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2024/2025 BA-BDMAO1001U Managing Innovation in Organizations
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| Managing Innovation in Organizations |
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| Language | English |
| Course ECTS | 7.5 ECTS |
| Type | Mandatory (also offered as elective) |
| Level | Bachelor |
| Duration | One Semester |
| Start time of the course | Autumn |
| Timetable | Course schedule will be posted at calendar.cbs.dk |
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BSc in Digital Management
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| Last updated on 25-06-2024 | |
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Number of compulsory
activities which must be approved (see section 13 of the Programme
Regulations): 3
Compulsory home
assignments
In order to take the final exam, students will have to get three mandatory 1,000-word essays approved. An extra attempt will be given before the ordinary exam. |
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The purpose of the course is to introduce students to the foundations of innovation theory, located at the intersection of technology, organization and marketing issues. Building on this foundation, the course will also address the ‘future’ of innovation theory and practice, specifically exploring the role of new technologies in enabling new forms of innovation organizing. In addressing these issues, students are invited to reflect on the ambiguity and uncertainty that necessarily surrounds development and introduction of innovations, and on the ethical dilemmas thus brought about.
Through the course, we will progress from basic understandings of the societal role of innovation via questions of innovation strategy to the micro-level dynamics of how innovation both shapes and is shaped by organizations. The course aims to provide a repertoire of concepts and theoretical understandings allowing the student to conceptualize innovation-related issues and to reflect on these in a theoretically informed manner. Ideas covered are drawn from economic history, organization theory, innovation economics and marketing theory and include:
The course also aims to strengthen the students’ ability to express these ideas in oral and especially written form, and trains the ability to engage with ideas expressed in various scholarly and applied forms. This will be done through dedicated lessons on writing technique and practice, in-class discussion and take-home exercises. An inherent part of this is the ability to both account for and critique theoretical positions and their practical implications. |
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| The course is based primarily on highly
participation-oriented lectures that discuss theoretical ideas that
students are exposed to in the research papers assigned for each
class. It is our baseline assumption in planning these lectures
that students will have read the assigned papers and textbook
chapters prior to class, and that they have completed a one-hour
writing assignment. Moreover, for each class students are asked to
listen to an assigned podcast where a particular company,
technology or problem is presented. We think of this as a case
description and use the case as a basis for theoretical analysis in
class. As such, all class discussions aim to be directed towards
very current debates around organizations, technology and society.
Students will also participate in three writing workshops, spread through the course. The purpose of these workshops is to help students learn to write academically. The course’s three mandatory assignments provide opportunities for students to independently practice these skills, i.e. to engage in theoretical analysis of innovation-related issues and to communicate the results of their analyses in writing. Mandatory assignments are also opportunities to receive feedback from both peers and teachers on students’ developing understanding and craft of research. To the extent possible, we will be including supplemental ‘state of the art’ readings and guest lectures. The supplemental readings will be published or working papers reporting on research undertaken by course teachers themselves. Guest lectures will primarily feature recent DM graduates sharing their bachelor project research as it pertains to the management of innovation in organizations. |
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| Because every class provides extensive
opportunities to engage in discussions, students will have copious
occasions for receiving feedback on their ability to express ideas
verbally. In each class, students will also have an opportunity to
receive peer feedback on written work.
Students will receive feedback on each of their written assignments from peers and several classes will be spent discussing their writing processes, taking assignments as a starting point. |
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