paid annual leave, as well as a pension contribution, a computer, and a communal working space with large screens and adjustable tables.
There is also funding for doctoral researchers to participate in international conferences (e.g., EGOS, Academy of Management, ICA), seminars, and workshops.
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Check out the research profiles of our faculty to see whose research interests match yours:
Our postdocs typically serve on the dissertation advisory committees of our doctoral students, and we also recruit external scholars as committee members.
If you are interested in pursuing a doctoral degree in organizational communication, please contact the Head of Doctoral Studies Assistant Professor Paula Koskinen Sandberg or one of the faculty members listed as thesis advisors above.
Please note that we are currently only accepting applications from individuals who are interested in full-time doctoral researcher positions.
We normally recruit new doctoral researchers once a year, starting in December. Detailed information about the application process for our doctoral program and online applications may be found at the admissions page of the Doctoral program in Business, Economics, and Finance.
Apply now - advance your career with a doctoral degree in business. Doctoral Programme in Business, Economics and Finance is a four-year, English-language doctoral programme offered by Aalto University School of Business - one of Europe’s leading business schools. The program provides rigorous, high-quality research training in a collaborative academic culture that values intellectual independence, critical inquiry, and low hierarchy.
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Meet the faculty and doctoral students of Organizational Communication.
Research and teaching in the unit of Organizational Communication focuses on the social and communicative practices through which organizations, communities, and societies are managed and organized. The unit has a unique research profile in interdisciplinary organizational communication studies.
