| Das Modul wird in Englisch abgehalten. The module examines organizations as building blocks in modern societies, reviews different theoretical frameworks that have been central to organization science, and applies these frameworks in the explanation of a broad range of organizational phenomena. The course is structured into two stages.Prep Stage: acquiring/relearning required basic knowledge for the course
 Organizations as social systems
 Definitions of organizations
 Interplay between structure and agency
 Organizations as a field of research
 Economic, institutional and evolutionary perspectives 
 Advanced Stage: acquiring advanced knowledge for the course
 Space & spatiality: geographic and social spaces of organizations; theories of economic agglomeration; organizational networks and fields
 Time & temporality: historical approaches to organizations; theory of path dependence; different conceptions of time in organization studies
 Structures & structuring: formal and informal structures; socialization processes; decoupling of structures and practice.
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