MANDJAK Tibor

Publishing a research article during one's PhD is a major challenge. The publication process is presented as a long and complicated quest, a source of anxiety for PhD students. The chapter entitled "Publishing an article during your thesis: Knocking on heaven's door?” and co-authored in the book “The experience of the PhD in management” aims at demystifying this quest for the grail by exploring the different key steps of this process, while being honest about the difficulty of the task.

The personal and subjective experience of the PhD journey remains underexplored. The PhD experience is still a "black box" difficult to open and decipher for neophytes. How is a thesis constructed in practice? How do PhD students articulate their contradictory demands? To answer this question, we have relied on the narratives of colleagues, fellow PhD students for less than five years, allowing us to make room for their experience.

While the PhD journey is largely documented, post-doctoral studies are much less so, in particular the months - or years - between the thesis defense and the first job position in academia. Based on the experience of the two authors, the objective of this chapter is to open the black box of post-doctoral studies in management sciences.