Postgraduate course
2024/2025
Contemporary Research in Management
Type:
Compulsory course
Area of studies:
Postgraduate Studies
Delivered by:
Department of Management
When:
2 year, 1 semester
Mode of studies:
offline
Open to:
students of one campus
Instructors:
Maxim Storchevoy
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
2
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The primary goal of this course is to equip PhD students with the deep theoretical foundation and critical analytical skills necessary to become proficient consumers, evaluators, and ultimately, producers of influential research in organization and management theory. The course aims to transform students' understanding of organizations from a set of practical problems to a landscape of intellectual puzzles and research opportunities.
Learning Objectives
- Foundational Knowledge Goal: To provide a comprehensive and critical understanding of the major paradigms that have shaped, and continue to shape, the field of organization and management theory.
- Critical Thinking Goal: To develop the ability to critically analyze, compare, and contrast these theoretical lenses, evaluating their assumptions, explanatory power, and limitations.
- Research Application Goal: To bridge theory and empirical research by learning to apply theoretical frameworks to analyze complex organizational phenomena and to formulate novel, theory-driven research questions.
- Scholarly Development Goal: To foster the development of a distinct scholarly identity and the ability to engage in high-level academic discourse, both orally and in writing.
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 semester0.3 * Активность на семинарах + 0.4 * Выступление с докладом + 0.3 * Итоговый тест
- 2024/2025 1st semester1 * 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: 04.07.2025). — 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