BUS ADM 700 – Business in Context: Markets, Technologies and Societies
Complex business dilemmas span the various disciplines. This course covers the range of theoretical approaches and methods that can be mobilized to understand and address these issues.
BUS ADM 750 – Foundations of Organization Theory
This course introduces students to classic readings in organization theory upon which the field is built. The foundational schools of thoughts include scientific management, human/informal relations, behavioral theories of decision making, organizational economics, and old and new institutional theories.
BUS ADM 751 (797) – Contemporary Issues in Organization Theory
This course introduces contemporary and critical approaches to organization theory. The perspectives introduced in this class include contingency theory, sensemaking, critical realist/labor theories, postmodern, poststructuralist, postcolonial, and feminist approaches as well as discussion of recent theoretical insights.
BUS ADM 754 – Organizations and Social Change
This course introduces contemporary studies that examine organizations as a setting through which social change can occur. Theories considered include institutional theory, institutional entrepreneurship, network analyses, and social movements. The course will engage critical and postcolonial appraisals of organization theory and uncover the interests and perspectives that theories represent. Students will not only read finished papers, but will examine work-in-progress and learn the process through which research papers are revised.
BUS ADM 755 – Qualitative Methods
This course introduces a range of perspectives on qualitative research. It focuses on interpretive traditions, working with data, matching research design to theories, and emerging methodological approaches for new theoretical directions.
BUS ADM 760 – Globalization and Political Economy Dimensions of Organization Theory
This course will provide a critical analysis of liberal, neoclassical, and radical perspectives on the role of business in modern society. Alternative theories of economic growth, historical changes in power across nations, the role of the state, the power of regulatory regimes, and the impact of ideology will be consider. Global flows of labor, capital, and products will be traced and critically assessed in terms of productivity, effectiveness, distributive justice, and environmental impacts.
BUS ADM 770 – Introduction to Research Methods for the Social Sciences
This course will train students in selecting appropriate methods for investigating a research question. We will explore a range of approaches to data, including positivist, interpretive, and critical. Students will learn to read research papers through the eyes of reviewers and note where improvements can be made to tighten the flow from theory to research design to conclusions.
BUS ADM 775 – Teaching and Professional Development
As an advanced student of business, skills are needed to effectively and persuasively disseminate knowledge. This course will provide knowledge needed to engage an audience (with specific applications on teaching), giving professional presentations, and being persuasive on policy matters informed by research.