390031 SE PhD-M: Topics in Strategy and Innovation 3 (2021S)

Dear students: Please note that this course will use Zoom as video-conferencing tool for its digital sessions.
We strive to offer you online-sessions of the same quality as our regular sessions, and while there might be other video-conferencing tools available, Zoom is currently the only widely used one that offers the full range of functionality we need for this course. Zoom will allow us to conduct case-based online-sessions that very closely mirror our regular, highly interactive seminar sessions.
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If your concerns about Zoom’s data security prevent you from registering for our courses we are regretful, but understand that you may want to take other courses/pursue a different specialisation instead.

This course provides a PhD-level introduction to some of the most influential thinkers
in social science whose ideas underlie research as it is conducted today across the
various departments in a business school.

The course has two major aims. First, it introduces students to some of the
foundations of thinking about business firms. Because this course addresses much of
the foundational literature, it is relevant across departments. If your concentration is
not strategy or organizational behavior, this course should suffice for you to acquire
an overall view of management research. If your concentration is strategy or
organizational behavior, the course will complement more specialized courses.
Second, an important objective is that students learn to understand, compare, contrast,
and, eventually, develop theories. Within each session, students will gain a sense of
how individual research streams evolve. Across the sessions, students will have a
chance to synthesize distinct theoretical perspectives, understanding how they
compete with, and complement, one another.