GRADUATE SCHOOL
Ph.D. In Business Administration
BA 601 | Course Introduction and Application Information
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Theory in Management and Organization
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Code
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Semester
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Theory
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Application/Lab
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Local Credits
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ECTS
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BA 601
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Fall/Spring
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3
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0
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3
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7.5
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| Prerequisites |
None
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| Course Language |
English
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| Course Type |
Elective
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| Course Level |
Third Cycle
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| Mode of Delivery | Online | |||||
| Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course | DiscussionGroup WorkProblem SolvingCase StudyQ&ACritical feedbackLecture / Presentation | |||||
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| Course Objectives | This course aims at equipping students with advanced knowledge of theoretical and methodological debates in the field of organization theory. Moreover, it provides students with the skills and capabilities to explain organizational issues within their national and global contexts. |
| Learning Outcomes |
The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Description | This course overviews the major organizational perspectives together with their philosophical foundations, historical evolutions, and core arguments. It mainly includes structural contingency, resource dependence, organizational economics, organizational ecology, new institutionalism, historical institutionalism, network, and complexity theories, and interpretive, critical and postmodern organizational studies. The course also provides a comparative institutional perspective by which course participants are able to evaluate societal and historical dependencies of different organizational theories. |
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Core Courses | |
| Major Area Courses |
X
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| Transferable Skill Courses |
WEEKLY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PREPARATION STUDIES
| Week | Subjects | Related Preparation |
| 1 | Introduction to the course | |
| 2 | Perspectives in Organization studies | Astley, W. G., and Van de Ven, A. H. 1983. Central Perspectives and debates in organization theory. Administrative Science Quarterly, 28: 245-273. Barley, S.R., and Kunda, G. 1992. Design and devotion: Surges in rational and normative ideologies of control in managerial discourse. Administrative Science Quarterly, 37: 363-399. Fligstein, Neil. 2021. Organizations: Theoretical Debates and the Scope of Organizational Theory in S. Abrutyn, O. Lizardo (Eds.), Handbook of Classical Sociological Theory, Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research. Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 487-506. Davis, G. F. 2017. Organization theory and the dilemmas of a post-corporate economy. Research in the Sociology of Organizations 48B: 311-322. |
| 3 | History and geography of organization studies | Shenhav, Yehouda. 2003. The Historical and Epistemological Foundations of Organization Theory: Fusing sociological theory with engineering discourse. in Tsoukas, Haridimos, George D. Mavros and Christian Knudsen (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Organization Theory Oxford University Press. Baum, J. A. C. 2011. European and North American approaches to organizations and strategy research: An Atlantic divide? Not, Organization Science, 22(6): 1663-1679. Üsdiken, B. 2014. Centres and Peripheries: Research Styles and Publication Patterns in ‘Top’ US Journals and their European Alternatives, 1960–2010. Journal of Management Studies, 51:5, 764-789. Üsdiken, B., and Leblebici, H. 2002. Organization theory. N. Anderson et al. (eds) Handbook of industrial, work and organizational psyschology, Newbury Park: Sage, 377-397. |
| 4 | Structural contingency theory | Donaldson, L. 1999. The normal science of structural contingency theory. S. Clegg and C. Hardy (eds) Studying Organization: Theory and Method, London: Sage, 51-70. Schoonhoven, C. B. 1981. Problems with contingency theory: Testing assumptions hidden within the language of contingency theory. Administrative Science Quarterly. 26: 349-377. Amburgey, T. L.,and Dacin, M. T. 1994. As the left foot follows the right? The dynamics of strategic and structural change. Academy of Management Journal. 37 (6) 1427-1452. Sine, W.D., Mitsuhashi, H., and Kirsch, D.A. 2006. Revisiting Burns and Stalker: Formal structure and new venture performance in emerging economic sectors. Academy of Management Journal, 49: 121-132. |
| 5 | Resource dependence theory | Pfeffer, J., and Salancik, S. R. 2003. The external control of organizations. Harper and Row, Chp. 1-3. Hillman, A. J., Withers, M., and Collins, B. J. 2009. Resource dependence theory: a review. Journal of Management. DOI: 10.1177/0149206309343469. Lee, H., Chung, C. C., and Beamish, P. W. 2019. Configurational characteristics of mandate portfolios and their impact on foreign subsidiary survival. Journal of World Business. 54: 1000999. Zhu, H., and Chung, C-N. 2014. Portfolios of political ties and business group strategy in emerging economies: Evidence from Taiwan. Administrative Science Quarterly, 59 (4) 599-638. |
