Seminar in Strategic Management: Core Strategy Research & Implications

Course Number: 47990

Strategic management research is a domain of social science research that is concerned with explaining and predicting differences in organizational performance. Strategic management is an interdisciplinary field, and hence any introductory course faces the trade-off between breadth and depth. My choice has been to cover a mix of seminal papers that are most foundational to the field as well as recent studies that have applied and extended the ideas and methodologies of those seminal papers. In addition, I will lecture in some sessions on topics such as teaching core concepts of strategic management in a business school and collecting and analyzing data for academic research.

Degree: PhD
Concentration: Organizational Behavior and Theory
Academic Year: 2023-2024
Semester(s): Mini 3
Required/Elective: Elective
Units: 6

Format

Lecture: 100min/wk and Recitation: 50min/wk

Learning Objectives

By the end of the course, I expect students to have developed a good understanding of the topics that are of core interest to strategy scholars, along with an understanding of their theoretical foundations. I also hope students to have acquired a better ability to read, critically evaluate, and expand upon existing research as they develop their own research projects.