Universität Wien

040034 KU Strategic Innovation (MA) (2020W)

Novel Forms of Organising

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 4 - Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

Since this is a Major course, you need to have completed the Minor first.
Moodle

An/Abmeldung

Hinweis: Ihr Anmeldezeitpunkt innerhalb der Frist hat keine Auswirkungen auf die Platzvergabe (kein "first come, first served").

Details

max. 50 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

  • Dienstag 06.10. 16:45 - 21:30 Hörsaal 4 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Donnerstag 08.10. 16:45 - 21:30 Hörsaal 1 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Dienstag 13.10. 16:45 - 21:30 Digital
    Hörsaal 9 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Mittwoch 14.10. 16:45 - 21:30 Digital
    Hörsaal 6 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Donnerstag 15.10. 16:45 - 20:00 Digital
  • Dienstag 20.10. 16:45 - 20:00 Hörsaal 4 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

Dear students: Please note that this course will use Zoom as video-conferencing tool for its digital sessions. Both for those sessions, which are already planned as digital ones, and in the case that the circumstances surrounding the current pandemic necessitate a fast switch from teaching in the lecture halls to purely online-teaching.
We strive to offer you online-sessions of the same quality as our regular sessions, and while there might be other video-conferencing tools available, Zoom is currently the only widely used one that offers the full range of functionality we need for this course. Zoom will allow us to conduct case-based online-sessions that very closely mirror our regular, highly interactive seminar sessions.
However, Zoom is hosted and stores data outside of the EU, namely on US servers. We are thus not able to guarantee the storage and use of your data in full accordance with the GDPR, and cannot hold Zoom accountable for it either. Therefore we ask that you keep this in mind when registering and participating in this course.
To inform yourself on how Zoom processes and uses personal data, you may want to have a look at the Zoom Privacy Statement here: https://zoom.us/privacy#_Toc44414842
If your concerns about Zoom’s data security prevent you from registering for our courses we are regretful, but understand that you may want to take other courses/pursue a different minor instead.

Wikipedia has outcompeted the Encyclopedia Britannica. Companies such as the Valve or Zappos do away with their traditional structure and successfully compete in fierce markets. Over the past decade, novel forms of organizing (NFOs) have disrupted traditional businesses and continue to challenge managers’ views on the viability of their strategies and the ways of re-structuring their own companies to cater to the demands of the millennial workforce. This class – blending insights from a decade’s research program with rich case-based illustrations – helps you master the following questions: what are novel forms of organizing at all? Why and how do they matter to strategists? Which type of employee wants to work inside an NFO and why? When and why should managers want to design one? What works (well)? Is flatter always better? How should I customize a flat structure to suit my company? What does it take to work team-based? And what really stands behind agility, DAOs, Holacracy, Scrum, WOC?
The goal is for students to develop a research-based understanding of why and how (novel) forms of organizing matter in strategy; understand their competitive implications, their inner workings, and their constraints in meeting corporate goals.

Please note that as of now, some sessions will be held offline, some will be held online. Closer information will follow before the course starts. Should the current situation not allow classroom teaching, the class will be moved online.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

There will be three components to your grade – your class participation, your individual final paper, and your group project.
Class attendance is mandatory (you need to attend the whole first day, if you need to miss part of one of the other sessions, you are allowed to miss up to 20%). Note that while activity in class is necessary to obtain a good grade, it is the quality of your contributions that will eventually determine whether you excel in this course or not. Your final individual paper will be a 24 hour take-home exam to be handed out at the end of the last session and to be returned the day after. Please do block time in advance.
Also, once the classes are over, you will be able to start working on your group project, for which you will have a total of two weeks to complete. More details will be provided during the first session.

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

Your final grade will be determined based on three components:
- Class participation (max 30 points)
- Group project (max 30 points)
- Exam (individual) paper (max 40 points)
You need to achieve a total of at least 50 points in order to pass the class.

Please note that TURNITIN will be used in order to test all written coursework (e.g. seminar papers) for possible plagiarism.

Prüfungsstoff

Lectures, cases, reading materials, class discussions and assignments;
Language: The course is held in English

Literatur

Essential reading: Puranam, P., Alexy, O., & Reitzig, M. (2014). What's “new” about new forms of organizing?. Academy of Management Review, 39(2), 162-180.
Please note this class comprises additional compulsory literature consisting of a number of case studies at a cost of approximately 15 EUR. Information on these will be sent to you before the course starts.
Additional reading – academic and non-academic – will be made available on Moodle

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Letzte Änderung: Fr 12.05.2023 00:12