Management and Organization in the Creative Society:

The course lays the foundation for understanding and dealing with the challenges of an innovation economy (including the immaterial- and the experience economy) in a creative society. This foundation takes its point of departure in the conceptual language of business administration, with particular focus on management- and organization theory. This includes a particular analytical strategy and method that characterizes business administrative analyses, which in this course is also reflexively identified and problematised. The course identifies, defines, and elaborates on the basic approach applied in the OIE program. Students are introduced to problems that characterize organizational innovation and entrepreneurship and initiate the development of skills needed in analyzing and dealing with such problems.

The course introduces the student to the emphasis on experimentation and active participation that will characterize the OIE program. This is backed up by using cases and by inviting the students to a dialogical participation in lectures. Lectures (classroom-) will thus be mixed with workshops, small assignments and student presentations.

Innovation & Art_Aesthetics:

This course will contextualize a resent shift towards an aestheticised business, i.e., towards a situation where globalization has forced our economy to look for new means of differentiation and found aesthetics as an important way forward. The course interests the students in the learning potentials identified in the crossing of business and art, such as on how to organize collective creation processes. The recent emphasis on branding, on design, and on the experience as adding value to the customer/citizen is also analyzed in order to learn how this crossing provide means for strengthening the innovative/entrepreneurial capacity of organizations.

Management and Organizations in the Creative Society:

1. Successful Innovation Through Artful Process (Austin and Devin), source: Leader to Leader (course compandium)
2. Paradigms, Metaphors and Puzzle Solving in Organization Theory (G. Morgan), source: ASQ 1980 (course compandium)
3. Can Ideas be Capital: factors of production in the post-industrial economy – a review and critique (Dean and Kretschmer), source: AMR, 32(2): 573-594 (course compandium)
4. Managing Creatives: paradoxical approaches to identity regulation (Gotsi, Andriopolous, Lewis, and Ingram), source: Human Relations, 63(6): 781-805 (course compendium)
5. Managing For Creativity (Florida and Goodnight), source: HBR, July-August 2005 (course compendium)
6. Making up Managers – bureaucracy, enterprise and the liberal art of separation (du Gay), source: British Journal of Sociology, 45(4): 655-672 (course compandium)
7. Organizational Entrepreneurship (Hjorth), source: Journal of Management Inquiry, 14(4): 386-398 (course compandium)
8. The Social Foundation of the Bureaucratic Order (Kallinikos), source: Organization 11(1): 13-36 (course compandium)
9. Towards the Creative Society (Michinski and Stevens), source: Foresight, 2(1): 85-94 (course compandium)
10. Lines of Authority: readings of foundational texts on the profession of management (O’Connor), source: Journal of Management History, 2(3): 26-49 (course compandium)
11. Hjorth, D. and Johannisson, B. (2007) “Learning as an Entrepreneurial Process”, in Fayolle, A. (ed.) Handbook of Research in Entrepreneurship Education. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 46-66 (course compandium)
12. Rationale behind OIE (Sitescape)
13. Note on Imaginary Organizations (Sitescape)
14. Hjorth, D. (2003) Rewriting Entrepreneurship – For a new perspective on organisational creativity. Copenhagen/Malmö: CBS Press/Liber.
15. Hjorth, D. and Kostera, M. (2007) Entrepreneurship and the Experience Economy. Copenhagen: CBS Press.

Innovation & Art_Aesthetics:

Postrel, Virginia. (2004.) The Substance of Style: How the rise of aesthetic value is remaking commerce, culture and consciousness. New York, NY: Harper Perennial.

Austin, Robert D. (2000.) “The People’s Light and Theatre Company.” HBS No. 600-055. Boston: Harvard Business School Publishing.

Austin, Robert D. and Daniela Beyersdorfer. (2006.) “Vipp A/S.” HBS No. 607-052. Boston: Harvard Business School Publishing.

Austin, Robert D. and Shannon O’Donnell. (2007). ”Paul Robertson and the Medici String Quartet.” HBS No. 607-083. Boston: Harvard Business School Publishing.

Austin, Robert D., Shannon O’Donnell and Dorte Krogh. (2009.) “Moods of Norway.” HBS No. 609-106. Boston: Harvard Business School Publishing.

