2006-kurser
Metodeseminar
From: 2005/01/24 To: 2005/01/25Lecturers: Øivin Andersen, Institutt for lingvistikk og litteraturvitenskap Sandra Halverson, Engelsk institutt Tor Hauken, Seksjon for gresk, latin og egyptologi, IKRR, UiB
Responsible: Øivin Andersen, Institutt for lingvistikk og litteraturvitenskap, Tor Hauken, Seksjon for gresk, latin og egyptologi, IKRR, UiB og Sandra Halverson, Engelsk institutt
Målsetning: Innføring i noen sentrale begreper og spørsmål knyttet til forskningsprosessen, som problemstilling, hypoteser, valg av metode og materiale Further information: johanna.barddal@nor.uib.no
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Ledelsesteknologi, interorganisatoriske realtioner og performance management
From: 2005/01/31 To: 2005/03/08 Registration Deadline: 2004/12/15Lecturers: Professor Jan Mouritsen, CBS.
Responsible: Jan Mouritsen
Kurset tager udgangspunkt i spørgsmålet om, hvorledes man studerer "systemer" især i en verden, hvor det ikke er klart, hvor et system slutter og et andet starter. Kurset drejer sig om, hvorledes sådanne "systemer" bliver og kan blive gjort ledelsesbare, og derfor indeholder det en særlig forholden sig til, hvorledes systemer gøres "praktiserbare". Dette drejer sig typisk om, hvorledes man ser systemers ressourcer og aktiviteter som noget, der skal "performe" - altså skal eller kan skabe resultater og gøres ansvarlige. Further information: gj.om@cbs.dk
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Reflexive Methodology in Political Science, Public Administration and Policy Analysis
From: 2005/03/14 To: 2005/03/18 Registration Deadline: 2005/02/01Lecturers: Peter Bogason, professor (Public Administration), Roskilde University.
Responsible: Professor of Public Administration Peter Bogason, University of Roskilde
According to Mats Alvesson and Kaj Skjöldberg's book on the subject, "reflexive methodology" indicates a complex relationship between processes of knowledge production and the various contexts of such processes as well as the involvement of the knowledge producer. In traditional social science the role of the researcher is to stay "outside", and the various research variables are placed under control in order to enhance objectivity. In reflexive methdology, various kinds of linguistic, social, political and theoretical elements concerning the research context are brought into play in the research process, during which empirical material is constructed, interpreted and re-interpreted. Further information: sek@polforsk.dk
Read more: http://polforsk.dk/course_full_view?nn=616The State of the Art in Institutional Analysis
From: 2005/05/09 To: 2005/05/12 Registration Deadline: 2005/03/01Lecturers:
Responsible: Professor Ove K. Pedersen, Director, International Center for Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School.
Institutional analysis has witnessed a renaissance during the last twenty years or so. Several theoretical and methodological approaches have been developed and have been advanced by scholars with impressive results. Rational choice, historical, organizational, and discursive versions of institutional analysis have flourished. So too have methodological approaches within institutional analysis that emphasize macro-level and micro-level perspectives, formal modeling and inductive data dredging, qualitative and quantitative techniques, and historical and cross-sectional research designs. Regardless of the approach, institutional analysis has been used to explain change in health care systems, post-communist political economies, advanced capitalist welfare states, politics, markets, labor unions, citizenship rights, national economic success and failure, private corporations, and much more. Further information: op.cbp@cbs.dk,ma.cbp@cbs.dk
Read more: http://polforsk.dk/course_full_view?nn=635Kenneth Waltz: Theory and practice in International Politics
From: 2005/05/09 To: 2005/05/13 Registration Deadline: 2005/05/01Lecturers: Kenneth N. Waltz, University of Columbia
Responsible: Kenneth N. Waltz, Columbia University
The discipline of international relations is contentious and disagrees about most things. One point where almost everybody will agree is that the most influential theorist of the last 50 years is Kenneth N. Waltz. Not only did he device one of the most distinct and powerful theories, neo-realism, he also influenced all other schools and debates by setting the terms for how to think about theory in the field. The Danish Ph.D. School is proud to be able to announce a one week course with Kenneth Waltz. The emphasis will be as much on devicing and evaluating theories as on the specifics of realist theories. The course runs over five full days with discussion each afternoon of papers by the participants: May 9-13 2005. Further information: sek@polforsk.dk
Read more: http://polforsk.dk/course_full_view?nn=800Ph. D. Course in modern sociological theory 2005
From: 2005/05/13 To: 2005/05/18 Registration Deadline: 2005/04/15Lecturers: Klaus Rasborg, Sverre Raffsøe, Niels Aakerstrøm, Martin Munk, Lars Bo Kaspersen
Responsible: Øjvind Larsen
Many PhD students are confronted with sociological problems in their projects. Therefore it can be very useful to get a broad general view of the topics in modern sociological theory, and it is also the intention of this course to give such a survey. The course will give a broad introduction to the theories discussed these years. There will be a special presentation of Anthony Giddens, Pierre Bourdieu, Ulrich Beck, Zygmunt Bauman, Michel Foucault, Jürgen Habermas and Niklas Luhmann. Further information: larsen@cbs.dk
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Forskerkursus i Teorikonstruktion
From: 2005/05/16 To: 2005/05/20 Registration Deadline: 2005/04/15Lecturers:
Responsible: Gorm Harste, lektor, Institut for Statskundskab, Århus Universitet
Kursets formål er at tilvejebringe forskerstuderende en forståelse for de grundlæggende problemstillinger, der spænder fra logik over empirisk-historiske fænomener til den intuition, der ligger bag forsøgene på at konstruere de store samfundsteorier. Her tænkes dels på de klassiske teorier af Marx, Durkheim og Weber, dels på de "nye klassikere", Habermas, Luhmann, Foucault og Bourdieu. Hvad vil det sige at udfordre og afprøve den type teorier? Hvornår er man "kommet ind i" teorierne, og hvad skal der til, for at et overblik over dem er tilstrækkeligt? Frem for alt: Hvilket teoretisk inventar kan bruges til at konstruere teorier?
