DB1110 – Advanced Research Topics in Management (DBA Research Area)
Doctoral Business Administration
Core Course
DB1110 – Advanced Research Topics in Management (DBA Research Area)
Course Unit Code: DB1110
Type Of Unit: Core
Level of Course Unit: Doctoral
Year of Study: First year
Semester: Spring
Number of ECTS Credits: 10
Mode of Delivery
Face to Face
Prerequisites
Three MBA/MSc level courses in the chosen management research area
Each student will read and analyse 5 seminal (classic) and 5 recent papers in their chosen management research area and for each paper prepare a critical review in which the following questions are answered:
1. What are the main research questions of the paper? Why are they important?
2. How does the paper challenge current boundary conditions or expose limitations?
3. What theory/framework is being used and what are they key assumptions in the paper?
4. What are the central hypotheses/propositions/arguments? Are they valid?
5. What is the sample and research design?
6. What are the key constructs/variables in the paper?
7. Is the empirical method appropriate?
8. What are the findings? How useful/interesting
9. What are the policy, research and practical implications of the paper?
10. What are the limitations of the research paper; did the authors addressed them?
11. What future research could be derived from the paper?
Course Objectives
This doctoral course reviews current research in business administration with an emphasis on the participating students’ chosen areas of for their own research. The course targets students with an active interest in behavioural research that seek to use insights from organizational behaviour in their own research.
Basic knowledge of behavioural research is therefore required. On the basis of review/conceptual articles as well as exemplars of empirical research, the course covers a series of key themes in organizational behaviour (e.g., teams, leadership, creativity & innovation, social networks).
The format is a combination of short lectures and interactive discussion to develop an in-depth understanding of the current state of play in a series of subareas of organizational behaviour.
Learning Outcomes
On completion of the course the students are expected to have:
- Mastered the classic and recent literature in their chosen functional area of business administration with particular focus on organizational behaviour (e.g., teams, leadership, creativity & innovation, social networks)
- Constructed an inventory of advanced research topics in this area
- Identified the relevant theories and research methodologies employed in their chosen functional area
- Articulated a research topic within their chosen functional area
- Produced a critical review of the relevant literature identifying gaps and limitations
- Propose ways in which these gaps and limitations can be addressed through further research
- Acquire actionable knowledge that can be translated into the students own research efforts and research outputs
Course Content
Course Features
Reading, analysis and critical review of 10 papers in each student’s area of management research, followed by an in-class presentation and discussion. All students are expected to actively participate in class, regardless of who is leading the discussion for a particular reading. Students are expected to have read all required papers before the class time and be ready to talk about the main message, theory, methods, and possible extensions of each paper.
Written critical review of 10 selected papers and in class presentation and defence in front of the class.
Readings
A. Required general management reading:
Buelens, M. et al. (2011). Organisational Behaviour, 4th
edition, McGraw-Hill.
Scott, W. Richard, and Gerald F. Davis. Organizations
and organizing: Rational, natural and open systems
perspectives. Routledge, 2015.
Shafritz, J. M., Ott, J. S., & Jang, Y. S. (2015). Classics
of organization theory. Cengage Lear
B. Ten research area papers for analysis and critical review to be chosen by student and approved by instructor
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