Master of Science in Strategy and international management (Doctoral Programme)

Code TSMDP-Y1-01-1

ECTS 2.50

Delivery mode On campus

Lecture Hours 15.00

Teaching Language English

Pedagogical objectives

Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:

1. Question what is distinctive about “science”
2. Identify the different types of management research
3. Distinguish the different philosophical assumptions in management research
4. Discover the different steps of any research process
5. Clarify the sources of low replicability
6. Implement exact and conceptual replications
7. Implement reproducibility by adopting open science methods

Code TSMDP-Y1-01-2

ECTS 2.50

Delivery mode On campus

Lecture Hours 15.00

Teaching Language English

Pedagogical objectives

Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:

1. Characterize the strength and limitations of different models
2. Describe some of the challenges of studying management theories
3. Understand the basic toolkit of non-cooperative game theory and the scope for applications.
4. Identify the main results of agency theory and its applications to organizational design, governance and related issues
5. Survey the scope and stakes of Behavioral Decision Theory for management research
6. Familiarize with major aspects of Social Psychology such as social influence and motivated reasoning

Prerequisite

Library databases; Science definition and the scientific method; Required pre-readings.

 

Code TSMDP-Y1-01-3

ECTS 2.50

Delivery mode On campus

Lecture Hours 15.00

Teaching Language English

Pedagogical objectives

Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:

1. Review and synthetize fundamental themes in a field of research
2. Characterize what makes a good literature review
3. Describe and point out some of the problems with academic literature
4. Critically reflect on your own approach to reading papers and to searching academic literatures
5. Be aware of the different types of reviews and their respective strengths and weaknesses
6. Are able to make informed decisions (regarding approach, scope, structure, etc.) when planning a literature review
7. Translate academic insights into everyday language

Code TSMDP-Y1-01-4

ECTS 2.50

Delivery mode On campus

Lecture Hours 15.00

Teaching Language English

Pedagogical objectives

Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:

1. Recognize main qualitative methods and comprehend major challenges of data collection and analysis
2. Explain the difference between qualitative and quantitative research 
3. Review qualitative research papers
4. Explain what topics are pertinent to study with a qualitative research approach
5. Distinguish how to interpret findings from a qualitative research and how to assess their validity
6. Collect and use qualitative data for exploratory studies

Code TSMDP-Y1-01-5

ECTS 2.50

Delivery mode On campus

Lecture Hours 15.00

Teaching Language English

Pedagogical objectives

Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:

1. Select the appropriate explanatory method in accordance with the research problem and the available data
2. Determine the quality of used multi-item measurement instruments in quantitative research
3. Test a multiple linear regression, to assess whether the results can be trusted, and to analyze them
4. Test a binary logistic regression and analyze the results
5. Develop a mediation and moderation analyses thanks to a regression approach
6. Implement the Johnson-Neyman technique and the floodlight analysis

Code TSMDP-Y1-01-6

ECTS 2.50

Delivery mode On campus

Lecture Hours 15.00

Teaching Language English

Pedagogical objectives

Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:

1. Explain the interest of experimental methods for research in management and business 
2. Survey experimental research papers 
3. Design an experiment

Code TSMDP-Y1-02-STRAT1

ECTS 2.50

Delivery mode On campus

Lecture Hours 15.00

Teaching Language English

Pedagogical objectives

Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:

1. Recognize the fundamentals of research practice
2. Identify and manipulate the different steps of the research process (i.e. literature review, research question formulation and research design)
3. Compare different research designs based on qualitative and quantitative approaches
4. Sketch a research question

Prerequisite

Course “Introduction to Research“ at the Master 1 level.

 

Code TSMDP-Y1-02-STRAT2

ECTS 5.00

Delivery mode On campus

Lecture Hours 33.00

Teaching Language English

Pedagogical objectives

Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:

1. Compare different options for designing a research project and process in the field of strategic management research
2. Identify different qualitative and quantitative methods and evaluate their suitability for studying a specific research question
3. Distinguish different data collection techniques relevant to the field of strategy research
4. Experiment how to analyze interview, observation and social network data

Prerequisite

Introductory course on “Research process & design”, “Qualitative research” and “Quantitative research”.

Code TSMDP-Y1-02-STRAT3

ECTS 7.50

Delivery mode On campus

Lecture Hours 42.00

Teaching Language English

Pedagogical objectives

Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:

1. Identify major theoretical foundations of the thematic fields addressed
2. Articulate conceptual foundations relevant to address a research questions
3. Discover and examine research gaps in the different fields
4. Distinguish possible relevant methodologies within the thematic fields addressed

Prerequisite

1rst year of master in strategic management or related disciplines.

Code TSMDP-Y1-03-STRAT1

ECTS 5.00

Delivery mode On campus

Lecture Hours 30.00

Teaching Language English

Code TSMDP-Y1-03-STRAT2

ECTS 5.00

Delivery mode On campus

Lecture Hours 30.00

Teaching Language English

Code TSMDP-Y1-03-STRAT3

ECTS 5.00

Delivery mode On campus

Lecture Hours 30.00

Teaching Language English