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Course

CANCELLED: How to study Organization, Management and Power (formerly '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 October 2017, 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 the participants a range of different analytical approaches for studying organization and management. We will emphasize critical perspectives and give attention to how power is always an integral part of organizing and managing. Another focal point on the course is to approach organizational phenomena and ways of managing as not self-evident and timeless but as rooted in a particular historical context. For example, we will draw some surprising lines between contemporary organizations and Christian ideas and practices. We will also discuss how management practices may involve power, and how this can be studied at the level of practice. Another theme to be explored is the potentials of disruption and resistance in terms of alternative forms of organizing, including entrepreneurship ‘from below’. The course will bring thinkers like Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben and Erving Goffman in contact with concrete empirical cases from the world of organizing. We will include discussion of how different materials – architecture, images and film may be used for analysis and theorizing. The course provides an invitation for students to discuss various perspectives on management and to experiment with their applicability in empirical analysis. There will be assigned space for in depth discussions of the participants’ projects and their challenges in constructing analytical design, choosing theory and carry out analysis.

Course content

The course consists of two interrelated parts: (1) introductions to various theoretical and analytical perspectives on organization and 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

Time	Theme	Lecturer
Monday 23 October
9.00 - 9.30	Welcome and introduction	Kaspar Villadsen
9.30 - 12.00	Critical management research and Michel Foucault	Kaspar Villadsen
12.00 - 12.45	Lunch
12.45 - 16.30	Connecting to the morning class and discussion of students' research projects
Tuesday 24 October
9.45 - 10.00	Wrap-up of previous day and intro to this day	Kaspar Villadsen
10.00 - 12.45	Organisational entrepreneurship	Ester Barinaga
12.45 - 13.30	Lunch
13.30 - 16.30	Connecting to the morning class and discussion of students' research projects
Wednesday 25 October
9.00 - 9.15	Wrap-up of previous day and intro to this day	Kaspar Villadsen
9.15 - 12.00	Historical Perspectives in Management & Organization Research – the Case of Economic Theology	Stefan Schwarzkopf
12.00 - 12.45	Lunch
12.45 - 16.30	Leadership, power, body, and resistance?	Bent Meier Sørensen & Kaspar Villadsen
Thursday 26 October
9.00 - 9.15	Wrap-up of previous day and intro to this day	Kaspar Villadsen
9.15 - 12.00	Leadership, theology and profanation	Bent Meier Sørensen
12.00 - 12.45	Lunch
12.45 - 16.30	Connecting to the morning class and discussion of students' research projects and evaluation

Learning objectives

The course introduces a series of different analytical approaches to the study of organizing and management, and it invites students to experiment with these approaches in their own projects. The objective is to help students to navigate in the academic landscape and to help them to identify fruitful academic resources helpful for strengthening their on-going or subsequent PhD projects.

Exam

N/A

Other

Start date

23/10/2017

End date

26/10/2017

Level

PhD

ECTS

Language

English

Course Literature

Agamben, Giorgio (2007) Profanations. New York, NY: Zone Books. (Ch on profanation).Barinaga, E. Forthcoming. “Tinkering with space: The organizational practices of a nascent social venture.” Organization Studies. Barinaga, E. 2016. “Engaged Scholarship: Taking responsibility for the politics of our method mediations.” In Landström, H., Parhankangas, A. & Riot, P. (eds.), Challenging entrepreneurship research. London: Routledge.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).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 and lunch)

Minimum number of participants

Maximum number of participants

Location

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

Contact information

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

Registration deadline

11/09/2017

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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