• Describe different research approaches and philosophies of science.
• Select and apply concepts, theories and other analytical tools of the course to research situations.
• Design appropriate data collection plans to address particular research issues.
• Explain and justify data collection plans to address particular research issues.
• Formulate a clear and well-structured argumentation for the research design.

The Interdisciplinary Research Methods (IRM) course builds on what BLC students have learned and implemented in, both, methods and methodology, during courses and projects of the previous semesters. The course invites students to reflect on the nature of their participation in social science research and provides them with the foundational methodological knowledge they need to write their third-year project. The course is organized around lectures, group discussions and individual study (blended learning). The course focuses on interdisciplinary problem-oriented knowledge production in project work.

The practical, reflective, and reflexive tasks of contemporary Business School researchers as individuals aware of their own cognitional processes will be developed. Building upon this self-appropriation, the methods and methodology lectures will introduce and/or refine interview methods and skills, present methods for analyzing qualitative data and provide a brush up in quantitative data. Students will be introduced to approaches and techniques that can be used to enhance research validity and reliability. Key aspects of the philosophy of science will be covered insofar as these result in more proficient, reflective, and reflexively aware organizational researchers.

To be announced on Canvas