Faculty
The professors: Susse Georg, Paul DuGay, Kristian Kreiner, Tor Hernes, Peter Karnøe, ass. Professor Signe Vikkelsø - all from CBS

Course Coordinator
Professor Peter Karnøe, e-mail pka.ioa@cbs.dk

The ambition is to introduce the PhD to some of the classical dimensions that constitute organizational theory and link it to the ways we can use in order to understand the unfolding of concrete organizing and business practice. The central idea in designing the course is to work with a constitutive dimension in a process view (decision processes, sensemaking processes, strategy processes etc.), and to make a move from the classical treatment of the subject to a post-structural treatment. The process view underscores ‘organizing as a process’ and the post-structural view depicts the ambition to understand the classical themes in light of the new ontological position.

The outcome of the participation is to enable the PhD to mobilize the classical dimensions in organizational theory, so they can ‘see’ something different and new in their empirical work. Therefore the course will be explicit about how this new understanding is linked to your own projects.

Since the course introduces the PhD to the classics and a post-structural and process view on organizational analysis, it may be relevant for both experienced and not so experienced students in organizational theory.

The course covers four perspectives on organizational analysis:

1. DECISION-MAKING PROCESSES

2. SENSEMAKING PROCESSES

3. ORGANISATIONAL DESIGN AND ARRANGEMENT PROCESSES

4. STRATEGY AND CONTROL PROCESSES.

The fifth day will conclude with final reflections of the week and relate the new perspectives to your own PROJECT ANALYSES.

Dialog lectures and group discussions.

The participant’s role:
The PhD student is required to present a five-pages (maximum) written presentation, in which she/he relates the curriculum literature in the course to his/her project. The presentation must include specific references to the literature applied. Deadline for submission of presentations is 22. September, 2008.

The student presentation should provide material for discussion during the course, and the student must be willing to participate in discussions of other presentations.

Compendium.