Read more: http://polforsk.dk/course_full_view?nn=637Deleuze, Foucault and Luhmann: Between Politics and Economy
From: 2005/05/18 To: 2005/05/20Lecturers: Assistant Professor Bent Meier Sørensen, Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, CBS
Responsible: Assistant Professor Bent Meier Sørensen, Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, CBS
The field between economy and politics remains contested. Any conflict arising in this field will emerge differently, whether the conflict is considered as an economical manifestation, or as political. Thus, the question of how to draw the distinction between politics and economy is dependent on our tools of observation. This course is interested in how post-foundationalist social thinkers address this question. These accounts do not assume that there is always already a pre-existing object, but are interested in the (de)construction of their objects, i.e. in our case of politics and economics. The course singles out three influential social thinkers, in order to present and discuss their contributions to re-thinking politics and economy based on the notion of difference: Luhmann, Foucault, and Deleuze. Further information: tbr.lpf@cbs.dk
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Social Capital, Volunteering and Welfare States in Europe
From: 2005/05/23 To: 2005/05/24 Registration Deadline: 2005/05/15Lecturers: Thomas P.Boje, Paul Dekker, Lars Hulgård,Karl Henrik Sivesind
Responsible: Co-ordinator: Thomas P. Boje
The aim of the Ph. D Course is to discuss the relationship between civil society, welfare institutions and civic participation in Europe. Focus will be on the importance of volunteering for active citizenship and how differences in level of social capital influence social participation and social cohesion in different welfare systems. Civic participation is widespread among European citizens but the pattern differs strongly depending on the structuring of the structure and size of the social welfare sector. During the course we want to present results from research on volunteering, social capital and non-profit institutions and how these institutions have impact on the development of the welfare system in different European countries.
Further information:
boje@ruc.dk
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Welfare state models and comparative analyses of welfare society
From: 2005/05/30 To: 2005/06/02 Registration Deadline: 2005/05/02Lecturers: <br> - Jørgen Goul Andersen<br> - Bent Greve<br> - Olli Kangas<br> - Niels Ploug
Responsible: Co-ordinators: Jørgen Goul Andersen & Bent Greve
The course will discuss:
1) theoretical understandings of welfare state models and their relevance;
2) the effect of current challenges on different types of welfare states;
3) patterns of change, including the question of convergence or divergence;
4) methodological problems in comparative welfare state research.
Further information:
hma@socsci.aau.dk
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Research Design, Research Methodology and Research Ethics
From: 2005/06/13 To: 2005/06/16 Registration Deadline: 2005/05/02Lecturers:
Responsible: Welfare State and Difference, The Post-Graduate School, Co-ordinators: Associate professors, Ruth Emerek & Søren Kristiansen
The object of the Ph.D.-course is to present and discuss research design and methodology in connection with the Ph.D.-project. The course gives an overall introduction and the aim is to give inspiration to the Ph.D.-project and pinpoint pitfalls, problems an ethical questions. The course is regarded as an interdisciplinary introduction to design and methodology and should be followed by special courses in selected methodologies. An extra outcome of the course will be informal networks between Ph.D.-students. Further information: annskov@socsci.auc.dk
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The Transformations of Philosophy of Science – Research, Knowledge, and Application
From: 2005/06/16 To: 2005/06/17 Registration Deadline: 2005/05/10Lecturers:
Responsible: Welfare State and Difference, The Post-Graduate School, Co-ordinators: Associate professors, Ruth Emerek & Søren Kristiansen
During the 20th century and with the help of philosophers of science as Thomas Kuhn and Paul Feyerabend the competition between the 'objective' (positivism and quantification) and the 'subjective' (interpretation and qualitative research) that had been dominant within the social sciences so far has been blurred on many frontiers. On the one hand social constructivism questioned the presuppositions that are lying behind the so-called rationality standards of Western Civilisation: objectivity as the view from nowhere (Thomas Nagel), value freedom, descriptivism and correspondence theory of truth. On the other hand are research and science nowadays part of institutionalised and politically controlled or steered systems, where utility and application is taken as a goal of science in general. For the social sciences this is a challenging situation. In current discussions about the scientific profile of social science research a number of approaches are debated: critical realism, critical theory and discourse theory, different types of social constructivism and pragmatism. The course will discuss these recent approaches with regard to their relevance for the practice of the social sciences. The course will also focus on the socio-political relevance of the social sciences that is a central problem for a pragmatic and applied understanding of social science research.The aim of the Ph.D. course is to give students the possibility to sharpen their own philosophy of science viewpoint and relate their problem formulation and empirical research to the recent debate. The course will combine discussions with lecturing and like to encourage students to enter a critical discussion of their presuppositions and basic concepts. Further information: annskov@socsci.auc.dk
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Advanced Theories of the Policy Process and Strategies for their Application
From: 2005/09/21 To: 2005/09/28Lecturers: Professor Paul Sabatier, lektor and Ph.D. Morten Balle Hansen and researchprofessor Søren Winter.
Responsible: Professor Paul Sabatier, University of California, Associte Professor Morten Balle Hansen, University of Southern Denmark and Søren Winter The Danish National Institute of Social Research
The history of Policy Analysis; The current theory and practice of Policy Analysis; The Need for Theory and Multiple Theories; Criteria for Comparing and Evaluating Theories; Frameworks, Theories and Models; The Stages Approach in Policy Analysis; Institutional theories and their application in the analysis of the Policy Process; Top-down and Bottom-up Approaches to Analyzing the Policy Process; The Advocacy Coalition Framework and its Application in the Analysis of the Policy Process; Multiple Streams Theory; Social Constructionist Theory; Cultural Theory; Innovation and Diffusion Models in Policy Research; Theories of Implementation; Theories of Evaluation.
We will examine the above topics in some depth and adapt the exact priority of the topics to the Ph.D. students who participate in the seminar. Since Paul Sabatier is one of the founding fathers of the Advocacy Coalition Framework we will provide an in depth examination of this approach to Policy Analysis.
Further information:
sek@polforsk.dk
Citizenship: dimensions, problems, challenges
From: 2005/10/04 To: 2005/10/08 Registration Deadline: 2005/09/05Lecturers: Professor Bryan S. Turner, UK, Director Jean-Claude Barbier, France, Professor Birgit Pfau-Effinger, Germany, Professor Jørgen Goul Andersen, Denmark, Professor Birte Siim, Denmark, Professor Per H. Jensen, Denmark, Professor Olli Kangas, Finland/Denmark,
Responsible: Associate professor, Per H. Jensen.
