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Theoretical & Critical Perspectives in Management Research

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Course Type Course Code No. Of Credits
Foundation Core SBP3PM102 4

Semester and Year Offered: Semester -1

Course Coordinator and Team: KanwalAnil,ValentinaKancharla,KalindiMaheshwari.

Email of course coordinator: Kanwal[at]aud[dot]ac[dot]in

Pre-requisites: Nil

Course Outcomes:

  1. After doing the course participants should be able to develop a holistic understanding of Organisations and Modern day management frameworks they operate in.
  2. Participants would understand and appreciate organisations and the impact of political economy.
  3. They will develop a good understanding of the contemporary issues in management Research.

Brief description of modules/ Main modules:

  • Unit 1: Understanding Organizations
  • Unit 2: Modern Management Frameworks
  • Unit 3: Organisation and the Political Economy
  • Unit 4: Organisation in the Institutional Context
  • Unit 5: Contemporary Issues in Management Research

Assessment Details with weights:

Reviews and presentation 30%
Essay 30%
Case analysis 30%
Class participation 10%

Reading List

Recommended Text

  1. Bacharach, S. B. (1989). Organizational theories: some criteria for evaluation. Academy of Management Review, 14(4), 496-515.
  2. Bagozzi, R. P., & Phillips, L. W. (1982). Representing and testing organizational theories: A holistic construal. Administrative Science Quarterly, 459-489.
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  4. Breeze, J. D. (1981). Henri Fayol's basic tools of administration. Academy of Management Proceedings, 1, 101-105.
  5. Coase, R. (1998). The new institutional economics. The American Economic Review, 88(2), 72-74.
  6. Demsetz, H. (2000). The theory of the firm revisited. The Theory of the firm. Critical perspectives on business and management, 4, 102-122.
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  9. Hamel, G., &Prahalad, C. K.(1990).The Core Competence of the Organisation, Harvard Business Review, 68(3), 79-91
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  21. Scott, J. (2000). Rational choice theory. In Browning, G., Halcli, A. & Webster, F. (Eds), Understanding Contemporary Society: Theories of the Present, Sage Publications Ltd, London, 126-138.
  22. Sen, A. (1984). The transition from feudalism to capitalism. Economic and Political Weekly, PE50-PE66.
  23. Taylor, F. W., (2006). Principles of scientific management. Cosimo Classics
  24. Thietart, R. A., &Forgues, B. (1995). Chaos theory and organization. Organization Science, 6(1), 19-31.
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