Organization Theory

Course overview

  • Course codeFTEK016
  • ECTS credits7.5
  • DepartmentTECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT AND ECONOMICS
  • Graduate schoolTechnology Management and Economics
  • PeriodicityThe course is given every other year, so next planned occasion after this one is with start in November 2027.
  • LanguageEnglish
  • Nordic Five Tech (N5T)The course is free of charge for PhD students from N5T Universities.
  • Applicationdoktfofu.tme@chalmers.se

Course coordinator

About the course

CANCELLED 2025

Registration

Ann-Sofie Ullenius, Dept. of Technology Management and Economics, Chalmers, e-mail: doktfofu.tme@chalmers.se 

Prerequisites: Being (1) Student in the Doctoral programme in Technology Management and Economics; (2) Doctoral student with a management topic from other Chalmers departments; (3) Other Doctoral students with a management topic.
The course accepts a maximum of 20 doctoral students. Minimum 6 students need to be enrolled to run the course.

Aim and focus: Organizations are one of the dominant institutions of contemporary life and in the modern society. The course introduces some of the main themes and fields of research in organization theory. Such themes include classic management theory notably bureaucracy theory, institutional theory, economic theories of organization, and more recent domains of research such as innovation management theory, practice oriented theories and network-based views of organization.

Course outline: The course is consisting of an introduction session, six seminars and a final seminar. Before each seminar, students should hand in a review paper. Introduction session and final seminar are compulsory, and a student can only be absent at one of the six seminars to pass the course. There will be no additional complementary assignment for more than one absence. In events of non-anticipated events, there could be negotiations with the course examiner regarding an exception from the rule stated above.

Learning outcome: The students are expected to acquire a basic familiarity with central theoretical frameworks and schools of research in the field of organization theory.


More information

Petra Bosch-Sijtsema and Pernilla Gluch

Literature


Lecturer

Pernilla Gluch, Professor, and Petra Bosch-Sijtsema, Professor, at the division of Innovation and R&D Management, Technology Management and Economics.