Using T.H. Marshall as a point of departure, the aim of the PhD course is theoretically and empirically to clarify the dimensions of the concept of citizenship; to discuss the inherent problems of the concept; to discuss new challenges to citizenship in the face of changing labour markets, globalisation, the emergence of new gender roles etc; and to discuss the effects of citizenship in terms of social integration and cohesion. Further information: hma@socsci.aau.dk
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Systemteori i Praksis
From: 2005/10/14 To: 2005/10/24 Registration Deadline: 2005/10/10Lecturers: Dr. Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Professor Gunther Teubner, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, Wendelin Reich
Responsible: Gæsteprofessor , Dr.juris, cand.jur. Inger-Johanne Sand, Institut for Ledelse,Politik & Filosofi, Copenhagen Business School
I efteråret afholdes en forskningsseminar/ph.d. kursus række med overskriften Systemteori i praksis. Tre internationale forskere gæster Institut for Ledelse, Politik & Filosofi for at fremlægge deres arbejde med systemteorien. Rækken inkluderer det tre dage lange ph.d. kursus med Gunther Teubner, som også er annonceret separat. Fra 15. september kan artikler til seminarerne og kurset rekvireres hos Tine Buskjær Rasmussen: . Further information: tbr.lpf@cbs.dk
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The Critical Analysis of Political Discourse
From: 2005/10/24 To: 2005/10/26 Registration Deadline: 2005/09/01Lecturers: Associate professor Lilie Chouliaraki, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark (MediaHub)<br>
Responsible: Professor Norman Fairclough and Associate professor Lilie Chouliaraki
This PhD course extends the critical discourse analysis tradition by addressing two relatively neglected questions. How can critical discourse analysis be applied by political scientists unfamiliar with linguistics? How can the critical analysis of political discourse incorporate the study of images (still and moving) and, more broadly, the study of new technologies of communication? Thus, even though the course primarily addresses political scientists, it is also highly relevant to a broad spectrum of research students, including anthropologists, educationalists, sociologists, psychologists and media and cultural studies students. Further information: sek@polforsk.dk
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From: 2005/11/14 To: 2005/11/18 Registration Deadline: 2005/10/03Lecturers: Professor Peter Munk Christiansen, Institut for Statskundskab, Syddansk Universitet <br>
Responsible: professor Peter Munk Christiansen, professor Lise Togeby og Politologisk Forskerskole
De senere år har samfundsvidenskaberne interesseret sig stadig mere for magt og magtbegrebet i en dansk sammenhæng ikke mindst på grund af Magtudredningen. Kurset beskæftiger sig med magtbegrebets og dets anvendelse i empirisk samfundsforskning. Deltagerne skal forud for kurset udarbejde et notat, som beskæftiger sig med det eller de magtbegreber, som indgår i deltagernes egne projekter. Further information: sek@polforsk.dk
Read more:Organizing Theory
From: 2005/11/14 To: 2005/11/16 Registration Deadline: 2005/11/01Lecturers: Dr Campbell Jones, Dir., Centre of Philosophy and Political Economy, Leicester Univ., UK
Responsible: Assistant professor, Ph.d., Bent Meier Sørensen, Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School
This course will look into the challenges poststructuralist theory poses to organization studies and the social sciences. Its point of departure is the projects of the involved students, and its aim is to enhance the projects' methodological and theoretical construction. This involves the active participation of students and it also involves discussions of a number of modern theorists like Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Emmanuel Levinas, Bruno Latour and more. Also, the faculty and invited guest speakers will present state of the art research within poststructuralist organization studies and social theory. Further information: tbr.lpf@cbs.dk
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Last call: State Theory
From: 2005/11/26 To: 2005/12/02 Registration Deadline: 2005/11/01Lecturers: Prof. John A. Hall (McGill University and Honorar professor at University of Copenhagen)
Responsible: John A. Hall (McGill University and Honorar professor at University of Copenhagen).
Twenty years ago an intellectual movementled by Charles Tilly, Theda Skocpol and Michael Manninsisted that the state be brought back into the centre of social science. This seminar looks back at those arguments, assesses them, and pays attention to new areas in which state theory is making a contribution. Further information: vec@sociology.ku.dk
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Advanced Data analysis in the Social Sciences using Stata
From: 2006/01/02 To: 2006/01/06 Registration Deadline: 2005/12/01Lecturers:
Responsible: profesor Søren Risbjerg Thomsen, Department of Political Science, Aahus University
The purpose of the course is to let the participants learn practical skills in advanced quantitative data analysis. Special focus will be on those methods developed within econometrics that are increasingly used for data analysis within sociology and comparative politics. Thus, the methods will primarily be applied to the kind of data used within these subjects. Since SPSS lacks the necessary statistical tools, the participants will learn to use the statistical package STATA. In general, STATA is increasingly used for social science data analysis instead of SPSS. Further information: sek@polforsk.dk
Read more: http://polforsk.dk/course_full_view?nn=756Institutional Organizational Analysis – Change and Transformation
From: 2006/01/16 To: 2006/01/19 Registration Deadline: 2005/11/01Lecturers: Professor Frank Dobbin, Harvard University <br>
Responsible: Professor Ann Westenholz, Institut for Organisation og Arbejdssociologi, CBS
The course focuses on the school within institutional theory that is rooted in sociology and not in economic theory. Within this boundary, first we concern ourselves with the provocative foundational works of organizational neoinstitutionalism. We will review institutional contributions, exploring the unique, social constructionist approach used by organizational sociologists. Next, we will turn to some of the more recent advances in institutional analysis. Neoinstitutionalists are distinctive in that they are both historical and interpretive in orientation, exploring historical change and transformations in the meaning of organizational structures and practices. We analyze how institutions are constructed and diffused; how institutional elements are incorporated into and translated inorganizations as well as how institutional change and institutional entrepreneurship is taking place. We discuss diverse methodological approaches to the study of institutionalization processes macro- as well as micro approaches. Further information: aeh.ioa@cbs.dk
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Intersectional Analysis
From: 2006/01/18 To: 2006/01/21 Registration Deadline: 2005/11/07Lecturers: Professor Beverley Skeggs, Sociology Department. Goldsmiths University of London; Professor Ann Phoenix, Open University, Milton Keynes; Professor Keith Pringle, Aalborg University; Associate Professor Jørgen Elm Larsen, University of Copenhagen and Assoc
Responsible: Forskerskolen Velfærdsstat og Forskelighed
The notion of intersectionality has been used in recent feminist debates in order to conceptualize how gender interacts with other social differentiations and power relations such as ethnicity, class, age and sexuality in modern complex societies. The idea of intersectionality seeks to capture the consequences of the intersection of several systems of subordination both in relation to structures and in relation to constructions of overlapping and multiple identities. The purpose of the Ph.D. seminar will be to introduce and develop the notion of intersectionality and to present and discuss examples on intersectional analysis. We have invited key-note speakers who have been working with intersectional analysis and Danish speakers to give papers and to participate in the discussions. Further information: hma@socsci.aau.dk
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The research process and how to get a PhD out of it: Introduction course for PhD students
From: 2006/01/23 To: 2006/01/24 Registration Deadline: 2005/12/16Lecturers: Professor Jan Mattsson, RUC, Ass.,Professor Erik Kloppenborg, ASB, Ass. Prof. John Howells, ASB.
