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Course syllabus - Business Research in Practice

Scope

15.0 credits

Course code

FOA320

Valid from

Autumn semester 2018

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

Revised

2018-01-22

Literature lists

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

    • Ratified date: 2018-12-20
    • Latest update: 2025-05-27

    Books

    Engwall, Lars

    Företagsekonomins rötter: några bidrag till en företagsekonomisk doktrinhistoria

    ISBN: 91-44-42861-8

    LIBRIS-ID: 7278792

    Lund, Studentlitt., 115 s.

    Bjereld, Ulf; Demker, Marie; Hinnfors, Jonas

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

    ISBN: 9789144054759

    LIBRIS-ID: 11303846

    3., [omarb.] uppl., Lund, Studentlitteratur, 165 s.

    Simon, Herbert A.

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

    ISBN: 0-684-83582-7

    LIBRIS-ID: 8294198

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

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

    Vetandets arkeologi

    ISBN: 978-91-7924-227-5

    LIBRIS-ID: 12400622

    2., ombrutna, översedda uppl., Lund, Arkiv, 260 s.

    Burrell, Gibson; Morgan, Gareth

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

    ISBN: 0-566-05148-6

    LIBRIS-ID: 5049822

    URL: Bibliotekts e-bok/Library e-book

    [New ed.], Aldershot, Gower, 432 s.

    Berger, Peter L.; Luckmann, Thomas

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

    LIBRIS-ID: 416370

    1. ed., Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 203 s.

    Lakoff, George; Johnson, Mark

    Metaphors we live by

    ISBN: 0-226-46800-3

    LIBRIS-ID: 4718211

    Chicago, Univ. of Chicago Press, xiii, 242 s.

    Kahneman, Daniel; Svensson, Pär

    Tänka, snabbt och långsamt

    ISBN: 9789186815837

    LIBRIS-ID: 14180513

    URL: Omslagsbild

    Volante,

    Weick, Karl E.

    Sensemaking in organizations

    ISBN: 0-8039-7176-1

    LIBRIS-ID: 5691818

    Thousand Oaks, Calif., Sage, xii, 231 s.

    Latour, Bruno

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

    ISBN: 0-19-925604-7

    LIBRIS-ID: 9940991

    Oxford, University Press, viii, 301 s.

    Schumpeter, Joseph Alois

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

    LIBRIS-ID: 10288959

    New York, Oxford U.P., 255 s.

    Pfeffer, Jeffrey; Salancik, Gerald R.

    The external control of organizations: a resource dependence perspective

    ISBN: 0-06-045193-9

    LIBRIS-ID: 4489295

    New York, Harper & Row, 300 s.

    Penrose, Edith Tilton

    The theory of the growth of the firm

    ISBN: 0-19-828978-2

    LIBRIS-ID: 4627377

    3. ed., Oxford, Oxford Univ. Press, xxiii, 272 s.

    Ricœur, Paul; Thompson, John B.

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

    ISBN: 978-1-107-14497-2

    LIBRIS-ID: 19965494

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

    Ricœur, Paul

    From text to action

    ISBN: 0-8101-0978-6

    LIBRIS-ID: 5721072

    Evanston, Ill., Northwestern University Press, xvi, 346 p.

    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,

    Flyvbjerg, B,

    Five Misunderstandings About Case-Study Research

    Qualitative Inquiry,

    Yilmaz, K,

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

    European Journal of Education,

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

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

    Journal of International Business Studies,

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

    Construct validity in psychological tests

    Psychological bulletin,

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Grade

Three-grade scale