2013/2014 KAN-SOL_OS46 Organizations and Society
English Title | |
Organizations and Society |
Course information |
|
Language | English |
Exam ECTS | 7.5 ECTS |
Type | Mandatory |
Level | Full Degree Master |
Duration | One Quarter |
Course period | Spring |
Time Table | Please see course schedule at e-Campus |
Study board |
Study Board for MSc in Economics and Business
Administration
|
Course coordinator | |
|
|
Course responsible:
Susanne Boch Waldorff (sbw.ioa@cbs.dk)
Course secretary: Mette Ellekrog (mbe.ioa@cbs.dk) |
|
Main academic disciplines | |
|
|
Last updated on 13-08-2013 |
Learning objectives | |||||||||||||||||||||||
At the exam the student should
demonstrate ability to:
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Examination | |||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Course content and structure | |||||||||||||||||||||||
This course focuses on organizations as actors in a broader
society. It examines processes by which organizations’ strategies
and practices are influenced by institutionalized meanings and
emerging concerns in their environments. A main tenet of the course
is that institutional pressure and complexity – in terms of
different institutional logics - create challenges and ethical
dilemmas, and organizations respond differently to these
challenges. The institutional environment also poses particular
demands on managerial responsiveness and actions. The course
exemplifies responses to institutional pressure and complexity by
investigating how organizations (public as well as private) deal
with questions of sustainability.
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Teaching methods | |||||||||||||||||||||||
The course combines lectures with case-method teaching. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Expected literature | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Bergström, O. & Diedrich, A. (2011) Exercising Social Responsibility in Downsizing: Enrolling and Mobi_lizing Actors at a Swedish High-Tech Company’, Organization Studies 32(7), pp. 897–919.
Scott, W.R. (1992). Conceptions of Environments. In
“Organizations, Rational, Natural, and Open Systems”. Prentice-Hal,
Inc.
Waldorff, S. B. (2013). Accounting for Organizational
Innovations: Mobilizing institutional logics in translation.
Scandinavian Journal of Management. Waldorff, S.B. & Justesen, L. (2013). Dong
Energy. In Justesen, L. & Waldorff, S. B. (Eds). 2012.
Strategies in Action: A case collection. Frederiksberg:
Samfundslitteratur.
Warburton, N. (1999): Philosophy: The Basics. Routledge, London New York, pp. 39-68 |