Course Overview
About Strategising, Digitisation and Networks
Welcome to this course! Here you will find general information about the course, the major class topics, Canvas(Studium (this Learning platform) layout information and how you should navigate through materials, expectations, general tips/tricks, etc.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
The course will make the student:
- Reflect on the roles that digitisation plays in an interconnected business context and the effects on strategy
- Compare and discuss theoretical foundations, assumptions and changes to these foundations in the intersection between networks, digitalisation and strategy
- Practically apply ideas on digitalization, networks and strategies as well as being able to relate it to own research interests
CONTENT
The course consists of five themes:
- Theme I: Interconnectivity, interdependence and networks – a theoretical background
- Theme II: Strategies from a network perspective
- Theme III: Digitalisation in and of relationships
- Theme IV: Future research – where is the new research frontiers
- Theme V: Relating own research to Thema I – IV
INSTRUCTION
Seminars, seminary papers and a final course paper. The seminars involve discussing and applying literature related to each module of the course. The final course paper aims to relate to course material and further reading to the research interest of the PhD candidate. If the doctoral student can present valid reasons for absence, supplementary written assignment will be given linked to the part that the doctoral student missed.
STUDIUM/CANVAS and ZOOM
Studium: All seminars will take place online, unless otherwise announced. The platform used for the course is Studium/Canvas. Instructions are provided in the section called "Modules", see menu to the left. Click Menu to read more about the Themes I-V.
Zoom: The communication platform used is Zoom, which you find in the menu to the left. To access the seminars, click on Zoom and choose the seminar you are going to attend.
Grading Scheme
The student will get one single grade, equivalent to 7.5 credits.
The course is examined through active participation in the mandatory seminars that take place continuously during the course, handing in of seminary papers and through a final course paper. If the doctoral student can present valid reasons for absence, supplementary written assignment will be given linked to the part that the doctoral student missed.