Commerce

Head, the Business School: Associate Professor Barry Burgan

Academic enquiries: Dr Jean Canil
Associate Head (Research)
Phone: 61 8 8303 5534
Fax: 61 8 8303 4368
Email: research.business@adelaide.edu.au

Enrolment enquiries: on matters regarding eligibility, process and scholarships should be addressed to the Adelaide Graduate Centre.
Phone: 61 8 8303 5882
Email: graduate.centre@adelaide.edu.au

Research Awards
Academic program	Duration	Annual fee domestic	Annual fee international 2009 ¹	Start date	Mode of study	Prerequisite qualifications
Doctor of Philosophy in Business	up to 4 years	RTS*	$21,000	Feb/Jul	Internal, remote	Honours IIA degree or equiv.
Master of Commerce	up to 2 years	RTS*	$25,000	Feb/July	Internal, full / part time	Honours IIA degree or equiv.
Doctor of Philosophy in Commerce +	up to 4 years	RTS*	$25,000	Feb/July	See the Adelaide Graduate Centre	Honours IIA degree or equiv.

+ The Master of Business Research provides research training for students who complete a postgraduate coursework degree (Master of Commerce, Master of Accounting and Finance, Master of Business Administration, Master of Finance and Business Economics, or equivalent coursework masters) and who wish to go on to undertake research leading to a PhD.

* Research Training Scheme (RTS) - Currently all commencing "local" higher degree by research students at the University of Adelaide are awarded a Research Training Scheme (RTS) place. The RTS place entitles the student to a maximum period of four years of tuition fee exempt candidature to undertake a PhD program or two years of tuition fee exempt candidature to undertake a Masters program. This means there is no HECS debt at the end of the program.
"local" includes Australian citizens or permanent residents and New Zealand citizens.

International
¹ The quoted fee is a base fee that will be subject to an annual increase of up to 3% (5% from 2009 and later) for each of the subsequent years in the program for the duration published on this site. Students completing the program beyond the maximum published period will be subject to a new base fee.

About the School

The Business School supports and conducts leading research that impacts on both the domestic and international research and business communities. Each candidate works independently on a major research project under the supervision of, normally, two academic staff with relevant expertise. The candidate's research culminates in a major thesis which is examined by two national or international examiners appointed by the University of Adelaide.

Research within the School focuses on the following main disciplines:

Accounting and Information Systems

Accounting and gender
Accounting and professional ethics
Accounting education
Accounting regulation
Auditing
Budgetary planning and control
Financial accounting
Financial disclosure and segment reporting
Information systems
Management accounting
Not-for-profit management and accounting
Public sector management and accounting

Finance

Asset pricing
Banking
Behavioural finance
Capital structure
Computational finance
Corporate diversification
Corporate governance
Corporate risk management
Derivatives markets
Dividend policy
Executive compensation
Fixed income securities
Funds management
Insurance
International finance
Market efficiency
Real estate finance
Trading strategies

Management

Corporate strategy
East Asian business
Entrepreneurship
Ethics
Family business/SMEs
Human resource management
International business
Leadership
Mergers and acquisitions
Organisation theory and change
Organisational behaviour
Organisational sustainability
Strategic management, alliances and networks
Technology and innovation management

Marketing

Business networks and inter-organisational theory
Business relationships
Consumer behaviour
Marketing and sub-cultures
Marketing communications, advertising and media
Strategic marketing
Wine distribution
Wine marketing