The main objectives of the joint doctoral study programme Governance and Economics in the Public Sector
The programme is intended for candidates who work or wish to work in workplaces that require scientific research in the field of administration and business in the public sector, which involves the study, creation, development and application of new methodologies, technologies and skills in the administration and business sciences. In the first two years of the study, the programme provides students with the required theoretical-scientific and methodological administrative-legal, organizational, economic, managerial and IT knowledge required for solving the most complex research and practical issues in the selected areas. Students apply this knowledge later to solve specific scientific-research problems in their doctoral thesis.
Joint doctoral study programme Governance and Economics in the Public Sector is important for:
– development of administrative sciences in Croatia and Slovenia, as it enables further transformation of administration towards modern democratically oriented administrations,
– development of administrative sciences for the operation of the public sector in Croatia and Slovenia,
– development of existing and new educational programmes and scientific research work in the field of administrative and business sciences and
– modernization of Croatian and Slovenian administrative and business practices in the public sector.
The joint doctoral study programme Public Sector Management and Economics aims to follow modern scientific research and development trends in administrative and business systems, in which new ideas public sector functioning, coming from an intersection of different fields – public sector management, economics, public finance, organization and informatics – are gaining ground as an upgrade of administrative law. Therefore, the study programme is designed to be highly interactive and multidisciplinary, which corresponds to the nature of scientific research on the one hand, and to the most demanding professional work on the other.
General Competencies (study results):
- Ability to assess, compare, evaluate and apply different research approaches in the scientific field of administrative and business science.
- Ability to assess and evaluate theoretical concepts in the field of administrative and business science.
- Ability to formulate, develop and propose solutions derived from theoretical concepts into practice.
- Ability to critically analyse, evaluate and synthesise complex ideas.
- Ability to plan, prepare and implement a large-scale research process.
- Ability to develop critical reflection and self-reflection in professional and research work.
- Ability to organise, make decisions and manage in an interdisciplinary team.
- Ability to integrate, manage and organise complex solutions to the most challenging problems at national and international level.
- Ability to independently develop new knowledge, skills, techniques, practices and materials through research.
- Ability to specify and synthesise and to write a scientific study.
Subject-specific competencies (study results):
During the joint doctoral study programme Governance and Economics in the Public Sectors (third cycle), the students acquire subject-specific competences for studying and solving even the most difficult expert and scientific problems in the field of business and administration. The joint doctoral study programme Governance and Economics in the Public Sectors allows the students to deepen, define and build upon the theoretical and methodological knowledge acquired during the first and second cycle programmes. The acquired knowledge and skills give the students access to the most difficult methodologies for understanding and solving problems in business and administration practice.
Subject-specific competencies are:
- Ability to plan, reconstruct and specify the operations and learning of public sector organisations.
- Ability to assess, compare and integrate quantitative and qualitative research methods into research.
- Ability to evaluate, classify and carry out scientific analysis of problems, different theoretical positions and critical analysis of administrative systems and administrative law institutions.
- Ability to assess and formulate proposals for changes to information systems in administrative systems.
- Ability to evaluate, forecast and review the performance of public administration.
- Ability to integrate, adapt and synthesise different scientific disciplines into one integrated transdisciplinary method of scientific research.
- Ability to formulate, organise and manage public policies.
- Ability to compare, synthesise and design appropriate solutions in the field of respect for human rights.
- Ability to formulate and modify the normative regulation of staff relations on the basis of foreign legal solutions and theoretical models.
- Ability to manage, lead, organise and direct the practice of public administration management.