Call for PhD Applications : Evaluating the Impact of Sustainable Business Models in Africa (14416)
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Call for PhD Applications : Evaluating the Impact of Sustainable Business Models in Africa (14416)
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Call for PhD Applications:Evaluating the Impact of Sustainable Business Models in Africa
PhD Supervisors:
Dr. Dirk Michael Boehe (Full Professor in Strategic Management)
Funding: 4-year doctoral contract starting in October 2025
Location: Rabat Morocco
Prerequisites: Master degree in Business & Management Collective Intelligence
Engineering Economics (and fields of research related to the project)prior research experience.
Application process: description
The projects overarching aim consists of contributing to the development of business models that realize multipleeconomic social and environmentalsustainability goals within the African context. Accordingly this OCP Foundation funded project has both a scientific and an applied nature as it seeks to contribute to educational and business transformation alongside producing scientific impact. The PhD candidate will be part of an interdisciplinary project team and create new knowledge on the underlying principles and mechanisms that allow firms to simultaneously pursue and achieve multiple sustainability goals.
Doctoral Research Topic
The literature related to this topic is still developing and interested candidates are encouraged to familiarize themselves with it drawing on (but not limited to) the following sources:
Aguilera R. V. De Massis A. Fini R. & Vismara S. (2024). Organizational Goals Outcomes and the Assessment of Performance: Reconceptualizing Success in Management Studies. Journal of Management Studies 61(1) 136.
Angrist J. D. & Pischke J.-S. (2014). Mastering Metrics: The Path from Cause to Effect. Princeton University Press.
Battilana J. Obloj T. Pache A. C. & Sengul M. (2022). Beyond shareholder value maximization: Accounting for financial/social trade-offs in dual-purpose companies. Academy of Management Review 47(2) 237-258.
Hu S. & Bettis R. A. (2018). Multiple organization goals with feedback from shared technological task environments. Organization Science 29(5) 873-889.
Imbens G. W. & Rubin D. B. (2015). Causal Inference for Statistics Social and Biomedical Sciences: An Introduction. Cambridge University Press.
Sterman J. (2002). System Dynamics: systems thinking and modeling for a complex world. Irwin/McGraw-Hill.
The successful candidate will accompany the different phases of above-mentioned project collect and analyze primary and secondary data on sustainable business model from different African countries write up several manuscripts for high-quality academic journals transfer the results to education technology application and conduct large-scale tests using experimental designs among other activities.
Research Questions
Which factors shape the environmental social and financial impact of sustainable business models
How can sustainable business models and their associated risks and opportunities be effectively simulated
Skills
You have a solid academic background excellent English skills and experience in at least one of the following research skills: quantitative research experimental designs systems dynamics and simulations. You have strong analytical skills; you are self-motivated and you are able to deliver high-quality output under severe time pressure and you are resilient to stress and setbacks.
Supervisor information
Dr. Boehe is Full Professor of Strategic Management at Africa Business School (ABS). Before joining ABS Dirk held full-time faculty positions as professor of international business at Massey University New Zealand the University of Adelaide Australia Insper Brazil and the University of Fortaleza Brazil. He held several academic leadership roles such as Director of the Master of International Business and of the PhD Program (University of Adelaide; ABS) Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies in Business Administration and Director of the Postgraduate Program in Business Administration (Brazil). In addition he gained industry experience in international logistics export advising and market research among others. Dirk has published over 40 studies in prestigious international journals as well as books and book chapters (see his profile here).
Application Deadline:
June 30th 2025.
Contact Information:
For inquiries and application submissions please contact
Website: ABS :
Africa Business School supports the transformation of organizations through Research Advisory and Learning. Our goal is toimpactthe operating models of your organization bysupportingindividuals through this in 2016 with the aim of being the leading business school in Africa specializing in Research Advisory and LearningABS is the business school ofMohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P).Dedicated to creatingthe continents future leadersthrough training research and innovation ABS aspires to make learners confident inresponding to the most crucial challenges facing Africaand the world. Africa Business School introduces a different perspective to leadership with a hybrid approach to teaching centered on the human being. All of its programs take a holistic approach aiming for the participants to develop analytical and practical skills both quantitative and qualitative cognitive and emotional managerial and technological. A cornerstone of their studies is training them on their sense of responsibility to society tobe culturally and socially responsible leaders.
Employment Type
Full Time
