Master'S Dissertation
Code: 43388Credits: 15
| Degree programme | Type | Course |
|---|---|---|
| Management, Organization and Business Economics | OB | 0 |
Contact lecturer
- Name :
- Yulia Ponomareva Minchenko
- Email :
- yulia.ponomareva@uab.cat
Teaching staff
- Miguel Ángel Garcia Cestona
- Emili Grifell Tatjé
- Nour Chams
- Maria Teresa Bolivar Ramos
- Florina Raluca Silaghi
- Yulia Ponomareva Minchenko
- Vera Butkouskaya
- Damian Tojeiro Rivero
- Ryan Federo Acosta
- Camilla Civardi
- Gabriela Sicilia Suárez
- Yacine Ouazzani
- Isabel Narbón Perpiña
Teaching staff (external to UAB)
- Demián Macedo
- Beatriz Martínez García
- Marta Arce Urriza
- Carlos Bianchi
- Eduard Alonso Paulí
- Antoni Mut
- Laura Arranz Aperte
- Javier Cebollada Calvo
- Alfredo Martín
- Aleix Calveras
- Elpiniki Bakaouka
- Lucía Garcés Galdeano
- Toni Vaello
- Saleh Shuqair
- LLuís Bru Martínez
- Lara Ezquerra
- Rafel Crespí Cladera
- María Ruíz
- Jos Jansen
- Nicola Maria Fiore
- Bartomeu Pascual Fuster
- Pablo Arocena Garro
- Marcos Antón
- Thomas Woiczyk
- Pau Balart
- Chiara Bellucci
- Sofía López
- Jesús Gorrin
- Luisa Unda
Group languages
You can consult this information at the end of the document.
Prerequisites
The Master Thesis will be started and developed after cocnluding succesfully the rest of the Master's Module, usually at the end of May.
The Master Thesis has to be supervised by at least one faculty member of the Master. At the end of May, when classes are over, possible supervisors will suggest possible dissertations. Students will have to say which is their first, second and third preferred projects. The allocation of projects to students will take into account their academic records and preferences.
Only those students previously allocated to a research proposal elaborated jointly with a firm (Industrial Master Thesis) will be exempted from this allocation process, as in this case the election of the candidate is done jointly with the firm. In these cases there will be two supervisors, one member of the MMOBE staff and one member of staff from the firm.
Objectives
The Master Thesis is an original piece of research in which the student demonstrate the capabilities developed during the previous courses of the master, and the ability to meet deadlines. The students start working on it in June and it must be concluded at the end of August (we will inform about the exact dates). The Master Thesis has to be publicly defended in Palma de Mallorca during the first week of September. The language of the Master is English, so the report and the presentations will have to be done in this language.
Learning outcomes
- Present research results to various audiences using the different media available.
- Master the technical and IT tools needed to carry out applied studies.
- Identify the relevant sources of information and their content for subsequent analysis.
- Develop an ethical, social and environmental commitment.
- Work in multidisciplinary international teams.
- Develop a critical and a constructive attitude to one's work and that of others.
- Explain and motivate the analyses, interpret the results and present all these clearly and concisely in English.
- Leadership and decision-taking capability.
- Show mastery of the research topics that are currently of importance in the field of business economics and organizations.
- Show mastery of the research techniques that help to understand the business phenomenon.
- Further investigate the interrelationships between different study areas focusing on business.
- Recognise, compile and handle the appropriate documentary sources for conducting organizational economic research.
- Propose and develop an independent original research project, interpreting the results at an advanced level.
- Know how to undertake a research project with a gender perspective.
Contents
The Master Thesis has to be an original piece of research written in English.
The Master Thesis will have a structure as similar as possible to an academic paper.
Here are some orientative (supervisor has to close it) recommendations:
Extension: Main text 35-40 pages (double space, Times New Roman size 12). It can be included Appendixes. The text has to be readable without reading those appendixes.
Structure of the main text:
- Introduction: Objectives of the Master thesis, importance of the topic, contribution to the literature and a brief summary of results.
- Theoretical framework: Summary of the existing literature and gad that this research covers.
- Methodology: Methodology used to fill this gap.
- Results: Summary of main results.
- Conclusions: Main conclusions and limitations of the research.
Tables and graphs. The Tables and Graphs have to be numerated by order of appearance. Each one has to be titled. Their source has to be cited.
References: At the end of the Master Thesis has to appear a list of references. Those references has to be cited in the main text. Use an established citation procedure in the literature, for example the APA Style.
Learning activities and methodology
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Master Thesis execution and writting | 306.8 | 12.272 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| Meetings with supervisors | 56.2 | 2.248 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 13 |
Students have to develop the research project finally allocated under the supervision of the professor/s who made the proposal.
In a first meeting with the supervisor/s (face to face or electronically) they will establish, among other things, a calendar of meetings.
The purpose of these meetings is to guide the student in their research and supervise the execution of the Master Thesis.
A student who does not complete any assessable activity is considered 'non-assessable'. Therefore, once a student has provided any written submission to the thesis supervisor, they can no longer be classified as 'non-assessable'.
A summary of the Master Thesis has to be presented and defended publicly.
The proposed evaluation activities may undergo some changes according to the restrictions imposed by the health authorities on on-campus courses.
For this course, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies is permitted only for tasks explicitly approved by the thesis supervisor. Students are not allowed to use AI tools to generate full sections of the master's thesis. Any content produced with the assistance of AI must be clearly identified, including a specification of the tools used and the exact prompts, which should be included in the appendix. Failure to transparently disclose the use of AI in this assessable activity will be considered academic dishonesty and may result in a partial or total deduction of the grade for the assignment, or more severe disciplinary action in serious cases.
Assessment
Continuous assessment activities
| Title | Weight | Hours | ECTS | Learning outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Workshop participation | 100 | 12 | 0.48 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 |
The Master ends with a workshop usually organized at the early of September at Palma de Mallorca.
It is mandatory the participation in all the workshop activities.
During 30 minutes each student defend their Master Thesis. It consist on an exposition of their work and the answers to the questions made by a committee of three persons and other assistants to the workshop, usually professors of the master or invited from other universities.
At the end of the workshop there is a grading meeting. At this meeting are invited all the Master's faculty. The comittee of each Master Thesis exposes their evalutaion, then the supervisor, and finnally the floor is open for other faculty members. The Master Thesis are compared in terms of their originality and relevance of the topic, the written memory and their presentation. The Master Theses are ranked and finnally graded.
This module does not include a unique evaluation system.
The completion of assessment activities is subject to the provisions set out in this course guide and in the "Policy of the School of Economics and Business on the Detection of Irregularities during Assessment Activities", which regulates the conditions under which assessment tasks are conducted and the procedures applicable in cases where indications of irregularities are detected. Students are encouraged to consult the policy.
Bibliography
Ehrenberg (1982) \"Writing tecnical papers or reports\". The Amercian Statitician. Vol. 36, n.4, p. 326-329.
Barney, J. B. (2025). Positioning papers for publication. In How to get published in the best Management Journals (pp. 132-142). Edward Elgar Publishing.
American Psychological Association. (2022). Manual de Publicaciones de la APA. Editorial El manual moderno.
You can find further information:
At the webpage of the MMOBE (public)
At the E-learning of the MMOBE (restricted to enrolled students)
Software
Course groups and languages
The information provided is provisional until November 30. After this date, you will be able to consult the language of each group through this link. To access the information, you will need to enter the course CODE
| Type of teaching | Group | Language | Semester | Shift |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (TFMm) Treball de fi de màster | 1 | English | annual | morning-mixed |