| Course ID: | MIST 9710. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit. |
| Course Title: | Organizational Level Theories in Information Systems |
Course
Description: | An overview of organizational theories with specific emphasis on
information systems. |
| Oasis Title: | ORG LEVEL THEORIES |
| Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in MGMT 9710 |
| Prerequisite: | MIST 9700 |
Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | The course will:
1. Familiarize students with various organizational theories
2. Provide students with a foundation of conceptual bases to
potentially apply in own research
3. Identify gaps and potential unanswered research questions
for future research
4. Identify the main research methods/instruments used to
investigate organizational level phenomena
5. Provide students with the ability to perform a critical
analysis of papers using organizational level theories |
| Topical Outline: | Resource Dependence Theory
Institutional Theory
Structuration Theory
Adaptive Structuration Theory
Organizational Information Processing Theory
Organizational Culture
Organizational Power, Control and Conflict
Agency Theory
Transaction Cost Economics
Organizational Learning
Models of Organizational Change
Social Capital Theory
Paradoxes and Dualities in Organization Theory |