Engaged Scholarship



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Course
Engaged Scholarship
Faculty
Andrew Van de Ven, Professor, Strategic Management and Organization, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota , USA Majken Schultz, Professor, Department of Organization, CBS
Course Coordinator
Majken Schultz
Prerequisites
The PhD scholar must be working on an organizational research project and be willing to explore the relevance and implications of engaged scholarship on the project. The idea is not to push students into becoming engaged scholars, but to make them reflect upon their role and project from this perspective. The course addresses theoretical and methodological issues particularly relevant for empirical studies or studies that have the ambition to develop theory relevant to practice. The PhD scholar is required to present a short (2- max. 3 pages) written presentation (in English) in which s/he relates the curriculum literature in the course to his or her project. The presentation must include specific references to the literature applied. Deadline for submission of presentations is Monday 31 October 2016. The presentations will be used as material for short presentations and discussions during the course. The student must be willing to participate in discussions of other presentations. A precondition for receiving the course diploma is that the PhD scholar attends the whole course.
Aim
The aim is to raise awareness that scholars of organization and management have special opportunities to be engaged in the fields that they study and benefit from such engagement in their empirical and theoretical work.
Course content
The course departs from a classic research design and shows how ‘engaged scholarship’ opens a range of new research activities and ways of doing research. The course presents different ways in which students can engage others in conducting their research projects. It particularly shows how dialogue with practitioners and other stakeholders helps scholars define their research problem, build theory, design research, and disseminate research findings in multiple ways. Through conceptual discussions and case-stories the course seeks to motivate and inspire the participants to make their PhD projects even more relevant to practice.
Teaching style
Lectures with workshop, dialogues and student discussions.
Lecture plan
The course follows the various stages in a research project and demonstrates how ’engaged scholarship’ is relevant in relation to problem formulation; theory building; research design; research application and dissemination of findings. Students will be assigned specific presentations and different roles during the course. Different formats will be used: Lectures, discussion, panel discussion and student presentations Every day from 9 am – approximately 4 pm Preliminary lecture plan: Monday 14 November: Welcome and course idea Brief presentation of project ideas in relation to engaged scholarship Session 1: Introduction to Engaged Scholarship Motivation? Why engagement? Issues in the debate on Theory and Practice, Rigor and Relevance Complete Worksheet of Key Questions for Conducting a Study Lunch Session 2: Problem formulation Exercise in problem formulation Students general discuss their research problems General discussion among all students Lessons from Day 1 Tuesday 15 November: Session 3: Theory building Abductive, deductive, and inductive thinking Relations between theory and practice? Lunch Exercises in theory building Student presentations of projects with focus on theory building Lessons from Day 2 Wednesday 16 November: Session 4: Research design Lectures, discussion, and exercises Complete Worksheet for Variance & Process Studies Lunch How to include engagement in research design? Students present their project with focus on research design work sheets Lessons from Day 3 Thursday 17 November: Session 5: Research writing Exercises in writing and reviewing research papers Students present their projects with focus on applying their research Lunch Session 6: Practicing engaged scholarship Experiences from LEGO Group, Carlsberg, and innovation studies Course wrap up
Learning objectives
Organizational theory and practice are often seen as separate endeavors following different methods and producing different types of knowledge. This course shows how practice can inform research in the problems we study, the ways we build our theories and how we communicate our findings. The course focuses on the relationship between theory and practice, research and action. In so doing it explores how research findings and knowledge can be useful for science, practice, and policy.
Exam
N/A
Other

Start date
14/11/2016
End date
17/11/2016
Level
PhD
ECTS
4
Language
English
Course Literature
Andrew Van de Ven: Engaged scholarship: A guide for organizational and social research, Oxford University Press, 2007.Van de Ven, A. (2011): Reflections on Research for Theory and Practice from an Engaged Scholarship Perspective. Chapter in S. A. Mohrman, E.E. Lawler III & Associates, (Eds.), Useful Research: Advancing Theory and Practice, Berrett-Koehler PublishersHatch, M. Schultz, M. & Skov, A.M. (2015) Organizational identity and culture in the context of managed change: Transformation in the Carlsberg group, 2009-2013. Academy of Management Discoveries, 1, 1: 58-90.Langley, A, Smallman, C., Tsoukas, H. & Van de Ven, A (2013) Process studies of change in organizations and management: Unveiling temporality, activity, and flow, Academy of Management Journal, 56, 1: 1-13.Schultz, M. & Hatch, M. J. (2005) Building Theory from Practice, Strategic Organization. August: 337 – 348Miller, C. & Van de Ven, A. (2015) Peer review, root canals, and other amazing life events, Academy of Management Discoveries, 1, 2: 117-123.
Fee
DKK 5,200 (covers the course, coffee, tea, lunch and one dinner)
Minimum number of participants
10

Maximum number of participants
16
Location
Copenhagen Business School Kilevej 14 A, 4th floor DK-2000 Frederiksberg Room: K4.74
Contact information
PhD Support Katja Høeg Tingleff kht.research@cbs.dk Tel: +45 38 15 28 39
Registration deadline
03/10/2016

Please note that your registration is binding after the registration deadline. In case we receive more registrations for the course than we have places, the registrations will be prioritized in the following order: Students from Doctoral School of Organisation and Management Studies (OMS), students from other CBS PhD schools, students from other institutions than CBS.

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