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| Detailed information |
| Original study plan |
Master's programme Joint Master Digital Business Management 2014W |
| Objectives |
- To make students familiar with today’s business world, which is becoming more and more global and also virtual.
- To provide students with a learning environment that allows for experiencing the benefits and challenges of multicultural and virtual team work, and to give them a chance to reflect on these experiences intensively.
- To enable students to acquire a holistic picture of activities of an internationally operating company by participating in an online business game over different time zones.
- To give students the opportunity to acquire skills required for virtual collaboration, by participating in a global virtual team prokect with ohter universities worldwide.
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| Subject |
- Virtual collaboration
- Virtual shift work
- Knowledge transfer over geographical and temporal borders
- Multicultural virtual teams
- Factors influencing virtual global teams
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| Criteria for evaluation |
Individual reflexion after each simulation round
Group reflexion and startegy
Group paper
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| Methods |
Global online business simulation
Intensive reflexion on different levels
Discussion
Group-work
Introductory videos
Blended Learning
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| Language |
English |
| Study material |
- Fischlmayr, I.C. (2011) “Can you hear me?” Technology, computer-mediated communication and other challenges in virtual team collaboration. IfM-Impulse. Hallwang/Salzburg: IfM – Institut für Management. 22-37.
- Cramton, C. D. (2002) Finding Common Ground in Dispersed Collaboration. Organizational Dynamics. 30(4), 356-367.
- Köhler, T.; Fischlmayr, I.; Saarinen E. & Lainema, T. (2013) Bringing the world into our classrooms – The benefits of engaging students in an international business simulation. In: Wankel, Ch. & Blessinger, P. (ed.) Cutting-edge Technologies in Higher Education series. Vol. 5: Increasing Student Engagement and Retention using Classroom Technologies: Classroom Response Systems and Mediated Discourse Technologies. pp. 163-198. Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing Group.
- Proserpio, L. & Gioia, D.A. (2007) Teaching the Virtual Generation. Academy of Management Learning and Education. 6(1), 69-90.
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| Changing subject? |
No |
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