Strategy and Or­gan­iz­a­tion

Course content

Firms and other organizations operate in increasingly unpredictable and turbulent environments. This course aims to enhance the students’ capabilities in value creation, decision-making, and effective management within complex organizational settings defined by multiple stakeholders and competing demands. The goal is to equip students with the skills to develop and integrate well-reasoned strategies, or “corporate theories,” in organizations, based on comprehensive analyses of organizational complexity in firms’ environments and internally.

The course will introduce the students to key steps in developing corporate theories (strategies) that take organizational complexity into account. We will explore these steps across various sectors and organizational forms, drawing on both classic and cutting-edge scholarship in strategy and organization. The course emphasizes the students’ critical reflection when applying concepts from strategy and organization, encouraging discussion on the assumptions and relevance of these concepts across contexts.