Responsible: Professor Jon Sundbo, Roskilde University, and professor John P. Ulhøi, Aarhus School of Business
This seminar aims at providing the doctoral student with a basic introduction to what s/he is about to experience during a 3-year period as a doctoral student with regard to external expectations, the implications of the critical choices that need to be made early in the process, i.e. with regard to research puzzle and design and the consequences thereof (including not making such decisions in due time). Further information: liw@asb.dk
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Principles of Social Policy - Challenges and Reconceptualisations
From: 2006/01/26 To: 2006/01/26 Registration Deadline: 2005/12/01Lecturers: Keynote Speakers<br> Professor Fiona Williams, The University of Leeds (UK): Can we resolve care as a universal ethic with care as the site of diverse practices and claims?<br> Associate Professor Marianne Skytte, Aalborg University (DK)
Responsible: Associate professor, Dr. Catharina Juul Kristensen, University of Roskilde
The aim of this one-day seminar is to discuss principles of social policy (in a broad sense of the term) in contemporary European welfare states. Focus will be upon challenges of the principles of universality and equality occasioned by contemporary theoretical and political claims of recognition of diversity. In Denmark thorough academic discussions of principles such as these are surprisingly few. This seminar hopes to position the debate firmly on the social scientific agenda, drawing upon the inspiring research from international research environments, such as the critical social policy research in Britain. Research on ethnicity, gender, and more generally recognition of diversity and the simultaneous need for redistribution are likewise drawn upon. Further information: sfr@ruc.dk
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Akademisk Engelsk (for Danish students) - AFLYST!
From: 2006/02/06 To: 2006/02/20 Registration Deadline: 2006/01/15Lecturers: lektor Morten Pilegaard
Responsible: Videnskabelig kommunikation v/ Professor, Morten Pilegaard, HHÅ
Formålet er at give deltagerne professionelle sprogværktøjer, der sætter dem i stand til at producere optimale videnskabelige tekster på engelsk. Kurset veksler mellem korte teoretiske indlæg om samfundsvidenskabelige teksters typiske træk og praktiske øvelser, der træner deltagerne i at producere og rette tekster, så beskrivelser og argumenter fremstår klart og tydeligt på et professionelt akademisk engelsk. Kurset bygger på den nyeste litteratur om tekstgenrer og videnskabeligt engelsk, de seneste retningslinier fra videnskabelige tidsskrifter, og kursuslederens praktiske erfaringer med at rette og revidere videnskabelige tekster. Der sættes sprogligt fokus på samspillet mellem forskellige tekstgenrers stil, form og struktur og på udvalgte grammatiske og idiomatiske områder, der er særligt vigtige i videnskabelige tekster, og som traditionelt volder danskere problemer. Further information: sek@polforsk.dk
Read more: http://polforsk.dk/course_full_view?nn=767Interpretive Political Science
From: 2006/03/06 To: 2006/03/08 Registration Deadline: 2006/02/01Lecturers: Professor of Political Science Mark Bevir
Responsible: The Danish Political Science Research School and Professor of Political Science Mark Bevir
This Ph.d. course explores recent work on the theory and practice of interpretive political science. It looks specifically at: the relationship of interpretive political science to other approaches, philosophical issues of interpretation, and analytic strategies for deploying an interpretive theory to explore empirical cases.
Session one: Interpretive Political Science;
Session two: Theories of Interpretation;
Session three: Analytic Strategies and Empirical Cases.
Further information:
sek@polforsk.dk
Management, Politics and Philosophy: An interdisciplinary perspectives on managing complexity in business organizations
From: 2006/03/06 To: 2006/03/10 Registration Deadline: 2006/02/15Lecturers:
Responsible: Department of Management, Politics and Philosofy, CBS, course responsible: Jan Mouritsen
Modern organizational life is becoming increasingly unpredictable and complex, and the demands on management are therefore growing increasingly open-ended. It is for this reason that the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy (MPP) has established an interdisciplinary platform to foster a variety of approaches to the modern business organisation. This course provides a range of perspective and tools that have been drawn from this platform to understand current management conditions, reflecting current trends within the literature. Here, some call for a shift in the strategy debate towards and appreciation of the evolutionary development of detailed processes and practices in the day-to-day micro-activities of organisational life. Further information: tbr.lpf@cbs.dk
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Qualitative design and method part 1 and 2
From: 2006/03/15 To: 2006/04/04 Registration Deadline: 2006/03/01Lecturers:
Responsible: Doctoral School of Knowledge and Management, CBS, course responsible: Finn Hansson
The course will focus in the issues in planning, conducting and writing up a qualitative research study. Topics will include the aims and purposes of qualitative research, strenghts and weaknesses, problem formulation, research planning and design, approaches to interviewing, observation and documenting, focus group research, use of narrative, analytic methods in qualitative research and evaluating qualitative research. Further information: tbr.lpf@cbs.dk
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From Bureaucracy to Entrepreneurial Governance? Person, Ethics and Organization in the New Public Management
From: 2006/03/20 To: 2006/03/21 Registration Deadline: 2006/01/09Lecturers: Professor Paul du Gay, The Open University (http://www.cresc.man.ac.uk/people/p_dugay.htm)
Responsible: Associated Professor Anne Reff Pedersen , Department of Organizationa and Industrial Sociology, CBS.