Austin, Robert D., Shannon O’Donnell and Silje Kamille Friis. (2006.) “e-Types A/S.” HBS No. 606-118. Boston: Harvard Business School Publishing.

Austin, Robert D., Silje Kamille Friis and Erin E. Sullivan. (2007.) ”Design: More than a Cool Chair.” HBS No. 607-026. Boston: Harvard Business School Publishing.

Koehn, Nancy F., Marya Besharov and Kathrine Miller. (2008.) “Starbucks Coffee Company in the 21st Century. HBS No. 808-019. Boston: Harvard Business School Publishing.

Moon, Youngme, Vincent Dessain and Anders Sjoman. (2004.) “Alessi: Evolution of an Italian Design Factory (B).” HBS No. 504-019. Boston: Havard Business School Publishing.

Moon, Youngme, Vincent Dessain and Anders Sjoman. (2004.) “Alessi: Evolution of an Italian Design Factory (C).” HBS No. 504-020. Boston: Havard Business School Publishing.

Thomke, Stefan. (2001.) “BMW AG: The Digital Car Project (A). HBS No. 699-044. Boston: Havard Business School Publishing.

Thomke, Stefan and Barbara Feinberg. (2009.) “Design Thinking and Innovation at Apple.” HBS No. 600-066. Boston: Harvard Business School Publishing.

Verganti, Roberto. (2010.) “Design-Driven Innovation: An Introduction.” HBS No. 366-6BC. Boston: Harvard Business School Publishing.

Allison, Melissa. “Starbucks tests new names for stores,” The Seattle Times. July 16, 2009: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009479123_starbucks16.html

Austin, Rob and Lee Devin. (2003). “Chapter 5. Artful Making as a Part of the Shift to a Knowledge Economy.” Artful Making: What Managers Need to Know About How Artists Work. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Financial Times Prentice Hall: pp. 57-79.

Austin, Robert D. and Lee Devin. (2003). “Chapter 10. Artful Making is Fiscally Responsible.” Artful Making: What Managers Need to Know About How Artists Work. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Financial Times Prentice Hall: pp 149-158.

Barnes, Brooks. “An Animated Film is Created Through Internet Consensus” by Brooks Barnes, New York Times, July 15, 2009: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/16/movies/16mass.html?emc=eta1

Bennis, Warren and Patricia Ward Biederman. (1997). “Troupe Disney.” Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration, Cambridge, MA: Perseus: 31-62.

Brown, Tim. “Design Thinking.” Boston: Harvard Business Review, June 2008. CBS Library link: http://esc-web.lib.cbs.dk/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bth&AN=32108052&site=ehost-live&scope=site

Crawford, Matthew B. “Shop Class as Soulcraft.” The New Atlantis, Summer 2006: 7-24. Also available online: http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/shop-class-as-soulcraft

Fine, Gary Alan. “The Culture of Production: Aesthetic Choices and Constraints in Culinary Work.” The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 97, No. 5, March 1992: 1268-1294. CBS library link: http://esc-web.lib.cbs.dk/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bth&AN=9210192716&site=ehost-live&scope=site

Merholz, Peter. “Why the Starbucks ‘15th Ave’ Store is Doomed to Fail,” Harvard Business Publishing, July 28, 2009: http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/merholz/2009/07/why-the-starbucks-15th-ave-sto.html

Nussbaum, Bruce. “The Power of Design.” Business Week, May 17, 2004. Available online: http://www.businessweek.com/pdf/240512BWePrint2.pdf

Verganti, Roberto. “Innovating Through Design.” Harvard Business Review, December 2006: 114-122. CBS library link: http://esc-web.lib.cbs.dk/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bth&AN=23081453&site=ehost-live&scope=site

“A Vision for the Arts at Harvard,” from Report of the Task Force on the Arts, Harvard University, December 2008: pp 1-19.

Winterson, Jeanette. “The secret life of us.” The Guardian, Monday 25 November 2002. http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2002/nov/25/art.artsfeatures1

Winterson, Jeanette. “Chapter 1. Art Objects.” Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 1995: pp. 3-21. (Optional reading)