A4 Refereed article in a conference publication
Towards curricula for doctoral education – explorations in china and Finland
Subtitle: explorations in china and Finland
Authors: Helena Karsten, Meiqi Fang, Marikka Heikkilä, Juha Laine, Zhang Xianfeng
Conference name: International Workshop of Information Technology and Internet Finance
Publication year: 2014
Journal: Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems
Book title : Proceedings of The International Workshop of Information Technology and Internet Finance
Web address : http://www.pacis2014.org/data/IWITIF submissions proceedings/index.html
Doctoral curricula tend to be very university and department specific. Despite of this, we are working towards a framework within which doctoral curricula can be harmonized between two very different countries and among four different universities, in a subfield of Information Systems, eBusiness. In this paper, the educational systems in both countries are presented and compared. The planning carried out so far and its results are presented in terms of some key elements in course work: studies in the subject matter and research methods. The curriculum itself is a topic for future work.
