Content Analysis of Abstracts of Business Administration and Management Sciences Theses

The purpose of this descriptive research is to primarily analyze theses/dissertations abstracts in the field of Business Administration and Management Sciences in Pakistan.  The researchers employed quantitative content analysis as their research technique.The researchers searched Pakistan’s Higher Education Commission’s (the HEC) research repository and located 281 theses in the broader field of business education, afterwards they selected some 96 theses through an iterative process of categorizing those 281 theses into various sub-fields within business education.The findings show that PhD research is often tried and tested in terms of paradigm, research approach, research design, data collection methods and data analysis.  A typical thesis in Business Administration and Management Sciences is likely to be formulaic with these distinct features: it will be written by a male, in a five chapter format monograph, approximately 250 pages long, adhering to positivism as its philosophy, deductive in its approach, quantitative in its methodology, using an adapted survey instrument to collect data from respondents, while relying on descriptive statistics, correlation and regression as its data analysis techniques to arrive at some mundane findings and recommendations.