Strategy and Or­gan­iz­a­tion

Course content

Firms and other organizations operate in increasingly unpredictable and turbulent environments. This course aims to develop the students’ capabilities in value creation, decision-making, and effective management in complex organizational environments defined by multiple stakeholders and competing logics. This goal is achieved by training the students’ capacities to develop and integrate well-reasoned strategies, or “corporate theories”, and comprehensive analyses of organizational complexity in firms’ environments.

The course will introduce the students to key steps in developing corporate theories (strategies) for firms and analyzing organizational complexity. We will examine these steps across different sectors and organizational forms and draw on both classic and cutting-edge scholarship within strategy and organization. The course emphasizes the students’ critical reflection in applying concepts from strategy and organization and discussing the assumptions and relevance of these concepts across contexts.