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2015/2016  KAN-CSCBO1096U  Creative Business project and Methods for Creative Industry Analysis

English Title
Creative Business project and Methods for Creative Industry Analysis

Course information
Language English
Course ECTS 15 ECTS
Type Mandatory
Level Full Degree Master
Duration One Semester
Start time of the course Spring
Timetable Course schedule will be posted at calendar.cbs.dk
Study board
Study Board for MSc of Social Science
Course coordinator
  • José Ossandón - Department of Organization (IOA)
Main academic disciplines
  • Sociology
Last updated on 14-08-2015
Learning objectives
To achieve the grade 12, students should meet the following learning objectives with no or only minor mistakes or errors:
  • formulate a relevant research question concerning a creative organization
  • select appropriate data sources and gain access to them
  • describe and select among a range of data collection and dada analysis techniques
  • combine such techniques in collecting and analyzing data
  • integrate empirical finding with theoretical elements into a coherent and feasible research report
  • formulate strategic recommendations based on the findings
Examination
Creative Business project and Methods for Creative Industry Analysis:
Exam ECTS 15
Examination form Oral exam based on written product

In order to participate in the oral exam, the written product must be handed in before the oral exam; by the set deadline. The grade is based on an overall assessment of the written product and the individual oral performance.
Individual or group exam Group exam, max. 5 students in the group
The oral exam is individual. If the project is written individually it must be of max. 20 pages
Size of written product Max. 40 pages
Assignment type Project
Duration
Written product to be submitted on specified date and time.
20 min. per student, including examiners' discussion of grade, and informing plus explaining the grade
Grading scale 7-step scale
Examiner(s) Internal examiner and external examiner
Exam period Summer
Make-up exam/re-exam
Same examination form as the ordinary exam
If a student is ill during the regular oral exam, he/she will be able to re-use the project at the make-up exam. If a student is ill during the writing of the project and did not contribute to the project, the make-up exam can be written individually or in groups (provided that other students are taking the make-up/re-exam). If the student did not pass the regular exam, he/she must make a new revised project (confer advice from the examiner) and hand it in on a new deadline specified by the secretariat.
Course content and structure

In this course, students become familiar with a range of methodological techniques and learn to combine them into a coherent and feasible research project. 

 

The structure of the course combines two dimensions:

  

Methods for Creative Industry Analysis

 

The course presents core analytical elements such as: formulating research problem and question, research design, data collection, data analysis, visualization and reporting. Th course covers a variety of techniques and helps students make choices about which techniques to use in different situations. 
 

Creative Business Project

 

Students grouped in research teams conduct a research project. The Creative Business Project analyzes a specific firm within the creative industries using qualitative and/or quantitative methods with the objective of formulating strategic recommendations to the firm based on the research findings. The Creative Business Project offers opportunities for the students to design and conduct their studies according to their own interests and to do work in teams and with companies. Creative Business Project combines, integrates and otherwise improves the analytical skills developed during the earlier studies and in the course work of the first year of CBP.
Teaching methods
Three types of teaching activities are used in this course. Key concepts in research methods are introduced in whole class lectures. The class is divided in smaller groups in workshops, where teams present and critically asses their research method strategies. Research teams meet their assigned supervisor in academic supervisions. Supervisors are members of CBS’ academic staff assigned to each group whose task is to inspire, initiate and help facilitate the project work, including pointing to relevant literature and help discuss selected theory or theories and method or methods applied.
Expected literature

Please note that the literature list is guiding 

1) Introduction: creative business and social research

Stark, D. (2009): The Sense of Dissonance – Accounts of Worth in Economic Life, Chapter 1, pp. 1-31, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.

2) Epistemologies and philosophy of science

Alvesson, Mats, and Kaj Sköldberg (2009). Reflexive methodology: New vistas for qualitative research. Sage. Ch. 2.

Justesen, Lise Nederland, and Nanna Mik-Meyer (2012). Qualitative Research Methods in Organisation Studies. Gyldendal. Ch. 1

3) From problem to research question

Booth, Wayne C., Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams (2003). The craft of research. University of Chicago Press, 2003. Ch. 4.

Cresswell, J.W. (2009). “Research Questions and Hypotheses”, Chapter 7 in Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed Methods Approaches, edited

by John Creswell.

4) Data collection 1: interviews

Gubrium, J., & Holstein, A. (2001). Active interviewing. In Qualitative research methods, edited by Darin Weinberg, Blackwell, ch. 6.

Warren, C. (2012) Interviewing as social interaction in The SAGE Handbook of Interview Research: The Complexity of the Craft edited by Jaber Gubrium et al Sage.

Eriksson, P., and Kovalainen, A. Qualitative methods in business research. Sage, 2008. Ch 12.

Merton, RK., and Kendall, P (1946). The focused interview. American journal of Sociology 51 (6): 541-557

5) Data collection 2: observation and shadowing

Jerolmack, C. and Khan, S. (2014) Talk Is Cheap: Ethnography and the Attitudinal Fallacy, Sociological Methods Research 43(2): 178-209

Czarniawska, B. (2007). Shadowing: and other techniques for doing fieldwork in modern societies. Copenhagen Business School Press, Ch.2.

Goffman, E. (1989). On Fieldwork. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 18: 123-132.

6) Data Analysis: coding and theorizing

Miles, M, Huberman, M., and Saldaña, J. (2013) Qualitative data analysis: A methods sourcebook. Sage, 2013. Ch. 4

Emerson, R., Fretz, R. and Shaw, L. (2011) Writing ethnographic fieldnotes. University of Chicago Press, 2011.- Ch. 6

Kvale, S. (1996) Interviews: An introduction to qualitative research interviewing, Sage, Ch.11.

7) Data visualization & Theorizing

Miles, M, Huberman, M., and Saldaña, J. (2013) Qualitative data analysis: A methods sourcebook. Sage, 2013. Ch. 5

8) Research quality & From research to practical advice

Karen Golden-Biddle and Karen Locke (2007). “Chapter 1: The Style and Practice of Our Academic Writing” (pp. 9-24) and “Chapter 3: Developing the Theorized Storyline” (pp. 47-60) in Composing Qualitative Research. London: Sage.

Kristin G. Esterberg (2002). “Making Sense of Data” (pp. 151-180) in Qualitative Methods in Social Research. McGraw-Hill.

Eriksson, P. and Kovalainen A. (2008) ”Qualitative research evaluation” and “Closing up” (pp. 290-301) in Qualitative Methods in Business Research. London: Sage.

Alan Bryman and Emma Bell (2003). “The Nature of Qualitative Research” (pp. 286-301) in Business Research Methods. Oxford University Press.
Last updated on 14-08-2015