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The Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM) is the joint research institute of the Rotterdam School of Management and the Erasmus School of Economics, both at Erasmus University Rotterdam. It aims to bring together top researchers in business and management from each of these schools. Alongside its research program ERIM also has a graduate program in management designed to attract and train young scholars from around the world.

Mission
The mission of ERIM is to contribute to scientific research that enables organizations to assess and improve their business processes in order to perform in a profitable and responsible way. The research focus is on the firm in its environment, its intra- and inter-firm relations, its business processes in their independent connections and the management of these as an exclusive and distinctive scientific domain.

The concrete objectives of ERIM are:
 * 1) to carry out first rate research in management, as recognized by the community of peers,
 * 2) to offer an advanced graduate program in research in management.
 * 3) to impact business practice and the views of professionals and the public;

History
ERIM was founded in 1999. It modeled itself on the top American and European business schools such as Wharton Business School, Stanford Graduate School of Business, UCLA Anderson School of Management, London Business School, and INSEAD.

By 2010, ERIM has become one of the top three schools in business research in Europe, and is among the top 25 in the world. It has achieved a top ranking at the Social Science Research Network (SSRN), periodically ranking first outside the United States.

In the next decade, ERIM will focus on impacting business practice and the views of business professionals and the general public.

Research
Within ERIM, research in management is divided into five broad streams: marketing; finance and accounting; strategy; organization; and business processes, logistics and information systems.

Currently, more than 200 researchers are engaged in ERIM’s research programs. They are an international collection of researchers with backgrounds in business administration as well as other disciplines such as psychology, sociology, economics, econometrics and technical sciences.

Also under ERIM’s umbrella are more than 20 specialist research centers, focusing on topics as diverse as customer value chains, mutual and hedge funds, neuroeconomics, entrepreneurship, closed loop supply chains, sustainability, climate change, and business in China.

Doctoral program
As a graduate school, ERIM offers a five year doctoral program. The main goal of the program is to train promising students with academic ambitions to build competitive research profiles, so that they can attain faculty positions at top business schools around the world and become “thought leaders”.

The program consists of 2 years of advanced course work plus 3 years of dissertation work. After completing the two years of course work each student receives a Master title; the PhD degree is awarded after defending the dissertation. Candidates can enter the doctoral program at three different stages; in the first year on the basis of a Bachelor degree, in the second year on the basis on an MSc degree, and in the third year on the basis of a relevant MPhil degree. Selection criteria are designed to be challenging. Support in the form of funding is available.

PhD in Management
The ERIM PhD Program in Management is part of the doctoral program. To enter the program, an MPhil, MSc or MA degree is mandatory. In 2010, around 100 students from around 30 countries were enrolled in the PhD program.

ERIM offers two types of PhD Projects:


 * ERIM Predefined PhD Projects train future researchers in or across five key disciplines of management: business processes, logistics & information systems, organization, marketing, finance, and strategy. These projects are initiated each year.


 * ERIM Open PhD Projects are designed to give PhD candidates much freedom in choosing their own research topic. These open projects are financed with an endowment of 800,000 euros from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). ERIM was one of nine Dutch academic institutions who were awarded the grant in 2009, which was intended to give future doctoral students more say in the research to be carried out. A limited number of open projects was initiated in 2010.

Research Master in Business Research
The ERIM Master of Philosophy in Business Research is part of the doctoral programme. This Research Master is designed for academically talented and motivated students who wish to combine education in a specialization area of their choice with conducting research in that field.

External link

 * ERIM