Course ID: | MGMT 9500. 3 hours. |
Course Title: | Strategic Management II |
Course Description: | Major research issues in the field of strategic management,
including I/O Economics, the resource-based view, executive
compensation, networks, and corporate governance, among
others. Attention will also be given to issues affecting the
conduct and publication of research, such as research design,
measurement and validity, and the peer review process. |
Oasis Title: | STRAT MGMT II |
Prerequisite: | Permission of department |
Semester Course Offered: | Offered every year. |
Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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Course Objectives: | Overview & Objectives:
This course is designed to acquaint doctoral students with the scholarly
literature on strategic management. Specifically, we will examine the major
theoretical foundations of and key-contributing authors to the field and their
influence on the discourse as it stands today. |
Topical Outline: | • Publishing in Strategy
• What is strategy?
• Validity and research methodologies in organizational research
• Networks and strategy
• I/O Economics
• Resource-based view of the firm
• Upper Echelons
• Resource Dependence
• Neo-Institutional Theory
• Sociocognitive view of strategy
• Executive compensation
• Reputation, status, and celebrity
• Sociopolitical approaches to corporate governance |
Honor Code Reference: | All students are responsible for maintaining the highest standards of
honesty and integrity in every phase of their academic careers. The
penalties for academic dishonesty are severe and ignorance is not an
acceptable defense.
Academic honesty means performing all academic work without plagiarizing,
cheating, lying, tampering, stealing, receiving assistance from any other
person or using any source of information that is not common knowledge. |