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Course
Perspectives in Management Studies

Faculty
Professor Bent Meier Sørensen; Professor Kaspar Villadsen; Professor Ester Barinaga, and Associate Professor Stefan Schwarzkopf, all from the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, CBS.

Course Coordinator
Professor Kaspar Villadsen

Prerequisites
Students must be enrolled in a PhD program. The course is aimed at students with a social scientific background.

No later than 14 November 2016, students must submit a 5–6 pages (i.e. 2–4,000 words) text in which they outline their project.

During the course, each student must 1) make a short (10 min) presentation of his/her project and how it relates to the course literature, and 2) comment on other students’ texts. A list of who should present when and comment on whose work will be distributed approximately one week after enrollment deadline.

It is a precondition for receiving the course diploma that the student attends the whole course.

Aim
The course offers an introduction to contemporary management studies, emphasizing critical perspectives and points of contact (and possible clashes) between academic studies of management, entrepreneurship, politics, history and philosophy. The course provides an invitation for students to discuss various perspectives on management and to experiment with their applicability in empirical analysis. Also, the course will discuss how different perspectives on management relate to empirical material.

Course content
The course consists of two interrelated parts: (1) introductions to various theoretical and analytical perspectives on management; (2) discussions of individual PhD projects where students present their projects and receive feedback from peers and the course coordinator.

Teaching style
The teaching style of the course is a mixture of lectures and student presentations. A large part of the course consists of dialogues in which students are expected to be very active.

Lecture plan

Monday 28 November

9.00-9.30:
Welcome and introduction (Villadsen)

9.30-12.00:
Critical management research and Michel Foucault (Villadsen)

12.00-12.45:
Lunch

12.45-15.00:
Connecting the morning class to students' research projects

Tuesday 29 November

9.45-10.00:
Wrap-up of previous day and intro to this day (Villadsen)

10.00-12.45:
Organisational entrepreneurship (Barinaga)

12.45-13.30:
Lunch

13.30-15.30:
Connecting the morning class to students' research projects

Wednesday 30 November

9.00-9.15:
Wrap-up of previous day and intro to this day (Villadsen)

9.15-12.00:
Historical Perspectives in Management & Organization Research – the Case of Economic Theology (Schwartskopf)

12.00-12.45:
Lunch

12.45-15.00:
Connecting the morning class to students' research projects

Thursday 1 December

9.00-9.15:
Wrap-up of previous day and intro to this day (Villadsen)

9.15-12.00:
Leadership, theology and profanation (Sørensen)

12.00-12.45:
Lunch

12.45-15:00:
Connecting the morning class to students' research projects

19.30-:
Dinner

Friday 2 December

9.00-9.15:
Wrap-up of previous day and intro to this day (Villadsen)

9.15-12.00:
Leadership, power, body, and resistance? (Sørensen & Villadsen)

12.00-12.45:
Lunch

12.45-14.00:
Connecting the morning class to students' research projects

14.00-14.30:
Evaluation


Learning objectives
The course will introduce a number of different perspectives on the study of management and invites students to experiment with these perspectives in their own projects. The objective is to help students to navigate in the academic landscape of management studies and to help them to identify fruitful academic resources for their subsequent study of management and related disciplines.

Exam
N/A

Other
N/A

Start date
28/11/2016

End date
02/12/2016

Level
PhD

ECTS
5

Language
English

Course Literature
PRELIMINARY COURSE LITERATUREAgamben, Giorgio (2007) Profanations. New York, NY: Zone Books. (Ch on profanation).Foucault, M. (2007) Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at Cólege de France. New York: Palgrave (Chpt 1).Hill, L. (2001)‘The hidden theology of Adam Smith’, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 8(1).Hjorth, Daniel (2005) ‘Organizational Entrepreneurship: With de Certeau on Creating Heterotopias (or Spaces for Play)’, Journal of Management Inquiry 14(4): 386-398.Hjorth, Daniel (2007) ‘Lessons from Iago: Narrating the event of Entrepreneurship’, Journal of Business Venturing 22: 712–732.Hjorth, Daniel (2010) ‘Thickness/realism – Openness/usefulness – Participation/relevance: reflections On the difference a narrative approach makes’, in M. Ericson (ed.) A Narrative Approach to Business Growth. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.Karlsen, M.P. & Villadsen, K. & (2008) ‘Who Should Do the Talking? The proliferation of dialogue as governmental technology’, Culture & Organization, 14(4).Martyna Sliwa, Sverre Spoelstra, Bent Meier Sørensen and Chris Land (2012) ‘Profaning the sacred in leadership studies: a reading of Murakami’s A Wild Sheep Chase’, Organization.Sørensen, B. M. & Villadsen, K. (2015) ‘The Naked Manager: The Ethical Practice of an Anti-Establishment Boss: When the Managerial Body Speaks’, Organization.Sørensen, B. M. & Villadsen, K. ’See Anybody can Criticize Me, I Have No Problem with That!: Working with a rebellions and norm-defying boss’, Human Relations (under review).Schwarzkopf, S. (2012) ‘The Market Order as Metaphysical Loot: Theology and the contested legitimacy of consumer capitalism’, Organization, 19(3).Villadsen, K. (2011) ‘Modern Welfare and 'Good Old' Philanthropy: A forgotten or a troubling trajectory?’, Public Management Review, 13(8). Villadsen, K. (2010) ‘Governmentality’, in: M. Tadajewski, P. Maclaran, E. Persons & M. Parker (eds.) Key Concepts in Critical Management Studies. London: Sage Publications.

Fee
DKK 6,500 (covers the course, coffee/tea, lunch and one dinner)

Minimum number of participants
11

Maximum number of participants
15

Location
Copenhagen Business School
Porcelænshaven 18 B
2000 Frederiksberg
Room: S.023

Contact information
PhD Support
Katja Høeg Tingleff
Tel: +45 38 15 28 39
E-mail: kht.research@cbs.dk

Registration deadline
14/10/2016

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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