Research in Organisational Dynamics

Aims:

This two semester course will enable you to:

Content:

Topics covered will include: ‘classic’ perspectives on organisations; organisational design, contingency perspectives, control, and innovation; contemporary theorising into network forms, virtual organising, organisational ecologies, values, national culture and global organisations; and ‘weak’ / ‘strong’ organisations and the role of people improvising organising and their implications for understanding creativity, innovation and action.

Assessment:

2-hour exam (at the end of semester 1 - 65%) and an individual assignment 2,500 words (at the end of the semester 2, teaching period 35%).