Postgraduate course 2023/2024

Contemporary Research in Management

Type: Compulsory course

Area of studies: Postgraduate Studies

Delivered by: Department of Management

When: 1 year, 1 semester

Mode of studies: offline

Open to: students of one campus

Instructors: Maxim Storchevoy

Language: English

ECTS credits: 2

Contact hours: 20

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The purposes of the discipline are the formation of knowledge, skills and the use of modern research methods in the field of management theory and practice and the development of a scientifically sound position in the process of preparation, adoption and implementation of effective management decisions

Learning Objectives

• Learn the main approaches in Organization Theory — a science describing, explaining and predicting behavior of organizations.
• Develop the important skill of critical thinking about any theory (Is it really a good theory? Are the concepts clear? Is the logic consistent? Is it supported with reality? What is its added value? etc.)
• Prepare to pass the Candidate Exam in the 2nd year of the doctoral program (one of the questions will be devoted to various frameworks in Organization Theory).

Expected Learning Outcomes

• Ability to use instruments of new institutional economics to analyse contracts
• apply transaction costs economics to explaining the choice of type of contract

Course Contents

• Economic perspective
• Behavioral perspective
• Resource perspective
• Contingency vs. Choice Perspective
• Networks perspective
• Institutional Perspective
• Evolutionary Perspective
• Sensemaking and Enactment Perspective
• Post-Modernist and Symbolic Perspective
• Methodological Overview

Assessment Elements

• Активность на семинарах
• Выступление с докладом
• Итоговый тест
• Attestation of other Seminar's parts

Interim Assessment

• 2023/2024 1st semester
  0.3 * Активность на семинарах + 0.4 * Выступление с докладом + 0.3 * Итоговый тест
• 2024/2025 1st semester
  1 * Attestation of other Seminar's parts

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• An introduction to the economics of information: incentives and contracts, Macho-Stadler, I., 2001
• Miles, J. A. (2014). New Directions in Management and Organization Theory. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=748513
• Organization theory : методическое пособие / В. В. Великороссов, А. А. Гретченко, А. В. Колесников [и др.]. — Москва : Русайнс, 2022. — 132 с. — ISBN 978-5-4365-6183-7. — URL: https://book.ru/book/943408 (дата обращения: 25.08.2023). — Текст : электронный.

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Williamson, O. E. (1995). Organization Theory : From Chester Barnard to the Present and Beyond (Vol. Expanded ed). New York: Oxford University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=169764