STRUCTURE: WORKSHOPS, REFLECTION AND PERSPECTIVE
This is an advanced course. It builds on knowledge at level with introducing texts in organisational theory, operations management, and management control
The following description of the course is indicative to provide a ‘feel’ for it.
A. Systems and networks
1. Czarniawska, B. (2004) On Time, Space and Action Nets, Organization 11(6) pp. 773-791
2. Pidd, M. (2003) Soft systems methodology in Tools for Thinking. Modelling in Management Science (chapter 5)
3. Ackoff, R. L. (1994). Systems thinking and thinking systems. System Dynamics Review, 10(2-3), 175-188.
B. Management technology and representation
4. Czarniawska, B., & Mouritsen, J. (2009). What is the object of management? How management technologies help to create manageable objects. In C. Chapman, D.J. Cooper, & P. Miller (Eds.), Accounting, Organisations and Institutions. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
5. Godin, B. (2015). Models of innovation: Why models of innovation are models, or what work is being done in calling them models? Social Studies of Science, 45(4), 570–596.
6. Christiansen, J.K. and Varnes, C.J. (2009) Formal Rules in Product Development: Sensemaking of Structured Approaches, Journal of Product Innovation Management 26: 502-519
7. Callon, M. (2002). Writing and (Re)writing Devices as Tools for Managing Complexity. In J. Law & A. Mol (Eds.), Complexities. Social Studies of Knowledge Practices (Durham and, pp. 191–217). Durham and London: Duke University Press.
8. Giraudeau, M. (2008). The drafts of strategy: Opening up plans and their uses. Long Range Planning, 41(3), 291–308.
9. Grabner, I., & Moers, F. (2013). Management control as a system or a package? Conceptual and empirical issues. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 38(6–7), 407–419.
C. Boundary and inter-organisational relations
10. Stabell, C.B. & Fjeldstad, Ø.D. (1998) Configuring value for competitive advantage: on chains, shops and networks, Strategic Management Journal (pp. 413-437)
11. Miller, P. and O'Leary, T. (2007) 'Mediating instruments and making markets: Capital budgeting, science and the economy', Accounting, Organizations and Society, 32 (7/8), 701-734. 12. Lambert, D.M. and Cooper, M.C, Issues in Supply Chain Management, Industrial Marketing Management 29, 65–83 (2000)
13. Thrane, S., & Hald, K.S. (2006). The emergence of boundaries and accounting in supply fields: The dynamics of integration and fragmentation. Management Accounting Research, 17(3), 288-314.
D. Performance, Valuation and performativity
14. Corvellec, H. (2003) Narratives of organizational performance, i Czarniawska, B. & Gagliardi, P. (ed) Narratives We Organize By John Benjamin Publishing Company pp. 115-133
15. Espeland, W. N. and Sauder, M. (2007) Rankings and Reactivity: How Public Measures Recreate Social Worlds, American Journal of Sociology, 113 (1), 1-40.
16. Mouritsen, J., Hansen, A. and Hansen, C. Ø. (2009) 'Short and Long Translations. Management accounting calculations and innovation management', Accounting, Organizations and Society, 34 (6/7), 738-754.
17. Heuts, Frank, and Annemarie Mol. 2013. “What Is a Good Tomato? A Case of Valuing in Practice.” Valuation Studies 1 (2): 125–46. doi:10.3384/vs.2001-5992.1312125.
18. Vatin, Francois. 2013. “Valuation as Evaluating and Valorizing.” Valuation Studies 1 (1): 31–50.
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