| 6 | Organizational economics | Barney, J., and Hesterly, W. 1999. Organizational economics: Understanding the relationship between organizations and economic analysis. S. Clegg, and C. Hardy, (eds) Studying Organizations: Theory & Method, Second Edition. London: Sage,109-141. Eisenhardt, K. M. 1989. Agency theory: An assessment and review. Academy of Management Review. 14: 57-74. Ray, Gautam, Xue, Ling, and Barney, Jay B. 2013. Impact of information technology capital on firm scope and performance: the role of asset characteristics. Academy of Management Journal. 56 (4) 1125-1147. Zhou, K. Z., Gao, G. Y., and Zhao, H. 2017. State ownership and firm innovation in China: An integrated view of institutional and efficiency logics. Administrative Science Quarterly, 62(2) 375–404. |
| 7 | Organizational ecology | Hannan, M., and Freeman, J. 1977. The population ecology of organizations. American Journal of Sociology, 82: 929-964. Baum, Joel A. C., and Amburgey, Terry L. 2002. Organizational ecology. Joel A. C. Baum (Der) The Blackwell Companion to Organizations. Oxford: Blackwell, 304-326. Haveman, Heather A., Habinek, Jacob and Leo A. Goodman. 2012. How Entrepreneurship Evolves: The Founders of New Magazines in America, 1741–1860. Administrative Science Quarterly 57 (4)585–624. Pozner, J-E., DeSoucey, M., Verhaal, J. C., and Sikavica, K. 2022. Watered Down: Market Growth, Authenticity, and Evaluation in Craft Beer. Organization Studies 43(3) 321–345. |
| 8 | New institutionalism: Diffusion, Legitimacy and Institutionalization | DiMaggio, P. J., and Powell, W. W. 1983. Iron cage revisited: Institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields. American Sociological Review, 48: 147-160. Naumovska, I., and Greve, H.R. 2021. The diffusion of differences: A review and reorientation of 20 years of diffusion research. Academy of Management Annals, 15(2) 377-405. Waeraas, A., and Sataoen, H. L. 2014. Trapped in conformity? Translating reputation management into practice. Scandinavian Journal of Management, 30: 242-253. Beck, N., Kabst, R., and Walgenbach, P. 2009. The cultural dependence of vocational training. Journal of International Business Studies, 40: 1374-1395. |
| 9 | New institutionalism: Institutional Change, Logics, Work, and Complexity | Thornton, P. H., Ocasio, W., and Lounsbury, M. 2012. The Institutional Logics Perspective: A New Approach to Culture, Structure and Process. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (pp.1-49). Lawrence, Thomas B., Leca, Bernard and Zilber, Tammar B. 2013 Institutional Work: Current Research, New Directions and Overlooked Issues. Organization Studies 34: 1023-1033. Greenwood, Royston, Raynard, Mia, Kodeih, Farah, Micelotta, Evelyn R. & Lounsbury, Michael (2011) Institutional Complexity and Organizational Responses, The Academy of Management Annals, 5:1, 317-371. Kroezen J. and Heugens P.P.M.A.R. (2019) What is dead may never die: Institutional regeneration through logic reemergence in Dutch beer brewing. Administrative Science Quarterly, 64(4): 976-1019. Yan, S., Ferraro, F., & Almandoz, J. 2019. The rise of socially responsible investment funds: The paradoxical role of the financial logic. Administrative Science Quarterly, 64(2), 466–501. |
| 10 | Comparative institutionalism | Whitley, R. 2000. Divergent capitalisms: The social structuring and change of business systems. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 31-64. Hotho, J., and Saka-Helmhout, A. 2017. In and between societies: Reconnecting comparative institutionalism and organization theory. Organization Studies, 38(5) 647-666. Özen, Şükrü, and Akkemik, K. Ali. 2012. Does Illegitimate Corporate Behavior Follow the Forms of Polity? The Turkish Experience, Journal of Management Studies 49 (3) 515-537. Fainshmidt, S., Judge, W. O., Aguilera, R. V., and Smith, A. 2018. Varieties of institutional systems: A contextual taxonomy of understudied countries. Journal of World Business, 53: 307-322. |
| 11 | Interpretativist studies | Hatch, M.J. & Yanow, D. 2003. Organization theory as an interpretive science. In H. Tsoukas & C. Knudsen (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Organization Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Sandberg, J., and Tsoukas, H. 2020. Sensemaking reconsidered: Towards a broader understanding through phenomenology. Organization Theory, 1: 1-34. Christianson, M. K. 2019. More or less effective updating: the role of trajectory management in making sense again. Administrative Science Quarterly, 64(1) 45-86. Balogun, Julia, and Gerry Johnson. 2004. Organizational Restructuring and Middle Manager Sensemaking. The Academy of Management Journal 47 (4): 523–49. |
| 12 | Critical and postmodern studies | Alvesson, M. and Deetz, S. 1999. Critical theory and postmodernism approaches to organizational studies. S. Clegg, and C. Hardy (der.) Studying Organization: Teory & Method, Second Edition. London: Sage, 185-212. Wickert, Christopher, and Schaefer, Stephan M. 2015. Towards a progressive understanding of performativity in critical management studies. Human Relations published online 24 February 2014, DOI: 10.1177/0018726713519279 Parker, Martin. 2014. University, Ltd: Changing a business school. Organization. 21 (2) 281-292. Belfrage, C., and Hauf, F. 2017. The gentle art of retroduction: Critical realism, cultural political economy and critical grounded theory. Organization Studies, 38(2) 251-271. |
| 13 | Embeddedness and Network studies | Granovetter, M. 1985. Economic action and social structure: The problem of embeddedness. American Journal of Sociology. 91: 481-510. Gulati, Ranjay, Dialdin, Dania A., and Wang Lihua. 2002. Organizational networks. Joel A. C. Baum (Der) The Blackwell Companion to Organizations. 281-303. Oxford: Blackwell. Iorio, A. 2022. Brokers in disguise: The joint effect of actual brokerage and socially perceived brokerage on network advantage. Administrative Science Quarterly, 67(3) 769-820. Cattani, G., and Ferriani, S. 2008. A core/periphery perspective on individual creative performance: Social networks and cinematic achievements in the Hollywood film industry. Organization Science 19 (6):824–44. |