The course has three central concerns. First, it focuses upon the purposes and character of public administrative activity and outlines its distinctive bureaucratic style, one that is formed from the unique nature of the tasks it undertakes. In particular, attention focuses upon the role of the public administration as an institution of government and its crucial role in running a state. Special attention is paid to the 'ethos' of public bureaucratic office and, in particular, its capacity to provide the public bureaucrat with a distinctive 'persona' or ethical bearing and status-conduct. Second, the course explores the emergence of the 'entrepreneurial model' and delineates its key characteristics. In particular, it seeks to outline and analyse the 'management culture', or organizational norms and techniques, that the entrepreneurial model espouses, the characteristic ethics it advocates for the conduct of management, and the new conceptions of what it means to perform 'public service' that it introduces. Further information: aeh.ioa@cbs.dk
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Writing for Research Purposes - 3-day Doctoral Workshop for Students of Management and Organization
From: 2006/03/29 To: 2006/03/31 Registration Deadline: 2006/02/01Lecturers: Professor Peter Case, University of the West of England, UK Associate Professor, Annette Risberg, CBS Professor Stephen Linstead, University of York, UK
Responsible: Annette Risberg, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Whatever kind of doctoral research one undertakes and within whatever intellectual tradition, possessing skill in writing is an essential ingredient of successful completion. No matter how talented or gifted the student, unless s/he is able to translate observation, interpretation and insight into forms that entice, enthral or otherwise engage an audience, her efforts are likely to be in vain. Of course, one does not need to be a literary genius to succeed as a professional academic, but having a basic competence is imperative. Beyond a rudimentary skill, more-over, developing an appealing writing style can greatly enhance one's chances of being read widely by colleagues and those outside of one's immediate field of interest and expertise. In our view, writing is not an innate or fixed talent. It can be worked at and developed over the time span of a doctoral research project and beyond. This workshop is thus intended to pro-vide strategies and techniques to help students improve their research writing skills. From the early stages of beginning a literature review through to publishing one's work in prestigious scholarly journals, we aim to address a range of writing issues that face the aspiring re-searcher. All of the tutors on this programme are experienced academics who will gladly share their understanding of the writing process and offer informed advice on how to enhance your skill set. The workshop is intended primarily for doctoral students working in the fields of management and organization studies. Colleagues in the early stages of their publishing career may also find the content of the programme relevant and helpful. It is envisaged that the writing issues to be tackled (see indicative content below) are of such a sufficiently general nature that they transcend sub-disciplinary boundaries; hence students from various management backgrounds organization studies, HRM, marketing, accoun-tancy and finance, strategic management, etc. will benefit from the workshop. Further information: bsr.ikl@cbs.dk
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Foucault og Praksis
From: 2006/04/04 To: 2006/04/07 Registration Deadline: 2006/03/15Lecturers: Lecturers:<br> Bemærk at vi arbejder på at invitere en international gæst, som har arbejdet teoretisk udviklende med Foucault, som debattør og underviser på kursets sidste dag. <p> Associate professor Asmund Born, CBS
Responsible: Associate Professor Asmund Born, CBS
For os virker det som om, der transversalt gennem Foucaults
skrifter går en og kun en anstrengelse, nemlig at indkredse
praksis som den afgørende menneskelige aktivitet. En
anstrengelse som bærer kimen til sin egen selvpropellering i sig,
fordi den netop kun kan udtrykkes i praksis.
På den baggrund inviteres Phd. studerende til sammen med os at
afsøge den Foucaultske problematisering ved at overveje, hvilke
spørgsmål der bliver påtrængende, hvorledes disse kan
begrebsliggøres og med hvilke konsekvenser for konstitueringen
af indsigten og dennes udformning. Dette handler i bund og grund
om at åbne spørgsmålet om, hvorfra der tænkes og tales? Hvilke
konsekvenser har den status som teoretisering og teori tildeles
hos Foucault for den konkret udførte videnskabelige praksis?
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tbr.lpf@cbs.dk
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Discourse of Institutional Copetitiveness in Regional Economic Integration
From: 2006/04/18 To: 2006/04/21Lecturers: Associate Professor Leonard Seabrooke, CBP, CBS Associate Professor Ben Rosamond Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick
Responsible: Associate Professor Leonard Seabrooke
The construction of regional identities is not a self-evident but socially constructed process. Similarly, the notion of 'institutional competitiveness' within regional economies emerges from discursive practices that fulfill both strategic interests and imagined 'deep core' values. Discourses on institutional competitiveness within a regional economy provide a legitimating tool to further a process of regional identity formation and integration. Such discourses seek to construct the idea of regionally based subjects, so that, for example, 'Europeans' consider that they are part of a European economic space. The construction of a regional economic identity on institutional competitiveness, if successful, establishes new governance practices for economic, political, and social life. It also provides a response to, and is enabled by, broader processes of economic globalization. This workshop investigates the use of discourses on institutional competitiveness for regional economic integration through comparisons of discourses of regional identity in Europe and in Asia. It explores discourses from national, supranational, and international authorities, as well as broader discourses on globalization. Further information: ls.cbp@cbsdk
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Interactionist analysis
From: 2006/05/03 To: 2006/05/05 Registration Deadline: 2006/03/30Lecturers: Lecturers:<br> Professor Mats Alvesson, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, Lunds Universitet<br> Professor Gale Miller, Department of Social and Cultural Sciences, Marquette University
Responsible: Assistant Professor Nanna Mik-Meyer, CBS & Adjunct Associate Professor Lise Justesen, CBS
During the seminar various versions and aspects of interactionism will be discussed. A number of researchers today are inspired by constructivism and interactionism on an abstract level, considering the "truths" of the field as constructions resulting from interaction. However, the researchers' own work is often inconsistently exempted form this rule. But what happens if we view not only the general social world but also our own research material as a fluid and instable phenomenon that is generated through interaction? Further information: lj.om@cbs.dk
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The Erosion of Hierarchies
From: 2006/05/03 To: 2006/05/05 Registration Deadline: 2006/04/15Lecturers: Helmuth Willke (Frankfurt), Professor Niels Åkerstrøm Andersen (CBS), Visiting Professor Inger-Johanne Sand (CBS)
Responsible: Inger-Johanne Sand (CBS)
This seminar wants to address partly what the new scenario of hybrids, cooperation and interaction looks like, and partly what effects the new organizational forms and cooperation have on governance and decision-making. Are forms of accountability and control still possible, and are they necessary and desired? That is: what are the conditions of creativity and of power in the new organizational forms, and how does this effect the relations among the actors and the tasks performed. The study of the communicative differentiation of society, of communicative systems and second order observation (Luhmann) and of the discursivity in communication (Foucault) will be some of the main theoretical instruments to an increased understanding of the new forms of interaction, interdependence and governance among organizations. The seminar will be cross-disciplinary involving systems-theory, organization theory, law and political science. Further information: tbr.lpf@cbs.dk
