
About Programme
The Department of Business Administration is recognized as a research center to offer Ph.D. degree under VTU. The department has five Professors with rich academic and corporate experience to guide the research scholars. These Research guides together continue to add to their huge body of research through publications in national and international journals.
Research Centre has access to E learning recourses and Institutional membership with reputed Institutions like IIMBx, National Digital Library.. The Centre also has licensed Plagiarism software’s and Statistical packages to help the Scholars in their research analysis.
The areas of research include and are not limited to Marketing management, Human resource management, financial management, Operations management. Presently research is undertaken in the areas of Human Resource Practices, Stock Market, Banking, Social Networking & Digital Marketing.
Duration:
Full time Ph.D: Minimum 3 years
Part Time PhD: Minimum 4 years
The program involves Course Work, Comprehensive Viva, Open Seminars, Colloquium, Thesis Submission & Final Defence.
Research Center Candidate details
Guide name: Dr. G. Nagalingappa
| Sl. No. | Research Scholar Name | Year of Registration | Topic of Research |
| 1 | Princy Thomas | 2007 | Analysis of the Effectiveness of requirements for the said degree |
| 2 | Neetha K V | 2010 | Women Entrepreneurs Conflicts and Conflict Resolution Styles at Different stages of Business Development – A study on Women Entrepreneurs of Selected SMEs in and around Bengaluru |
Guide name: Dr. Pandu Naik
| Sl. No. | Research Scholar Name | Year of Registration | Topic of Research |
| 1 | Shaji Kurian | 2008 | Emerging Trends in Human Resource Strategies among SMEs in the light of Global Competition: With Special Reference to Machine Tool SMEs |
Guide name: Dr. L Vijayashree
| Sl. No. | Research Scholar Name | Year of Registration | Topic of Research |
| 1 | Deepali Jain | 2012 | The Impact of Occupational Stress On Attitude of IT employess during Strategic Alliances |
| 2 | Ibha Rani | 2013 | A Study of Efficiency of Indian Banks in the Post Liberalization Era |
| 3 | Charithra C M | 2015 | A study on Stock Market Volatily and Spillover Effect on Selected Developed and Emerging Asian Markets |
| 4 | Tripti Aravind | 2013 | Diversity Management Recruitment Practices in Information Technology Organisations |
| 5 | Sridhar K | 2015 | Performance Evaluation of Selected Housing Finacne Companies in India with Special Focus on Borrowers Satisfaction |
| 6 | C Prabhavathi | 2015 | Impact of Asset Liability Management on Banks Performance |
Guide name: Dr. N Mukund Sharma
| Sl. No. | Research Scholar Name | Year of Registration | Topic of Research |
| 1 | Maazuddin Khan | 2011 | Impact of E-Governance On Administration with Special Reference to Governance of Karnataka & its Employees |
| 2 | K chellamma | 2013 | Impact of Social Networking Sites on Selected Human Resource Practices of IT and ITES companies in Bengaluru |
| 3 | Sumukh S G | 2013 | Impact of Culture & Stress on Job Satisfaction with Special References to ITES Industry, Bangalore |
| 4 | Shishira Srinivasa | 2017 | A Study on Employees Perception, Attitude and Behaviour towards Work Stress and Its Management with Respect to Knowledge Process Outsourcing Industry in Bengaluru |
Guide name: Dr. Bhavya Vikas
| Sl. No. | Research Scholar Name | Year of Registration | Topic of Research |
| 1 | Santhosh K V | 2019 | A Study on Impact of Pschological Contract on Employee Engagement using Casual Loop Modeling |



