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Course |
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| Historical Approaches in Management and Organizational Research (Cancelled) | ||
Faculty |
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Christina Lubinski, Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, CBS Mads Mordhorst, Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, CBS R. Daniel Wadhwani, University of the Pacific, USA |
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Course Coordinator |
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| Christina Lubinski | ||
Prerequisites |
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Only PhD students can participate in the course. Participants are expected to submit a working paper for discussion on day 3. For course participation and submission of working paper a total of 4 ECTS will be awarded. Participants who do not wish to submit a working paper may still take the course, but will receive only 3 ECTS credits. Deadline for submission of the working paper is 21 October 2016. Prior knowledge of historical methods or theory is not required. Students should indicate whether they will be submitting a working paper when they register for the course, so that both credits and fees can be adjusted accordingly. It is a precondition for receiving the course diploma that students attend the whole course. |
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Aim |
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| In recent years, management and organizations researchers have begun to use historical sources and approaches in their study of organizations and organizing. Building on earlier pleas for an engagement with historical reasoning about organizations (Zald, 1993; Kieser, 1994; Clark and Rowlinson, 2004), these more recent developments have included efforts to develop historical approaches to studying organizational and institutional theory (Suddaby and Greenwood, 2009), strategy (Kahl et al, 2012; Ingram et al, 2012), innovation and entrepreneurship (Forbes and Kirsch, 2010; Popp and Holt, 2013; Wadhwani and Jones, 2014), international business (Jones and Khanna, 2006) and critical management studies (Rowlinson and Proctor, 1999), among other subfields. The turn towards history, however, has also raised a number of complex questions for researchers about the nature of historical knowledge, how it might be employed to address organizational research questions, and how to analyze historical sources and data (Bucheli and Wadhwani, 2014; Rowlinson, Hassard, and Decker, 2014; Kipping and Usdiken, 2014). This seminar will introduce participants to the core theoretical and methodological issues involved in using historical approaches in organizational and management research, and discuss the variety of ways in which history is being used in organization and management studies today. The seminar will provide participants with both a broad orientation to the theoretical and practical issues involved in the use of historical approaches, and an opportunity to apply these approaches to their own research using smaller breakout groups and discussions. | ||
Course content |
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This PhD seminar will provide an introduction to historical approaches to management and organizational research. Day 1 will be devoted to Historical Theorizing, Day 2 to Historical Methods, and Day 3 to Historical Practice. Day 1, Historical Theorizing, will examine the advantages and limits of using historical perspective to develop theoretical concepts in management and organizational research. Students will be introduced to the unique perspective that history provides and how it can be used by management and organizational scholars. Specifically, we will examine how history provides unique perspectives for developing conceptualizations of: (a) cause and effect, (b) cognition and power, (c) alternatives and counterfactuals. Day 2, Historical Methods, will examine the nature of historical sources and methods. We will explore basic methods, such as source criticism, triangulation, and hermeneutics, but also advanced methods, including microhistory, conceptual history, and postcolonial history. Participants will also engage in a methods workshop, designed to provide a hands-on experience with source analysis and interpretation. Day 3, Historical Practice, will be devoted to discussion and feedback on student research. The day will be organized as a series of workshops. |
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Teaching style |
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| The course is taught in lectures, small group and plenary discussions and exercises. | ||
Lecture plan |
