The papers are downloaded from the Chalmers Library individually.
W. Richard Scott & Davis, Gerald F. (2006), Organizations and organizing: Rational, natural and open systems (Prentice Hall, 6th ed.)
Seminar 1:
1) Weick, Karl E., (1976), Educational organizations as loosely coupled systems, Administrative Science Quarterly, 21: 1-19.
2) Meyer, John W., & Rowan, Brian, (1977), Institutionalizing organizations: Formal structure as myth and ceremony, American Journal of Sociology, 83(2): 340-363.
Seminar 2:
1) Barley, Stephen R., (1986), Technology as an occasion of structuring: Evidence from observations of CT scanners and the social order of radiology departments, Administrative Science Quarterly, 31: 78-108.
2) Brunsson, Nils, (1982), The irrationality of action and action rationality: Decisions, ideologies and organizational action, Journal of Management Studies, 19(1): 29-44.
Seminar 3: Economic theories of the firm
1) Poppo, L. and Zenger, T. (1998), Testing alternative theories of the firm: transaction cost, knowledge‐based, and measurement explanations for make‐or‐buy decisions in information services. Strategic Management Journal, 19(9): 853-877.
2) Foss, N.J. (2003), Selective Intervention and Internal Hybrids: Interpreting and Learning from the Rise and Decline of the Oticon Spaghetti Organization.
3) Schepker, D. J., Oh, W. Y., Martynov, A. and Poppo, L. (2014), The Many Futures of Contracts: Moving Beyond Structure and Safeguarding to Coordination and Adaptation. Journal of Management, 40(1): 193-225.
Seminar 4: Innovation and entrepreneurship
1) Schumpeter, J.A. (2000 {1934}): ¿Entrepreneurship as innovation¿, i R. Swedberg (red). Entrepreneurship. The social science view. Oxford, Oxford University Press, sid 51-75.
2) Burt, R.S. (2000) "The network entrepreneur", i R. Swedberg (red). Entrepreneurship. The social science view. Oxford, Oxford University Press, sid 281-307.
3) Godin, B. (2015) "Innovation, or how to stabilize a changing world", in Innovation Contested: The idea of innovation over the centuries. London, Routledge, p 58-72
Seminar 5: Actor Network Theory
Law, J. (1992) Notes on the Theory of the Actor-Network: Ordering, Strategy and Heterogeneity. Systems Practice, 5, 4, 379-393.
Business Networks:
1) Håkansson, H. and Snehota, I (1989) No business is an island: The network concept of business strategy. Scandinavian Journal of Management, 5, 3, 187-200
2) Gadde, L-E (2013) Moving corporate boundaries - consequences for innovative redesign, Journal of Supply Chain Management, 49, 4, 12.26
Schedule: TBD