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Moderne Sociologisk Teori 2006
From: 2006/05/05 To: 2006/10/28 Registration Deadline: 2006/03/10Lecturers: Professor Niels Aakerstrøm Andersen, Professor Lars Bo Kaspersen, Professor Sverre Raffnsøe, Lektor Martin Munk, Lektor Klaus Rasborg og Lektor Øjvind Larsen
Responsible: IOA, Copenhagen Business School, lektor Øjvind Larsen
Mange PhD studerende støder på sociologiske og organisationsteoretiske problemstillinger i arbejdet med deres afhandlinger. Derfor kan det være meget nyttigt at få en generel introduktion til den moderne sociologi og dens betydning for organisationer. Dette kursus har til formål at give en
sådan introduktion. I kurset vil der blive givet en introduktion til de mest centrale teorier, som diskuteres i disse år. Der vil være specielle præsentationer af henholdsvis Anthony Giddens, Pierre Bourdieu, Zygmunt Bauman, Jürgen Habermas, Niklas Luhmann og Ulrich Beck. De væsentlige problemstillinger i deres teorier vil blive præsenteret og diskuteret, og der vil blive lagt vægt på, hvilke konsekvenser disse sociologiske teorier har for forståelsen af moderne organisationer.
Ansøgningsskema
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larsen@cbs.dk
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The Philosophy of leadership
From: 2006/05/15 To: 2006/05/17 Registration Deadline: 2006/05/01Lecturers: Lecturers:<br> Professor Ole Fogh Kirkeby, Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, CBS.
Responsible: Professor Ole Fogh Kirkeby, Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, CBS.
It is the aim of this course to present a comprehensive view of leadership that clearly distinguishes it from management. The decisive difference is the sense in which leadership can be approached as an art and to do so means that we must understand what an "event" is as such. The course draws on the whole of the European philosophical tradition to shed light on this important aspect of modern leadership. Further information: tbr.lpf@cbs.dk
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Comparative Political Economy: Institutional Reasons for National Economic Success in a Global World
From: 2006/05/17 To: 2006/05/19Lecturers: John. L. Campbell, Professor of Sociology, Dartmouth College, USA and International Center for Business and Politics, CBS, Denmark. Ove K. Pedersen, Professor of Comparative Political Economy, International Center for Business and Politics, CBS, Denmar
Responsible: Professor Ove K. Pedersen and Professor John L. Campbell
This course will review recent comparative research and the theoretical and methodological debates associated with it on the "Varieties of Capitalism" within comparative political economy. In particular, it will address the following issues: Are there distinct national types of capitalism? How far and in what ways do developed capitalist economies differ from one another in their social organization, institutional embeddedness, and modes of governance? The course will discuss how national governments, firms, and international organizations can learn from the debates on the Varieties of Capitalism. Further information: op.cbp@cbs.dk
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CANCELLED! Imperial Ideologies
From: 2006/05/22 To: 2006/05/26 Registration Deadline: 2006/03/13Lecturers: Professor Jens Bartelson, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen
Responsible: Professor Jens Bartelson, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen
Recent changes in world politics have led some scholars to suggest that there exists a global empire, however defined. Since what distinguishes empires from other forms of political dominion is their reliance on different modes of symbolic authority rather than sheer force, the presence of such symbolic authority is frequently taken to be indicative of the existence of imperial forms of power.Drawing upon recent state of the art studies of imperial ideologies, the course aims to provide the participants with an understanding of the crucial role that these ideologies have played in the past, as well the tools necessary for analyzing imperial ideologies in our present world. Further information: sek@polforsk.dk
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From: 2006/05/31 To: 2006/06/02 Registration Deadline: 2006/03/01Lecturers: Invited speakers (to be confirmed):<br> · Neil Coe (University of Manchester)<br> · Peter Gibbon (Danish Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen)<br> · Rajah Rasiah (University of Malaya)<br> · Stephanie Barrientos (IDS Sussex)
Responsible: Director, Associate Professor, Henrik Schaumburg-Müller, Centre for Business and Development Studies, CBS.
The aim of the course is to present and discuss selected theoretical approaches to understand globalisation and the impact of outsourcing on firms, industries and labour in developing countries, discuss associated methodological issues and identify strategies and policies at firm, sector, national and international level. The discussion will take place in plenum as well as in workshops. Further information: bsr.ikl@cbs.dk
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Constructivist Political Economy and Institutional Change
From: 2006/06/06 To: 2006/06/09 Registration Deadline: 2006/04/15Lecturers:
Responsible: Associate Professor Leonard Seabrooke
The fields of comparative and international political economy have long been dominated by 'rationalist' schools of thought that see actors' interest as automatically given by their structural position when faced with political and economic change. Recently, however, 'constructivist' approaches to political economy have emerged that question how actors know their interests. Rather than appealing to a notion of given self-interests, constructivists argue that interests are informed by ideas and norms about how the economy and the polity 'should' work given the prevailing social context. Here ideas serve as weapons and blueprints that inform institutional change. Struggles over ideas for institutional change take place particularly during periods of radical uncertainty engendered by economic crises. During such periods norm entrepreneurs can use ideas to reconfigure actors' interests. Moreover, in periods of 'normality', a range of social actors can also provide impulses for governments and business to initiate institutional change in accordance with concerns for broader social legitimacy. Further information: ls.cbp@cbs.dk
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Organizational Identity: Origin, Methods and Future Perspectives
From: 2006/06/12 To: 2006/06/14 Registration Deadline: 2006/04/03Lecturers: Professor Majken Schultz Professor Mary Jo Hatch Professor Mats Alvesson
Responsible: Professor Majken Schultz, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
This doctoral seminar focuses on the topic of organizational identity and related constructs such as organization culture and stakeholder images. The objective is to bring together doctoral stu-dents interested in this topic, from different nationalities and intellectual and methodological tradi-tions, to discuss, argue, and share ideas with leading identity researchers from Denmark, Swe-den and the U.S The course will be a combination of lectures, discussions, working sessions and student presen-tations. We will assume you are familiar with basic ideas and definitions of organizational identity, but if not, "prerequisite" reading will permit students not expert in culture to attend and participate fully. Further information: bsr.ikl@cbs.dk
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Reforming Constitutional Orders: Governance for experimentalist organizations and institutions.