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Day 1: Historical Theorizing 9:00-10:00 Origins of the Historical Turn in Management Research Primary Faculty: Mordhorst; Secondary Faculty: Wadhwani Reading: Kipping and Usdiken in OIT, 2014; Wadhwani, Kurosawa, & Kipping, 2016. 10:00-10:15 Break 10:15-12:15 The Comparative Advantages of Historical Conceptualization Primary Faculty: Wadhwani; Secondary: Lubinski Reading: Wadhwani & Bucheli in OIT, 2014; Rowlinson, Hassard, and Decker, 2014; MacLean, Harvey & Clegg, 2016. 12:15-1:30 Lunch 1:30-2:30 Conceptualizing Cause and Effect in Historical Time Primary Faculty: Lubinski; Secondary Faculty: Wadhwani Reading: Marquis and Tilcsik, 2013; Sydow & Schreyogg, 2009 2:30-2:15 Break 2:15-3:15 Conceptualizing the Historicity of Actors & Actions Primary Faculty: Mordhorst; Secondary Faculty: Lubinski Reading: Mordhorst, 2014; Suddaby et al, 2010; Anteby & Molnar, 2012. 3:15-3:30 Break 3:30-4:30 Imagining Alternative Paths & Counter-factuals Primary Faculty: Mordhorst; Secondary Faculty: Wadhwani Reading: Mordhorst, 2008; Hargadon and Douglas, 2001 6.00 - Course dinner for participants and faculty Day 2: Historical Methods 9:00-10:30 Basic Historical Methods: Source Criticism, Triangulation, Hermeneutics Primary Faculty: Wadhwani; Secondary Faculty: Lubinski Reading: Kipping, Wadhwani and Bucheli in OIT, 2014 10:30-10:45 Break 10:45-12:15 Advanced Historical Methods: Microhistory, Conceptual History, Postcolonial Methods Primary Faculty: Lubinski; Secondary: Mordhorst Reading: Decker, 2012; Pfefferman, 2016 12:15-1:30 Lunch 1:30-4:00 Primary Source Interpretation Workshop Primary Faculty: Mordhorst; Secondary: Lubinski Reading: Anteby & Molnar, 2012; Schultz & Hernes, 2013; Mordhorst, 2014 Day 3: Historical Practice 9:00-10:30 Paper Workshop 1 Primary Faculty: Wadhwani; Secondary Faculty: Lubinski 10:30-10:45 Break 10:45-12:15 Paper Workshop 2 Primary Faculty: Mordhorst; Secondary Faculty: Wadhwani 12:15-1:30 Lunch 1:30-3:00 Paper Workshop 3 Primary Faculty: Lubinski; Secondary Faculty: Mordhorst 3:00-3:15 Break 3:15-4:00 Wrap Up |
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Learning objectives |
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The PhD seminar will be designed to allow participants to: 1. Understand the nature of historical approaches and how they compare to other types of ways of studying management and organizations 2. Understand the range of ways in which historical sources, methods, and perspectives can be engaged, including the epistemological assumptions involved in these choices and their implications for the types of research questions that can be addressed 3. Apply these methodological issues and choices to their own research interests through focused breakout groups. |
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Exam |
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Other |
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Start date |
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| 31/10/2016 | ||
End date |
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| 02/11/2016 | ||
Level |
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| PhD | ||
ECTS |
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| 3 ECTS (+ 1 ECTS if submission of working paper). When registering, please decide whether to hand in a working paper or not, see the Prerequisites above | ||
Language |
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| English | ||
Course Literature |
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| Anteby, M., & Molnar, V. (2012). Collective memory meets organizational identity: Remembering to forget in a firm's rhetorical history. Academy of Management Journal, 55(3), 515-540.Bucheli, M. and Wadhwani, R.D. Organizations in Time. History, Theory, Methods, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014).Decker, S., 2013. The silence of the archives: business history, post-colonialism and archival ethnography. Management & Organizational History, 8(2), pp.155-173.Hargadon, A.B. and Douglas, Y., 2001. When innovations meet institutions: Edison and the design of the electric light. Administrative science quarterly, 46(3), pp.476-501.Maclean, M., Harvey, C. and Clegg, S., 2015. Conceptualizing Historical Organization Studies. Academy of Management Review, pp.amr-2014. Marquis, C. and Tilcsik, A., 2013. Imprinting: Toward a multilevel theory. The Academy of Management Annals, 7(1), pp.195-245.Mordhorst M. From counterfactual history to counter-narrative history. Management & Organizational History. 2008 Feb 1;3(1):5-26.Mordhorst, M. (2014). Arla and Danish national identity–business history as cultural history. Business History, 56(1), 116-133.Rowlinson, M., Hassard, J., & Decker, S. (2014). Strategies for Organizational History: A Dialogue Between Historical Theory and Organization Theory. Academy of Management Review, 39 (3).Suddaby, R., Foster, W.M. and Trank, C.Q., 2010. Rhetorical history as a source of competitive advantage. Advances in Strategic Management, 27, pp.147-173.Sydow, J., Schreyögg, G. and Koch, J., 2009. Organizational path dependence: Opening the black box. Academy of Management Review, 34(4), pp.689-709.Wadhwani, R.D., Kurosawa, T. & Kipping, K. forthcoming. Beyond Chandler: A Revisionist Historiography of Business History. | ||
Fee |
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| DKK 3,900 - or DKK 5,200 if you hand in a working paper | ||
Minimum number of participants |
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| 19 | ||
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Maximum number of participants |
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| 25 | ||
Location |
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Copenhagen Business School Porcelænshaven 18 B 2000 Frederiksberg Room: S.023 |
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Contact information |
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PhD Support Katja Høeg Tingleff Tel: +45 38 15 28 39 E-mail: kht.research@cbs.dk |
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Registration deadline |
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| 19/09/2016 | ||
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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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