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Course syllabus - Business Research in Practice

Scope

15 credits

Course code

FOA320

Valid from

Autumn semester 2015

Education level

Second cycle

Progressive Specialisation

A1N (Second cycle, has only first-cycle course/s as entry requirements).

Main area(s)

Business Administration

School

School of Business, Society and Engineering

Ratified

2015-02-04

Literature lists

Course literature is preliminary up to 8 weeks before course start. Course literature can be valid over several semesters.

    • Ratified date: 2017-12-22
    • Latest update: 2017-12-22

    Books

    Bjereld, Ulf; Demker, Marie; Hinnfors, Jonas

    Varför vetenskap? : om vikten av problem och teori i forskningsprocessen

    3., [omarb.] uppl. : Lund : Studentlitteratur, 2009 - 165 s.

    ISBN: 9789144054759 LIBRIS-ID: 11303846

    Gustavsson, B

    Vad är kunskap? En diskussion om praktisk och teoretisk kunskap

    Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation, 2004

    URL: Länk

    Engwall, Lars

    Företagsekonomins rötter : några bidrag till en företagsekonomisk doktrinhistoria

    Lund : Studentlitt., 1980 - 115 s.

    ISBN: 91-44-42861-8 LIBRIS-ID: 7278792

    Simon, Herbert A.

    Administrative behavior : a study of decision-making processes in administrative organisations

    4., [rev.] ed. : New York : Free Press, 1997 - xv, 368 s.

    ISBN: 0-684-83582-7 LIBRIS-ID: 8294198

    Foucault, Michel; Bjurström, C. G.; Torhell, Sven-Erik

    Vetandets arkeologi

    2., ombrutna, översedda uppl. : Lund : Arkiv, 2011 - 260 s.

    ISBN: 978-91-7924-227-5 LIBRIS-ID: 12400622

    Kuhn, Thomas S.; Hacking, Ian

    The structure of scientific revolutions

    4. ed. ; 50th anniversary ed. : Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2012 - xlvi, 217 s.

    ISBN: 9780226458120 LIBRIS-ID: 13429258

    Burrell, Gibson; Morgan, Gareth

    Sociological paradigms and organisational analysis : elements of the sociology of corporate life

    [New ed.] : Aldershot : Gower, 1985 - 432 s.

    ISBN: 0-566-05148-6 LIBRIS-ID: 5049822

    URL: Bibliotekts e-bok/Library e-book

    Berger, Peter L.; Luckmann, Thomas

    The social construction of reality : a treatise in the sociology of knowledge

    1. ed. : Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1966 - 203 s.

    LIBRIS-ID: 416370

    Lakoff, George; Johnson, Mark

    Metaphors we live by

    Chicago : Univ. of Chicago Press, 1980 - xiii, 242 s.

    ISBN: 0-226-46800-3 LIBRIS-ID: 4718211

    Weick, Karl E.

    Sensemaking in organizations

    Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage, cop. 1995 - xii, 231 s.

    ISBN: 0-8039-7176-1 LIBRIS-ID: 5691818

    Latour, Bruno

    Reassembling the social : an introduction to actor-network-theory

    Oxford : University Press, 2005 - viii, 301 s.

    ISBN: 0-19-925604-7 LIBRIS-ID: 9940991

    Schumpeter, Joseph Alois

    The theory of economic development : an inquiry into profits, capital, credit, interest, and the business cycle

    New York : Oxford U.P., 1961 - 255 s.

    LIBRIS-ID: 10288959

    Pfeffer, Jeffrey; Salancik, Gerald R.

    The external control of organizations : a resource dependence perspective

    New York : Harper & Row, cop. 1978 - 300 s.

    ISBN: 0-06-045193-9 LIBRIS-ID: 4489295

    Penrose, Edith Tilton

    The theory of the growth of the firm

    3. ed. : Oxford : Oxford Univ. Press, 1995 - xxiii, 272 s.

    ISBN: 0-19-828978-2 LIBRIS-ID: 4627377

    Ricœur, Paul; Thompson, John B.

    Hermeneutics and the human sciences : essays on language, action, and interpretation

    Cambridge philosophy classics edition : New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016 - xlix, 267 pages

    ISBN: 978-1-107-14497-2 LIBRIS-ID: 19965494

    Articles

    Birkinshaw, J., Brannen, M. Y., & Tung, R. L

    From a distance and generalizable to up close and grounded: Reclaiming a place for qualitative methods in international business research

    Journal of International Business Studies, 2011

    Chang, S. J., Van Witteloostuijn, A., & Eden, L.

    From the editors: Common method variance in international business research.

    Journal of International Business Studies, 2010

    Cronbach, L. J.; Meehl, P. E

    Construct validity in psychological tests

    Psychological bulletin, 1955

    Flyvbjerg, B

    Five Misunderstandings About Case-Study Research

    Qualitative Inquiry, 2006

    Yilmaz, K

    Comparison of Quantitative and Qualitative Research Traditions: epistemological, theoretical, and methodological differences.

    European Journal of Education, 2013

    Därutöver tillkommer i anslutning till kursen ytterligare texter, artiklar och material.

    -,

    • Ratified date: 2016-11-21
    • Latest update: 2017-01-12

    Books

    Alvesson, Mats; Deetz, Stanley; Torhell, Sven-Erik

    Kritisk samhällsvetenskaplig metod

    Lund : Studentlitteratur, 2000 - 261 s.

    ISBN: 91-44-01165-2 LIBRIS-ID: 8352833

    Bjereld, Ulf; Demker, Marie; Hinnfors, Jonas

    Varför vetenskap? : om vikten av problem och teori i forskningsprocessen

    3., [omarb.] uppl. : Lund : Studentlitteratur, 2009 - 165 s.

    ISBN: 9789144054759 LIBRIS-ID: 11303846

    Simon, Herbert A.

    Administrative behavior : a study of decision-making processes in administrative organisations

    4., [rev.] ed. : New York : Free Press, 1997 - xv, 368 s.

    ISBN: 0-684-83582-7 LIBRIS-ID: 8294198

    Kuhn, Thomas S.; Hacking, Ian

    The structure of scientific revolutions

    4. ed. ; 50th anniversary ed. : Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2012 - xlvi, 217 s.

    ISBN: 9780226458120 LIBRIS-ID: 13429258

    Yin, Robert K.

    Case study research : design and methods

    2. ed. : Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage, cop. 1994 - xi, 171 s.

    ISBN: 0-8039-5662-2 LIBRIS-ID: 8310116

    Foucault, Michel; Bjurström, C. G.; Torhell, Sven-Erik

    Vetandets arkeologi

    2., ombrutna, översedda uppl. : Lund : Arkiv, 2011 - 260 s.

    ISBN: 978-91-7924-227-5 LIBRIS-ID: 12400622

    Engwall, Lars

    Företagsekonomins rötter : några bidrag till en företagsekonomisk doktrinhistoria

    Lund : Studentlitt., 1980 - 115 s.

    ISBN: 91-44-42861-8 LIBRIS-ID: 7278792

    Articles

    Cronbach, L. J.; Meehl, P. E

    Construct validity in psychological tests

    Psychological bulletin, 1955

    • Ratified date: 2015-12-20
    • Latest update: 2017-01-12

    Books

    Bryman, Alan; Bell, Emma

    Företagsekonomiska forskningsmetoder

    2., [rev.] uppl. : Stockholm : Liber, 2013 - 757 s.

    ISBN: 9789147098224 LIBRIS-ID: 13894330

Grade

Pass with distinction, Pass, Fail