Faculty
Associate Professor Maja Horst, Resident writing consultant Thomas Basbøll, Dean Alan Irwin, Associate Professor Eva Zeuthen Bentsen, Professor Rob Austin, Associate Professor Ester Barinaga, Assistant Professor Robyn Remke, Professor Dan Kärreman, Associate Professor Annette Risberg, Associate Professor Kaspar Villadsen, Professor Daniel Hjorth, Professor Niels Åkerstrøm Andersen, Associate Professor Steen Vallentin and Professor Lotte Jensen

Course Coordinator
Maja Horst, Director of Doctoral school of Organisation and Management Studies, CBS

Only PhD students are accepted and the course is aimed at students with a social scientific background. In advance of the course, students are expected to produce a short empirical example drawn from their research project, which will form the basis of a group assignment to be completed during the course. Students are expected to participate actively in discussions and participation in the whole course is a prerequisite for receiving the course diploma.

The course is an introduction to contemporary management studies, emphasizing critical perspectives and points of contact (and conflict) between academic studies of management, leadership, entrepreneurship, communication, politics, sociology and philosophy. The course provides an invitation for students to discuss various perspectives and experiment with their applicability in empirical analysis. The course will address themes like management and control, leadership, identity, diversity, entrepreneurship, new public management, critical management studies and 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
9.00-10.30	Maja Horst	Introduction
10.30-12.00	Alan Irwin og Eva Zeuthen Bentsen	The practical relevance of management research
12.00-13.00		Lunch
13.00-14.00		Group work
14.00-16.00	Rob Austin	Management, information and control.
Tuesday
9.00-9.30	Maja Horst	Introduction to the day
9.30-12.00	Robyn Remke and Ester Barinaga	Management and Resistance
12.00-13.00		Lunch
13.00-14.00		Group Work
14.00-16.00	Dan Kärreman	Management and Identity
Wednesday
9.00-9.30	Maja Horst	Introduction to the day
9.30-12.00	Annette Risberg and Kasper Villadsen	Diversity and governmentality
12.00-13.00		Lunch
13.00-14.00		Group work
14.00-16.00	Daniel Hjorth	Entrepreneurship and organisational creativity
Thursday
9.00-9.30	Maja Horst	Introduction to the day
9.30-12.00	Niels Åkerstrøm Andersen and Steen Vallentin	Games and Responsibility
12.00-13.00		Lunch
13.00-14.00		Group Work
14.00-16.00	Lotte Jensen	New Public Management
Friday
9.00-9.30	Maja Horst
9.30-12.00	Maja Horst and Thomas Basbøll
12.00-13.00		Lunch
13.00-14.00		Group Work
14.00-16.00	Maja Horst	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 lage 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 and this will be evaluated through a presentation on the last day of the course.

No examination

Eisenhardt, K. Control: Organizational and economic approaches. Management Science, 1985, 31, 134-149.

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

Pratt, Michael G (2000): The Good, the bad and the ambivalent: Managing identification among amway distributors. Administrative Science Quarterly, 45(3)456-493.

Kärreman, Dan & Mats Alvesson (2004): Cages in Tandem: Management Control, Social Identity, and Identification in a knowledge-intensive firm. Organisation, 11(1)149-175

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

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

Vallentin, Steen (2007): Private Management and Public Opinion: corporate social responsiveness revisited. Business & Society.

Porter, Michael E. & Kramer, Mark R. (2006): Strategy & Society: The link between competitive advantage and corporate sociale responsibility. Harvard Business Review.

Andersen, Niels Åkerstrøm (forthcoming): The playfull organisation: the semantic history of management games.

Baecker, Dirk (1999): The Form Game. In Baecker, d. (ed.) ‘Problems of form’, Stanford University Press.

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

Shafritz, J. M. and J. S. Ott (2004): Classics of Organization Theory, 6th ed., Wadsworth Publishing.

Please send your application to Anja Dupont ( ad.lpf@cbs.dk) before the 21 August 2009.