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2011/2012 KAN-OI01 Management and Organization in the Creative Society co-arranged with Innovation & Art_Aesthetics
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| Management and Organization in the Creative Society co-arranged with Innovation & Art_Aesthetics |
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| Language | English |
| Point | 15 ECTS (450 SAT) |
| Type | Mandatory |
| Level | Full Degree Master |
| Duration | One Semester |
| Time Table | Please see course schedule at e-Campus |
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Study Board for MSc of Social Science |
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| Last updated on 29 maj 2012 | |
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Management and Organizations in the Creative Society: 1:Get familiar with basic concepts within management- and organization studies 2: Understand how these are applied in analysis of problems related to organizational innovation and entrepreneurship 3:Get familiar with and understand the specific approach and method used in analysis of such problems 4:On the basis of this conceptual language and analytical approach, identify issues and opportunities related to innovation and entrepreneurship 5:Understand the particular level of analysis central to OIE – the organizational (meso) level, and grasp the implications of this Innovation & Art_Aesthetics: 1:Understand the role of aesthetics in business competitiveness 2:Understand the role of aesthetics in business creativity 3:Identify the methods and forms that the ‘conversation’ between aesthetics and economy take in organizational practices (such as in design intensive companies), and understand how this conversation can be explored for innovative purposes 4:Understand how to apply this in organizing innovation processes in organizational contexts | |||||||||||||||
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| This exam is a joint exam for Management and Organization in the Creative Society and Innovation & Art_Aesthetics. | |||||||||||||||
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| Examination | |||||||||||||||
| The exam is an individual 72-hour written assignment (max. 15 pages) based on a set of questions assigned by the examiner. | |||||||||||||||
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In order to achieve the grade of 12, the student must fulfill the following criteria: • Select and apply basic concepts within management- and organization studies to or-ganizational innovation and entrepreneurship • Demonstrate thorough knowledge of key concepts and theoretical perspectives dealt with in the two courses, and effectively apply these in analysis • Demonstrate basic knowledge of how to analytically approach problems and challenges of organizational innovation and entrepreneurship • Demonstrate a clear understanding of what implications follow from the OIE-approach to innovation and entrepreneurship and its specific level of analysis (i.e. the meso- or organizational level) • Demonstrate understanding of the role of creativity in business • Demonstrate knowledge of how to apply methods of organizational creativity based on the “conversation” between business aesthetics and management. • Persuasively explain and defend a position on why and how aesthetics matter to the creation of business value, based on course materials. | |||||||||||||||
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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. | |||||||||||||||
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Management and Organizations in the Creative Society: Lectures, workshops, assignments and student presentations. Innovation & Art_Aesthetics: Teaching takes place in large classes, but is driven by cases from design intensive companies. Guest lectures from representatives of design intensive companies and from art are given priority. Case issues will often be elaborated upon with videos and exercises in class. | |||||||||||||||
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Please note that the litterature is guiding.
Innovation & Art_Aesthetics: Obtaining Harvard Business School Publishing Materials The above listed readings labeled “HBS case” or “HBS Product” must be acquired online from Harvard Business School Publishing. You can access the site to download these materials here (once you register on the site): http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/access/9836290 At this site you will need to use a credit card to purchase copyrighted materials at the discounted student rate, which you will then download in PDFs and be able to print as is convenient. Please be sure to use this link, not the main HBSP website, so that you get the discount associated with the course. After you register, you can get to the course again by doing the following: 1. Visit hbsp.harvard.edu and log in. 2. Click My Courses, and then click this course name: Innovation and Art/Aesthetics 2011 | |||||||||||||||