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2025/2026  BA-BBLCO2102U  Business Study Report

English Title
Business Study Report

Course information
Language English
Course ECTS 15 ECTS
Type Mandatory
Level Bachelor
Duration One Semester
Start time of the course Autumn
Timetable Course schedule will be posted at calendar.cbs.dk
Study board
Study Board for Business, Language and Area Studies
Course coordinator
  • Magali Gravier - Department of Management, Society and Communication (MSC)
Main academic disciplines
  • Globalisation and international business
  • Methodology and philosophy of science
  • Language
Teaching methods
  • Face-to-face teaching
Last updated on 15-05-2025

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Learning objectives
At the end of the course students should be able to:
  • Identify a research topic related to a business, a business activity, an organization or an organizational activity in the area of the second language (French, German or Spanish).
  • Reproduce basic theoretical knowledge on qualitative methods;
  • Justify the choice and use of one or several qualitative method(s) for a given research project, including the suitability of this choice given the research question and analytical framework;
  • Collect suitable empirical data following the constraints of a chosen qualitative method in one of the three languages taught in the BLC programme (French, German or Spanish);
  • Analyse the data in order to answer the research question and present it in a research project;
  • Use and critically reflect on the use of AI for the collection and analysis of data.
  • Critically reflect on the method used for the project in order to explain what worked and what didn’t work as expected from the point of view of methods
Examination
Business Study Report:
Exam ECTS 15
Examination form Home assignment - written product
Individual or group exam Individual exam
Size of written product Max. 20 pages
Students will use qualitative data for this project. The data collected must be in the second language chosen by the student (French, German, or Spanish). Students are recommended to work with secondary data, but can choose to work with primary data (interview or participant observation).
Assignment type Project
Release of assignment Subject chosen by students themselves, see guidelines if any
Duration Written product to be submitted on specified date and time.
Grading scale 7-point grading scale
Examiner(s) One internal examiner
Exam period Winter
Make-up exam/re-exam
Same examination form as the ordinary exam
Course content, structure and pedagogical approach

The course aims at giving students practical training in qualitative methods for the purpose of investigating business contexts in their second language (French, German or Spanish).

 

The course will focus on collecting and analysing qualitative, archival data/ documents. The course combines lecturing and a hands-on implementation in the form of a project with supervision. Emphasis will be put on the different methodological steps from the choice of the research question and analytical framework, to the choice of one or several suitable methods of collection of data, the collection of data itself and the analysis of the data collected with the aim to answer the chosen research question.

 

Students will learn how to use critically AI for their assignment.

 

Students can use theories from other courses (such as marketing, sustainability, cultural studies, etc.) 
Research-based teaching
CBS’ programmes and teaching are research-based. The following types of research-based knowledge and research-like activities are included in this course:
Research-based knowledge
  • Teacher’s own research
  • Methodology
  • Models
  • Working with data in your second language (French, German, or Spanish)
Research-like activities
  • Development of research questions
  • Data collection
  • Analysis
  • Discussion, critical reflection, modelling
  • Students conduct independent research-like activities under supervision
Description of the teaching methods
Lectures, supervision hours, personal work on own project.
Feedback during the teaching period
Feed back in class but mostly during supervision hours.
Student workload
Lectures 12 hours
Supervision 6 hours
Preparation 110 hours
Exam preparation 284 hours
In total 412 hours
Further Information

Please note that this course will be discontinued and run for the last time in Autumn 2026. The last exam will be offered in winter 2027.
Expected literature

To be found by students.
Last updated on 15-05-2025