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: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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Please note that the litterature is guiding.
Management and Organizations in the Creative Society:
Successful Innovation Through Artful Process (Austin and Devin),
source: Leader to Leader (course compandium)
- Paradigms, Metaphors and Puzzle Solving in Organization Theory
(G. Morgan), source: ASQ 1980 (course compandium)
- 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)
- Managing Creatives: paradoxical approaches to identity
regulation (Gotsi, Andriopolous, Lewis, and Ingram), source: Human
Relations, 63(6): 781-805 (course compendium)
- Managing For Creativity (Florida and Goodnight), source: HBR,
July-August 2005 (course compendium)
- Making up Managers – bureaucracy, enterprise and the liberal
art of separation (du Gay), source: British Journal of Sociology,
45(4): 655-672 (course compandium)
- Organizational Entrepreneurship (Hjorth), source: Journal of
Management Inquiry, 14(4): 386-398 (course compandium)
- The Social Foundation of the Bureaucratic Order (Kallinikos),
source: Organization 11(1): 13-36 (course compandium)
- Towards the Creative Society (Michinski and Stevens), source:
Foresight, 2(1): 85-94 (course compandium)
- 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)
- 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)
- Rationale behind OIE (Sitescape)
- Note on Imaginary Organizations (Sitescape)
- Hjorth, D. (2003) Rewriting Entrepreneurship – For a new
perspective on organisational creativity. Copenhagen/Malmö:
CBS Press/Liber.
- Hjorth, D. and Kostera, M. (2007) Entrepreneurship and the
Experience Economy. Copenhagen: CBS Press.
- Latham-Koenig, A. L. (1983) "Changing values in a
postindustrial society", The McKinsey Quarterly, Autumn
Løwendahl, B. and Revang, Ø. (1998) "Challenges to existing
strategy theory in a postindustrial society", Strategic
Management Journal, 19: 755-773
Innovation & Art_Aesthetics:
Note: If you have any difficulty accessing course
materials, please do not hesitate to ask for help! It is
important you access, read and prepare materials in advance of
class discussion.
Purchase Book at CBS Bookstore:
Postrel, Virginia. (2004.) The Substance of Style: How the
rise of aesthetic value is remaking commerce, culture and
consciousness. New York, NY: Harper Perennial.
Purchase Cases through Harvard Business Publishing online
(see box below):
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.
Goodwin, Constance and Rochelle Mucha. (2010.) “Aesthetic
Intelligence: What Business Can Learn from the Arts.” HBS Product #
ROT110. 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.
Suri, Jane Fulton and R. Michael Hendrix. (2010.) “Developing
Design Sensibilities.” HBS Product # ROT113. Boston: Harvard
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.
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
Download pdf files or access links on CBSLearn:
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. (2010.) “Not just a pretty face:
economic drivers behind the arts-in-business movement,” Journal
of Business Strategy, Vol. 31, No. 4: 59-69.
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.
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
O’Donnell, Shannon and Lee Devin. (forthcoming)
“Collective Creativity: E-Teams and E-TeamWork,” Handbook of
Organisational Entrepreneurship, Daniel Hjorth, ed.
Stross, Randall, “The Auteur vs. the Committee,” New York
Times, July 23, 2011. Available online:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/technology/what-apple-has-that-google-doesnt-an-auteur.html?_r=1&ref=stevenpjobs
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
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