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Management Theory
This course provides an understanding of the foundational concepts and empirical studies in management. It surveys the development of management theories and an analysis of the current trends in management thoughts. It examines how scholars construct theories to explain organizational phenomena. The course will review basic writings, research and theories on management. In the light of the vast body of knowledge, only selected issues of interest in the management field will be explored in depth.
Introduction to Research Methods
This course introduces students to the foundations of research design for management research. It will explore selection of the research question, research design, literature review, and writing and publishing management research. It will introduce selected qualitative methods for data collection and analysis such as ethnography, interviewing, observation, and computer-aided methods of data analysis; and selected quantitative methods for date collection such as experiments, surveys, and secondary data analysis. At the end of the course, the participants should have prepared a draft of their theisis proposal.
Quantitative Research Methods
A large proportion of comtemporary research on organization, strategy, and management relies on quantitative research methods. This course is designed to provide the statistical background and to familiarize the students with some of the commonly used quantitative techniques, including ordinary least squares multivariate regression, models for binary outcomes, count models, and pooled cross-section/time series analysis.
The main objective of this course is to help students understand the relationship between theory, data and statistical methods. This is not a course in statistical theory (i.e. we will not be deriving likelihood functions etc.) but a course on the practical use of statistical techniques to answer management related research questions. We will spend considerale time thinking about theoretical insights that can be translated into testable propositions, and how these propositions are best tested. We will do this through discussions of published papers from leading journals or high quality working papers in management research, and by having you solve statistical problems, work with data and estimate models. At the end of the course, you should be able to use common statistical methods to ask and answer research questions, and have developed critical skills in evaluating others' research, such that you may apply these skills to your own thesis and other research works.
Qualitative Research Methods
This course introduces students to qualitative research methods. Qualitative methods refers to a variety of research techniques that are non-statistical in nature, involve gathering data first hand from "primary sources" (i.e. by observing or interviewing people or organizations), and form a complementary research approach to statistical and other quantitative techniques. Qualitative methods help researchers develop insights into new phenomena, into process, and into complex relationships that are not easily ascertained with other methods.
The course will introduce qualitative methods from four perspecitves. One is by formally studying and practicing the practices of the methods. The second is by studying formative qualitative pieces of research. The third is by understanding the strengths of qualitative research, in studying complex systems with interacting actors or subsystem, and in studying process. The fourth is by examining some of the techniques (as practiced in the real world) in contrast to how they might be practiced (or adapted) to other, specifically virtual, worlds.
Entrepreneurship and Business Creation
This course aims to introduce the students to the concept and value of entrepreneurship in a wider context, the theoretical models and practice of entrepreneurial process and their applicaiton in various organizational contexts. It seeks to develop a critical understanding of key issues in entrepreneurship, including implications of entrepreneurship, paths to entrepreneurship, and environments for entrepreneurship. Participants will nalayze theoretical and practical arguments on entrepreneurial opportunities, strategies and tools for various types of entrepreneurial processes and management. They will compare and contrast different theoretical approaches to entrepreneurship and enterprise developmentin different types of organizations.
International Business
This research seminar supplements MGMT205 "International Business. The principal aim of this seminar is to overview the academic literature and research methods in International Business. The seminar introduces participants to seminal papers and to current trends in International Buisness research. In the process, semiar participants will learn to formulate relevant research questions, design research methods, and review academic papers in the field of International Business.
Corporate Governance
This course introduces the participants to the issues in governance of corporations. It will delve into current theories on the relationship between the various stakeholders, the role of corporate governance mechanisms on corporate behavior and performance, the impact of baordroom on decision-making and strategy among other topics of interest.
Strategy
This course is designed to study strategy and related issues that affect the success of the entire organization. This course introduces the theory and tools of critical and effective strategic analysis, and thinking. This seminar concentrates on current theoretical and empirical research relating to emerging areas of knowledge in the strategic management field. It reflects the emphasis of current research on strategic and organizational phenomena.
Enterprise Growth and Development
Many new ventures experience failure during growing their businesses - Growth creates new challenges that have to be met. This course considers the growth stages of the firm beyond the startup and survival phase. In the growth of the new venture, both the firm and its founder(s) are likely to go through some considerable transitions. We focus on managerial issues during different phases of the new venture's expansion and transitions and offer management tools that are needed to capture value form entrepreneurial activities and to build a new venture into a significant enterprise.
Non-profit Management
The course will focus on those nonprofit management issues across the many different types of organizations that make up the nonprofit sector. Thecourse will examine the scope of and variations within the nonprofit sector, contemporary theories of nonprofit enterprise, such as fundraising and development, financial management, accountability, human resources management, volunteer management, strategic planning, marketing, and governance.
Human Resource Management
With globalization, human, capital and its management is an important aspect of all business. In the realm of management research, there is a need to explore the competing theories, the changing environments and specific context of corporations operating in emerging economies in Asia. This course explores the theories and current research on motivation, rewards, recruitment, retention, organizational learning, and expatriate management.
Family Business
Family businesses are the mainstay of Asian business, if not, much business around the world. Yet management of these businesses are fraught with interesting challenges. The jutaposition of the family, buisness and external stakeholder issues endear family businesses to research. This course will review current research trends and explore avenues for research. Topics covered include family business transition, transformation, leadership development, social responsibility and philanthropy, governance, social capital and human capital.
Social Entrepreneurship
Social entrepreneurship examines the process of creating new independent or corporate ventures that pursue the dual primary missions of social benefit and financial return on investment. Hence, the course concerns itself with nonprofit organisations and for profit ventures that have a social mission and aim to be financially self-sufficient or are profit driven. This course is deisgned as an introduction to the field. It examines the obstacles and constraints faced by social entrepreneurs, and surfacing new strategies for them. The course will draw on practitioners as well as on historical and contemporary moedls to explore the unique range of issues and challenges facing the new social venture. The course invites students to explore solutions to societal problems and to evaluate the market opportunities for social venture creation, the social capital markets and the trade off between social and financial returns, and resource issues. The research seminars will cover the areas of enquiry in nonprofit management and thedifferences between social entrepreneurship and traditional management and innovation.
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