Faculty
Mark Lorenzen, Associate Professor, Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. Email: mark@cbs.dk and Christoph Hienerth, Associate Professor, Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. Email: ch.ino@cbs.dk

Course Coordinator
Mark Lorenzen and Christoph Hienerth

Basic knowledge in quantitative and qualitative methods.

Basic knowledge of theories related to management, technology, innovation, and organizations.

The goal of the course is to give an overview of methods used in qualitative work and to lead the students to develop their own projects involving qualitative work. After the course, the students should be able to produce the elements of the method section plus the theoretical framework for a qualitative empirical study. The expected quality of that ability will enable students to produce those elements in such a way that they meet the requirements of top academic journals in the field of management.

In order to achieve the aim of the course, the elements of the course reflect the main building parts and requirements for a top publication.

In an introductory session, we give an overview of the course, the individual modules and the literature used. Individual topics for the participants are discussed and distributed.

The second segment (class 2 and 3) of the course deals with the publication process of qualitative work, advice from the editors of leading journals on how to publish qualitative papers, and prominent examples of well-known publications.

The third segment (class, 4, 5, 6, and 7) deal with the important, individual building parts of qualitative papers and their applications. Thus we look at the theoretical framework of qualitative papers, case study methodology and building parts of case studies, the empirical setting, biases and triangulation.

In the fourth segment (class 8 and 9) we deal with the more specific aspects of dealing with data and how to reduce, code and verify it. Thus, we look at content analysis, the coding process and the design of coding workshops, and finally give an introduction to well-known software assisting in that process, QSR Nvivo.

Finally (class 10) the students present and discuss their individual projects before handing them in.

Please see: Overview of lectures

The course will consist of lectures. There will be weekly sets of questions that the students should work on either alone or in small groups. The students are expected to present answers to the questions in front of the class.

The exam format in this course is an individual written exam, 15 pages (report). In the written exam, the student develops the method section for a qualitative paper, covering such aspects as the theoretical framework, the development of categories and initial codes, the empirical setting (industry setting and case setting), the data reduction process (coding and development of patterns) and strategies for data display. Furthermore, strategies against the typical biases in qualitative work are expected to be included.

Deadline: December 10th 2010
Please be aware that the registration is binding, and you have to cancel the course two weeks before start.
The students outside of CBS will receive an invoice regarding payment.

Applications should be sent as e-mail to:
Tuyala Bernardo Rasmussen
Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics E-mail: tbr.ino@cbs.dk

Please remember to state your name, email, Department and University and if outside of CBS then your schools EAN number.