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Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this module, students will have the ability to:
- LO1: Drawing on their systematically gathered data and personal experience as participant observers, students understand the principles underlying the platform economy.
- LO2: Students are capable of analyzing and evaluate platform practices and with a particular focus on identifying and assessing their economic and managerial relevance as well as their societal impact.
- LO3: Students are capable of using participant observation and ethnographic methods to independently conduct a single case study of a digital platform.
- LO4: Students have increased their capacity for observing, acquiring data, experimenting, interpreting, critically evaluating and, as a result, for developing theory.
- LO5: Students are capable of comparing different platforms (i.e. structures, practices, business models etc.), and inferring general principles and questions—thereby moving from a single-case to a multi-case approach.
- LO6: Students can analyze academic literature for its practical implications from a corporate as well as from a societal impact perspective.
- LO7: Students are capable of acquiring scientific knowledge from primary scholarly sources—sum-marizing articles, determining their key messages and critically evaluating them.
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