From: 2006/06/12 To: 2006/06/16Lecturers: Professor Charles Sabel, Columbia Law School, NY<br> Professor Peer Hull Kristensen, Center for Business and Politics, CBS
Responsible: Professor Peer Hull Kristensen, Center for Business and Politics, CBS
Whereas in ordinary approaches such problems of governance under volatile conditions are treated as residual, this course takes them to be fundamental. It offers a perspective on governance and "learning by monitoring" that radically changes the perspective on how plastic and flexible institutions may be accountably constructed in the emerging new economy. The upshot is an account of a novel form of coordination, reducible neither to markets or hierarchies, based on a distinctive class of pragmastist routines for revising routines (without sacrificing the stabilizing effect of agreed conventions for action). Further information: phk.cbp@cbs.dk
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Welfare State(s): Equality or Recognition?
From: 2006/08/21 To: 2006/08/22 Registration Deadline: 2006/05/01Lecturers: Keynote speakers: <p> Professor Barbara Hobson (Stockholm University, Sweden): ‘How Recognition Struggles reconfigure frameworks for Inclusion and citizenship in an era of Multi-level Governance and Trans-National Arenas’ <p> Associate Professor Ca
Responsible: Associate Professor, Dr. Hanne Marlene Dahl, University of Roskilde
The aim of this two-day seminar is to discuss key tendencies in discourses of welfare, concerning not only the current issue of the reconstruction and/or the retrenchment of the welfare state, but also the historical transformation of the welfare state, in particular the institutional set-up of different regimes. Focus will be upon 1) the tensions between the aim of equality, especially promoted by the Nordic welfare state, and recent political claims of recognition of
diversity raised by among others women and sexual minorities, and 2) the distinction between public and private responsibility in regard of current changes in both European welfare states and in the US.
Senior researchers as well as Ph.D. students are welcomed to participate in the seminar without presenting a paper.
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From Bureaucracy to Entrepreneurial Governance? Person, Ethics and Organization in the New Public, Management
From: 2006/08/29 To: 2006/08/30 Registration Deadline: 2006/07/19Lecturers: Professor Paul du Gay, The Open University
Responsible: Associated Professor Anne Reff Pedersen and Professor Paul du Gay, The Open University.
The course operates within a broadly critical sociological, management and organization studies frame of reference. In it we discuss diverse conceptual and methodological approaches to the study of organizational, ethical and personal transformation. These approaches are associated with the work of a number of `key' theorists, central among whom are, for instance, Max Weber and Michel Foucault. The course has two main goals. The first is conceptual. The course focuses on certain key conceptual questions regarding identity, ethics and change in formal organizations. In doing so, it also seeks, secondly, to provide participants with an opportunity to engage with some of the governmental, ethical and organizational issues framing contemporary discussions of public management reform, as well as developing their capacity to analyse these using certain theo- retical resources. Further information: psb.ioa@cbs.dk
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Ethnograpic methods: Data collection and analysis (with Stephen Barley)
From: 2006/09/03 To: 2006/09/05 Registration Deadline: 2006/06/26Lecturers: Professor Stephen Barley, Stanford University
Responsible: Kristian Kreiner, CBS
To give the participant an insight into the most common research tools in ethnographic-type studies. The course will focus on observational methods in particular.
The course will include: 1) preparatory work (readings). 2) Lectures. 3) Practical exercise in doing observational fieldwork. 4) Methods for analysing the results. 5) An essay as the basis for grading the participant.
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Managing Science in Society with Michael Lynch, Steve Woolgar and Alan Irwin
From: 2006/09/04 To: 2006/09/08 Registration Deadline: 2006/08/01Lecturers: Michael Lynch, Cornell University, Steve Woolgar, University of Oxford, Alan Irwin, University of Liverpool, Finn Hansson, Julie Sommerlund & Maja Horst, Copenhagen Business School.
Responsible: Associate Professor Finn Hansson
The aim of the course is to expand students' abilities to understand and participate in knowledge production within the field of STS, as well as to translate important STS insights into practical use in their respective PhD. projects. First of all, the course will provide an understanding of important academic discussions within each of the above three aspects of STS. Secondly, the course will focus on the problems encountered in students' research projects in order to discuss how STS perspectives can help take their individual analyses forward. And finally, the course will facilitate students to consider how they will seek to publish their work in peer-reviewed STS journals. Further information: tbr.lpf@cbs.dk
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The Craft of Making Political and Social Science 2006
From: 2006/09/11 To: 2006/09/15 Registration Deadline: 2006/08/01Lecturers: Professor Ron King, Department of Political Science, San Diego State University <br> Professor Asbjørn Sonne Nørgaard, Department of Political Science, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Responsible: Professor Ron King, Department of Political Science, San Diego State University, and Professor Asbjørn Sonne Nørgaard, Department of Political Science, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
The focus of the seminar will be on the interplay between the ´why, what and how´ of the research process. Although it is often said that the choice of research question and the ´logic of discovery´ is beyond the issue of methodology a lot can still be said about more or less relevant and more or less demanding research questions (given a few uncontroversial assumptions). The issue is partially a question of posing questions that can be researched, given the amount of resources available, and partially a question of taking the literature with which you are debating seriously, and ask - who cares? Further information: sek@polforsk.dk
Read more: http://polforsk.dk/course_full_view?nn=1161New publics with/out democracy: A new approach to the public in latemodernity
From: 2006/09/18 To: 2006/09/22 Registration Deadline: 2006/08/20Lecturers: Professor Clive Barnett, Senior Lecturer Henrik Bang, Senior Lecturer Johannes Andersen, Assistent Professor Anders Esmark
Responsible: Senior Lecturer Henrik Bang.
