Om kursen
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.
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.
