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mission statement

EUDOKMA - European Doctoral School on Knowledge and Management - is a European Consortium, which was founded in October 1999 by the following institutions: 

• Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

• ERASMUS University, the Netherlands

• ESADE, Spain

• Henley Management College, UK

• Kingston University, UK

• ISTUD, Italy

• Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration, Finland

• Uppsala University, Sweden

CERAM Sophia-Antipolis, France was accepted as a full EUDOKMA partner in 2002. Learning Lab Denmark, Frije Universiteit Amsterdam and Stockholm School of Economics are supporting members.

Click here to get the formal establishment agreement

One of the lines that converged towards the constitution of EUDOKMA was a long teamwork experience on international academic collaboration, developed by many of its members in EDAMBA - European Doctoral Association on Management and Business Administration. This association was created in 1991, and both institutions hold close relationships.

EUDOKMA's mission is to promote research programmes and doctoral training on Knowledge and Management. With these aims it studies the functions of knowledge in management, in the information society and in the new economy. It wishes to prepare doctoral students, who will be managers or academics, with a deep understanding of knowledge and learning. It offers, in a tessellated pattern of seminars, many points of view, which relate to knowledge creation, diffusion and applications with philosophical, epistemological and methodological issues.

For research stays in its centres, EUDOKMA was recognised as a Marie Curie Training Site by the European Commission, for the period 2001-2004.

object

With specifying the domain of the doctoral school to the field of knowledge and management we mean

• a focus on the understanding of the concept of knowledge

• a focus on management in a knowledge society and the special conditions and forms of management that emerges in such society

• a focus on the knowledge of managers; i.e. the knowledge of community of practice of managers

• the specific forms and conditions for the development, transfer and use of knowledge in society, in and between different sectors of industry, and private and public organizations.

• a focus on specific type of firms which can be called knowledge-intensive

joint effort

By joint effort we mean a commitment of the involved autonomous partner institutions to provide students, faculty and facilities to engage in the creation and design of

• shared research and educational agenda

• the development of common research projects

research environment

The European Doctoral School on Knowledge and Management strives to develop an environment that is intellectually rewarding and epistemologically distinctive and sophisticated .This environment should be characterized by a European eclecticism and multi-disciplinarity. This means an openness to different and complementary theoretical perspectives and research methodologies, as well as a support of an intellectual freedom of thought.

The school should make the students able to deal with issues that are specifically European, which denotes attention to and understanding of a cultural diversity and particularism where actors and their purposes, resources, boundaries and sovereignty are embedded in cultural material.

target groups

The program aims at attracting

• post graduate students who have an expressed interest in a commitment to the form of academic studies outlined

• teachers with renowned competence in the field

partners and organisation of the school

The doctoral school consists of a network of a limited number of partners that represent research environments with an academic standard:

• partners who represent complementary theoretical and methodological perspectives

• partners representing different European nationalities and cultural experiences

• partners representing different educational systems and forms