| 14 | Turkish Business Context and Management and Organization Studies | Üsdiken, B. 1996. Importing theories of management and organization: The case of Turkish academia. International Studies of Management and Organization, 26 (3) 33-46. Üsdiken, B. 2003. Plurality in institutional environments and educational content: The undergraduate business degree in Turkey. R. P. Amdam, R. Kvalshaugen, E. Larsen (Eds.) Inside the business schools: The content of European business education, 87-109. Abstrakt, Liber: Copenhagen Business School Press. Üsdiken, B., and Wasti, S.A. 2009. Preaching, Teaching and Researching at the Periphery: Academic Management Literature in Turkey, 1970-1999. Organization Studies. 30 (10): 1063-1082. Colpan, A. M. 2010. Business Groups in Turkey. In A. Colpan, T. Hikino, J. R. Lincoln (eds). The Oxford Handbook of Business Groups, pp. 486-525, Oxford University Press: Oxford. |
| 15 | Review of the Semester | |
| 16 | Final Exam |
| Course Notes/Textbooks | All required course readings are listed in the “related preparation” part of the course outline. |
| Suggested Readings/Materials | Baum, Joel A. C. (Ed.) The Blackwell Companion to Organizations. Oxford: Blackwell. Burrell, G. and G. Morgan. 1979. Sociological paradigms and organizational analysis. London: Heinemann. Hatch, M. J. 1997. Organization theory: Modern, symbolic and postmodern perspectives. New York: Oxford University Pres. Haridimos Tsoukas and Christian Knudsen (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Organization Theory: Meta-Theoretical Perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Sargut, A. Selami, and Özen, Şükrü. (Eds.). 2015. Örgüt Kuramları. (2015 3. Ed) Ankara: İmge. Scott, W.R. 2003. Organizations: Rational, natural and open systems. 5. edition. Pearson Education. |
EVALUATION SYSTEM
| Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
| Participation | ||
| Laboratory / Application | ||
| Field Work | ||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | ||
| Portfolio | ||
| Homework / Assignments |
1
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20
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| Presentation / Jury |
5
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20
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| Project |
1
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20
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| Seminar / Workshop |
1
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10
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| Oral Exams | ||
| Midterm | ||
| Final Exam |
1
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30
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| Total |
| Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade |
8
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70
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| Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade |
1
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30
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| Total |
ECTS / WORKLOAD TABLE
| Semester Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
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| Theoretical Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) |
16
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3
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48
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| Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: '.16.' x total hours) |
16
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0
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| Study Hours Out of Class |
14
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4
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56
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| Field Work |
0
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| Quizzes / Studio Critiques |
0
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| Portfolio |
0
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| Homework / Assignments |
5
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4
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20
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| Presentation / Jury |
5
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5
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25
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| Project |
1
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20
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20
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| Seminar / Workshop |
1
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13
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13
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| Oral Exam |
0
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| Midterms |
0
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| Final Exam |
1
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30
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30
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| Total |
212
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COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS RELATIONSHIP
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Program Competencies/Outcomes |
* Contribution Level
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5
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| 1 | To be able to master existing theoretical knowledge in their specialized area of business administration. |
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| 2 | To be able to gain in-depth knowledge of research methodologies and design. |
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| 3 | To be able to acquire advanced knowledge of data collection and analysis techniques. |
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| 4 | To be able to design and conduct original research with a scholarly theoretical emphasis. |
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| 5 | To be able to disseminate scholarly knowledge in well-known academic networks. |
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| 6 | To be able to demonstrate the ability to communicate the results of their research in a clear and effective manner with various audiences. |
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| 7 | To be able to have concerns for the high ethical standards in research, and teaching. |
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| 8 | To be able to adopt critical attitude toward the extant literature and practice in the specialized area of business administration. |
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