433092 VO Current Issues in Organization Studies: Open Organizations & Organizing Openness
summer semester 2017 | Last update: 04.06.2019 | Place course on memo listStudents shall be able to identify and evaluate different phenomena of organizational openness. They shall be able to clarify the relation of "openness" to related theoretical concepts. Furthermore, the students shall understand how "organizing openness" is embedded in philosophical understandings of "open society" more broadly.
Philosophical foundations of openness as an organizing principle. Different phenomena of openness including open innovation, open strategy, open government. Theoretical understanding of phenomena related to organizational openness such as organizational participation, inclusion, transparency, socio-materiality and democracy.
Instructions, lectures, plenary and group discussions, reading assignments, student presentations.
Written exam (max. 90 mins.)
- Chesbrough, H. W. (2006). Open Innovation: A New Paradigm for Understanding Industrial Innovation. In H. W. Chesbrough, W. Vanhaverbeke, & J. West (Eds.): Open Innovation: Researching a New Paradigm. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1-12.
- Popper, K. R. (1947). The Open Society and Its Enemies, Volume 2: The High Tide of Prophercy: Hegel, Marx, and the Aftermath. Routledge.
- Whittington, R., Cailluet, L., & Yakis-Douglas, B. (2011). Opening Strategy: Evolution of a Precarious Profession. British Journal of Management, 22(3), 531-544.
Further Literature will be provided in the Lecture.
Successful completion of module Approaches to Organization Studies. 2nd Semester. This module is offered to 30 students. Students of other master programmes can choose this module as a free elective. Online registration is obligatory.
- Innsbruck University School of Management
- Master's Programme Accounting, Auditing and Taxation according to the Curriculum 2007 (120 ECTS-Credits, 4 semesters)
- Master's Programme Business Education according to the curriculum 2010 (150 ECTS-Credits, 5 semesters)
- Master's Programme Information Systems according to the Curriculum 2008 (120 ECTS-Credits, 4 semesters)
- Master's Programme Banking and Finance according to the Curriculum 2007 (120 ECTS-Credits, 4 semesters)
- Master's Programme Organization Studies according to the Curriculum 2007 (120 ECTS-Credits, 4 semesters)
- Master's Programme Strategic Management according to the Curriculum 2007 (120 ECTS-Credits, 4 semesters)
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Tue 2017-04-04
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15.00 - 17.45 | SR 8 (Sowi) SR 8 (Sowi) | Barrier-free | |
Tue 2017-04-25
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15.00 - 17.45 | SR 8 (Sowi) SR 8 (Sowi) | Barrier-free | |
Wed 2017-04-26
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09.00 - 11.45 | HS 3 (Sowi) HS 3 (Sowi) | Barrier-free | |
Wed 2017-04-26
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15.00 - 17.45 | SR 2 (Sowi) SR 2 (Sowi) | Barrier-free | |
Tue 2017-05-02
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09.00 - 12.00 | SR 8 (Sowi) SR 8 (Sowi) | Barrier-free | |
Tue 2017-05-02
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15.00 - 18.00 | SR 8 (Sowi) SR 8 (Sowi) | Barrier-free | |
Wed 2017-05-03
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15.00 - 17.45 | SR 2 (Sowi) SR 2 (Sowi) | Barrier-free | |
Mon 2017-06-19
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14.00 - 15.45 | SR 8 (Sowi) SR 8 (Sowi) | Barrier-free | Klausur |