Faculty
Associate Professor Maja Horst, Resident writing consultant Thomas Basbøll, Professor Rob Austin, Professor Daniel Hjorth, Associate Professor Dorthe Pedersen, Associate Professor Anders La Cour, Professor Campbell Jones, Associate Professor Bent Meier Sørensen, Professor Niels Åkerstrøm Andersen, Professor Sverre Raffnsøe, Associate Professor Kasper Villadsen

Course Coordinator
Maja Horst, Director of doctoral school of knowledge and management, CBS

The course is an introduction to management studies with a clear focus on critical perspectives. Only PhD students are accepted and it is aimed at students with a social scientific background. Students are expected to produce a short example of their own empirical material and this will form the basis of a group assignment during the course. Students are expected to participate actively in discussions.

The course will introduce a number of different perspectives to the study of management and invite students to experiment with these perspectives on selected pieces of empirical material. The objective is to help students navigate the academic landscape of management studies and to help them identify fruitful academic resources for their subsequent study of management and related disciplines.

The course is an introduction to contemporary management studies with a clear focus on critical perspectives and the intersection between academic studies of management, leadership, entrepreneurship, politics, sociology and philosophy. The course provides an invitation for students to discuss various perspectives and experiment with their applicability in empirical analysis. Additionally, the course will introduce themes such as: management and control, leadership, organisational creativity, entrepreneurship, new public management, critical management studies, management technologies, governmentality.

The course will introduce a number of different perspectives to the study of management and invite students to experiment with these perspectives on selected pieces of empirical material. The objective is to help students navigate the academic landscape of management studies and to help them identify fruitful academic resources for their subsequent study of management and related disciplines.

Lecture plan

Time/period	Faculty	Title
Monday
09:00-11:30	Maja Horst, Thomas Basbøll	Introduction
11:30-12:30		Group work
12:30-13:30		Lunch
13:30-16:00	Per H. Hansen	Lecture: A Danish story of management and organisation
Tuesday
09:00-09:30	Maja Horst, Thomas Basbøll	Introduction to day
09:30-11:30	Rob Austin	Lecture: Management, Information and Control
11:30-12:30	Maja Horst, Thomas Basbøll	Group work
12:30-13:30		Lunch
13:30-16:00	Anders La Cour, Campbell Jones	Discussion seminar: Deconstructing Management Technologies
Wednesday
09:00-09:30	Maja Horst, Thomas Basbøll	Introduction to day
09:30-11:30	Daniel Hjorth	Lecture: Entrepreneurship and Orgaisational Creativity
11:30-12:30	Maja Horst, Thomas Basbøll	Group work
12:30-13:30		Lunch
13:30-16:00	Bent Meier Sørensen, Niels Åkerstrøm Andersen	Discussion seminar: Management Games
Thursday
09:00-09:30	Maja Horst, Thomas Basbøll	Introduction to day
09:30-11:30	Dorte Pedersen	Lecture: New Public Management
11:30-12:30	Maja Horst, Thomas Basbøll	Group work
12:30-13:30		Lunch
13:30-16:00	Sverre Raffnsøe, Kasper Villadsen	Discussion seminar: Self-management and governmentality
Friday
09:00-09:30	Maja Horst, Thomas Basbøll	Introduction to day
9.30-11.30	Eva Zeuthen Bentsen, Alan Irwin	Discussion seminar: The practical relevance of management research
12:30-13:30		Lunch
13:30-16:00	Maja Horst, Thomas Basbøll	Presentations of group work, Evaluation

The teaching style of the course is a mixture of lectures, discussion seminars with short presentations, and group work. A large part of the course consists of dialogues, in which students are expected to be very active.

Students will get a group assignment on the first day of the course, which will be evaluated through a presentation on the last day of the course.

Preliminary

Eisenhardt, K. Control: Organizational and economic approaches. Management Science, 1985, 31, 134-149.Foucault, Michel (1988): The political technology of individuals. In Martin, Luther H., Gutman Huck, Hutton Patrick, H.: Technologies of the Self. Tavistock Publications, London

Gartner, William, B. (1988): 'Who is an Entrepreneur'? Is the Wrong Question, Entrepreneurship, Theory & Practice, Summer

Hansen, Per (2006): Networks, Narratives, and New markets: The rise and decline of Danish Modern Furniture Design, 1930-1970. In Business History Review 80 (Autumn 2006) 449-483

Hjorth, Daniel (2005) Organizational Entrepreneurship - With de Certeau on creating heterotopias (or spaces for play). Journal of Management Inquiry 14(4)386-398

Jones, Campbell (2004): Jaques Derrida. In S Linstead (ed.): Organization Theory and Post-modern Thought. SAGE Publications

Kilduff, Martin (1993): Deconstructing Organizations. Academy of management Review. 18 (1)13-31

McCracken, Grant (1986): Culture and Consumption: A theoretical account of the structure and movement of the cultural meaning of consumer goods. The Journal of Consumer Research, 13(1) 71-84

Pfeffer, J. (1982): Organizations and Organization Theory (chapter 1: The Variety of Perspectives), Cambridge, MA: Ballinger

Raffnsøe, Sverre (2003): The rise of the network society. MPP Working paper No. 24/2003. CBS

Rose, Nikolas & Peter Miller (1992): Political power beyond the state. British Journal of Sociology, vol. 43, no. 2

Villadsen, K. & Karlsen, M.P.(under publication): Who should do the talking? The Proliferation of Dialogue as Governmental Technology. Culture & Organization (under 2. review).

Austin, R. D. (1996): Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations, NY: Dorset House

Drucker, Peter (1986/1993): Innovation and Entrepreneurship. New York: Harper & Row

Hjorth, Daniel (2008) Nordic Entrepreneurship Research. Entrepreneurship, Theory & Practice, March

Jones, Campbell (2007): Deconstruction. in Stewart Clegg and James Bailey (eds) International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies. London: SAGE, pp. 366-370

Shafritz, J. M. and J. S. Ott (2004): Classics of Organization Theory, 6th ed., Wadsworth Publishing.Steyaert, Chris (2007) 'Entrepreneuring' as a conceptual attractor? A review of process theories in 20 years of entrepreneurship studies'. Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 19(6) 453 – 477.

Send your application before 22 August, 2008 to Anja Dupont ( ad.lpf@cbs.dk).

Students from abroad are encouraged to apply for a waiver of the course fees, if they do not have funding of their own. Send us an email explaining your situation.