Perspectives in Management Studies (29 November - 3 December 2010)

Faculty
Professor Pierre Guillet de Monthoux, Professor Daniel Hjorth, Professor Niels Åkerstrøm Andersen, Professor Kurt Jacobsen, Professor Sverre Raffnsøe, Associate Professor Camilla Sløk, Associate Professor Sigvald Harryson, Associate Professor Mads Mordhorst, Assistant Professor Ole Bjerg, Associate Professor Ester Barinaga, Resident writing consultant Thomas Basbøll.

Course Coordinator
Ester Barinaga, Associate Professor, Dpt. of Management, Politics and Philosophy

The course is aimed at students with a social scientific background. Previous to the course’s start, 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. 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, history and philosophy. The course will particularly address the notion of critique in those approaches. The course provides an invitation for students to discuss various perspectives and experiment with their applicability in empirical analysis.

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 and this will be evaluated through a presentation on the last day of the course.

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
9.00-10.00	Barinaga & Basbøll	Introduction
10.00-12.00	Pierre Guillet de Monthoux	Relevance of the Humanities and the Social Sciences in Management Studies
12.00-13.00		Lunch
13.00-14.00		Group work
14.00-16.00		Workshop: Connecting the morning class to students’ particular research projects
Tuesday
9.00-9.30		Wrap-up previous day & intro to day
9.30-12.00	Daniel Hjorth & Sigvald Harryson	Entrepreneurship and organizational creativity
12.00-13.00		Lunch
13.00-14.00		Group work
14.00-16.00		Workshop: Connecting the morning class to students’ particular research projects
Wednesday
9.00-9.30		Wrap-up previous day & intro to day
9.30-12.00	Niels Åkerstrøm & Camilla Sløk	Welfare management and Critique
12.00-13.00		Lunch
13.00-14.00		Group work
14.00-16.00		Workshop: Connecting the morning class to students’ particular research projects
Thursday
9.00-9.30		Wrap-up previous day & intro to day
9.30-12.00	Kurt Jacobsen & Mads Mordhorst	Critique and history
12.00-13.00		Lunch
13.00-14.00		Group work
14.00-16.00		Workshop: Connecting the morning class to students’ particular research projects
Friday
9.00-9.30		Wrap-up previous day & intro to day
9.30-12.00	Sverre Raffnsøe & Ole Bjerg	Critique, post-ideology and contemporary capitalism
12.00-13.00		Lunch
13.00-14.00		Group work
14.00-16.00		Presentations of group work and evaluation

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.

Please send your registration phd.mpp@cbs.dk no later than October 29th 2010