This seminar 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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