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The field of production management is a sub-branch of the wider field of business administration. Production management concerns itself with efficiently designing and utilizing the processes and structures used to produce goods and services in companies, mainly from a decision-oriented perspective. Production management methods and techniques provide decision support for planning tasks such as where to open a new production site, how staff can be assigned or how production processes can be controlled.

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Several fully-funded Doctoral research positions - Economics Doctoral Research Training Group “Regional Disparities and Economic Policy”

The causes and consequences of regional disparities are subject to a lively debate both in academia and in public. Started in October 2019, the University of Duisburg-Essen, the Ruhr-Universität Bochum and the Technical University Dortmund run the joint graduate program “Regional Disparities and Economic Policy”, funded by the German Research Foundation.

They offer at least 4 fully-funded doctoral research positions (75%, TV-L E13, 3 years with the possibility of continuation funding) for the cohort of students to enter in October 2022.

Application deadline is the 31 March 2022. Please find more details here.