Multidisciplinarity and the promotion of interdisciplinarity, the hallmarks of the B&L PhD Programme, are designed to train professionals with the economic, business, and legal analysis skills necessary to contribute to the innovation and sustainability of governance processes in both the corporate and public sectors.
The PhD Programme thus trains professionals with high levels of independent expertise in addressing the diverse and complex needs of companies, organizations, and institutions, both in terms of planning and management. These professionals are therefore qualified by a dual integration: a business approach to the legal dimension of regulating economic and business activities, as well as a legal approach to the dimension of business processes, both internal and in their projection into the market (PSA: LS Didattica 3 Obiettivo 2 D.LS3.02-07, p. 55).
The professional profile is therefore equipped with independent and transversal research, analysis, and synthesis skills to examine and develop economic scenarios, their evolutionary conditions, existing and newly emerging legal and socio-environmental constraints (including those resulting from technological evolution), existing business opportunities, corporate operating conditions, and the ex-ante and ex post impacts of corporate or institutional policy decisions.
The profile of a B&L PhD graduate is suited to high-level research positions in both academic and managerial settings in public and private institutions, service sector companies, including financial services, utilities, and the third sector, industrial companies, and public administration offices. The primary opportunities for the PhD graduates are therefore both research — at universities or public and private institutions — and freelance work, as well as work in companies or other public or private, national or international institutions.
The transversality of the academic PhD training and research is based on the development of professional skills in line with the Sustainable Development Goals identified by the UN according to the targets indicated in the 2030 Agenda, as expressed at EU level (Next Generation EU) and implemented at the national level through the operational intervention of the PNRR (see PSA, LS Impegno Sociale per il Territorio 2, p. 79: "creation of a qualified workforce, also taking into account the availability of doctoral scholarships thanks to funding from the PNRR").