PhD in administration - Information Technology

Are you planning on an academic career in the management of information technology?

Do your PhD in a milieu dedicated to research and innovation, in an internationally renowned community of professors and researchers.

Your PhD in short

• Offered by HEC Montréal jointly with Concordia and McGill universities and the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). This partnership gives you access to resources (faculty and courses) rarely available elsewhere in the world.
• Full-time program allowing you to complete your studies in four or five years.
• Tuition fees waived and competitive funding for the first four years of your studies.

�For a career in academia

The 21 graduates from this doctoral program between 2010 and 2021 hold research positions. Among them, 19 obtained an assistant professor position at a university before or right after graduating.

“I had 10 years of industry experience behind me, but no knowledge whatsoever of the world of academia, and zero publications. The program exceeded my expectations… ultimately landing a tenure-track position in the best place for me.”

�Among the best

Students in this doctoral specialization publish their research findings in the world’s top information systems management journals, including:

• European Journal of Information Systems
• Information Systems Journal
• Information Systems Research
• Journal of Management Information Systems
• Journal of Strategic Information Systems
• Journal of the Association for Information Systems
• Management Information Systems Quarterly

Thanks to these publications, HEC Montréal placed 2^nd in Canada and 28^th in the world in the 2018-2021 My Vision Research ranking.

Widely varied research interests

Our PhD students and candidates

See the list of students in this specialization on Google Scholar.

World-class IT research groups

HEC Montréal offers doctoral students in information technology an exceptional scientific milieu headed up by GReSI, a research group of renowned scholars, including five chairs and four professorships.

Chairs

• Chair in Strategic Management of Information Technology, directed by Professor Suzanne Rivard, Fellow of the Association for Information Systems (AIS) and Senior Editor emeritus of Management Information Systems Quarterly

• Research Chair in Digital Health, directed by Professor Guy Paré

• NSERC-Prompt Industrial Research Chair in User Experience, directed by Professor Pierre-Majorique Léger

• Canada Research Chair in Digital Communication and Multitasking, directed by Professor Ann-Frances Cameron

• Canada Research Chair in Enterprise Social Media and Digital Collaboration, directed by Professor Wietske Van Osch

Research professorships

• Research professorship in strategy and management information systems: Professor Ana Ortiz de Guinea Lopez de Arana

• Research professorship in technology and aging: Professor Stefan Tams

• Research professorship in development and use of information systems: Professor Bogdan Negoita

• Research professorship in responsible adoption and diffusion of information technologies: Professor Camille Grange

Be part of innovations in research and education

HEC Montréal is home to Tech3Lab, the largest user-experience (UX) laboratory in North America. It’s a unique milieu for advanced research in human-machine interaction and the user experience.
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