The course focuses on the problem of the relationship between democracy and publicness and raises the issue of whether these two sets of practices have to be territorially congruent. It challenges and rethinks the theories of the public sphere in their modern Habermasian versions as well as in their postmodern anti-Habermasian versions. It moves beyond the conception of public as comprising the connection between a narrow but powerful parliamentary public with a wide and collectivistic civil society public, dismissing both the overly pessimistic and overly optimistic discourses about the democratic potentials of public reasoning. It also detaches the study of publics from the ontologies and epistemologies of the autonomous state and authentic civil society. New publics with/out democracy are establishing themselves outside of, or on the borderlines between these modern constructs. The study of new publics thus requires a critical re-assessment of the role and identity of parties, media, corporations, voluntary associations, communities and laypeople in the building of publics and the exercise of publicness. Further information: hb@ifs.ku.dk
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Writing for Scientific Conferences: getting in, getting comments, and getting on
From: 2006/09/19 To: 2007/01/01 Registration Deadline: 2006/08/28Lecturers: Professor Finn Borum & Adjunkt Julie Sommerlund
Responsible: Pia Schjødt Brylov - PhD Program in Organizational Analysis
Aim of the course Formålet med kurset er få at overblik over vigtige konferencer, der fokuserer på organisationsanalyser, -teori og -debatter, samt at træne skrivning af abstracts og papers med henblik på konferencedeltagelse og senere publicering. Mao: 1) at finde konferencer, 2) at få adgang til konferencer, og 3) at bruge konferencer konstruktivt. Course content Kurset træner skrivning og konferencedeltagelse og har stærk praksis-forankring både mht. det materiale, der anvendes, og pædagogikken der lægger vægt på deltageraktivitet under former, der direkte forbereder til konstruktiv konferenceanvendelse. Alle abstracts og papers skrives på engelsk. Før den første session præsenteres de studerende for introducerende materiale om diverse konferencer som kan have interesse for forskere i organisationsanalyser. Ved den første session møder de studerende forskere som har stærk tilknytning til disse konferencer. Derefter søger de studerende yderligere information og vælger hvilke(n) konference de ønsker at stile efter at deltage i. De studerende udarbejder et abstract på baggrund af anvisninger og eksempler. Ved den anden session i efteråret diskuteres og kommenteres abstracts (og evt. papers) i grupper. Herefter skrives abstracts (og evt. papers) færdig af de studerende selv med hjælp fra vejledere og med-studerende. I forårssemesteret præsenteres de studerende for materiale om skrivning af papers, bud på "den gode tekst", og eksempler på optagne papers. Derefter udarbejdes full papers, som præsenteres på de efterfølgende to sessioner. Disse efterligner i formen en egentlig konference, og man fremlægger således for hele gruppen. På forhånd er udnævnt to discussants, og underviserne fungerer som convenors. Hvert paper diskuteres i en halv time. Således efterlignes konferenceformen, samtidig med at de studerende for feed-back på deres papers. Denne bruges til færdigskrivning af paper før indsendelse til konference. Ph.d. stipendiater, der tidligere har fulgt kurset er også velkomne i år. Det er en forudsætning for kursusdeltagelse, at deltagerne bidrager med abstracts og papers til de aftalte tidspunkter. Further information: Pia Schjødt Brylov: psb.ioa@cbs.dk
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Grundlæggende statistik, lineær regression og faktoranalyse
From: 2006/09/30 To: 2006/10/03 Registration Deadline: 2006/09/15Lecturers: Post.doc., Ph.d. Rune Stubager (statskundskab, Århus) m. fl.
Responsible: Rune Stubager (stubager@ps.au.dk) - Forskerskolen for Velfærd og forskellighed
Formål: Kurset sigter mod at give grundlæggende færdigheder i gennemførelsen af regressionsanalyser samt faktoranalyser. Som grundlag herfor gives en basal indføring i sandsynlighedsteoretisk baseret statistisk analyse. Målgruppe: Kurset retter sig primært mod ph.d.-studerende med et grundlæggende kendskab til beskrivende statistik, samt grundfærdigheder i anvendelsen af SPSS og Excel men kan også være nyttigt for studerende, der tidligere har arbejdet med regressionsanalyser, men som har brug for en genopfriskning af færdighederne. Indhold: Kurset afholdes over 5 dage. Hver dag indledes med en forelæsning på 2 timer, hvorefter 2 timer er afsat til øvelser, mens 1-2 timer afsluttende anvendes til opsummering og eventuel præsentation og diskussion af deltagernes egne analyser og/eller problemstillinger, som disse relaterer sig til kursets indhold. Programmet for denne del af kurset tilpasses efter deltagernes ønsker og forudsætninger - herunder ønsker om at præsentere arbejdspapirer med egne analyser med henblik på diskussion af de metodiske aspekter. Sådanne præsentationer aftales på forhånd med kursets underviser (stubager@ps.au.dk). ECTS: Der tildeles 5 ECTS for kurset hvis der afleveres et paper, ellers 4. Further information: Tilmelding: Mette Sørensen (mettsoe@ruc.dk); Mere information: Rune Stubager (stubager@ps.au.dk)
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Perspektiver i organisationsanalyse (Only in Danish)
From: 2006/10/02 To: 2006/10/06 Registration Deadline: 2006/09/01Lecturers: Professor Jan Molin; Professor Kristian Kreiner; <br> Professor Jesper Strandgaard; Professor Ann Westenholz m.fl.
Responsible: professor Jan Molin, CBS
Det er ambitionen at klæde den phd-studerende på til bedre at kunne læse og forstå den måde organisering udfoldes i en konkret virksomhedspraksis. Med en levende forståelse af den brede vifte af processer, der traditionelt er blevet taget alvorligt i virksomhedens egen-organisering er det kursets formål, at gøre de phd.-studerende til 'refleksive praktikere'.
Hvis kompetencemålet er at skabe refleksive praktikere må kurset på den ene side tilbyde et forståelsesperspektiv, der gør det muligt at 'se' noget andet og nyt i det empiriske arbejde..og på den anden side sikre, at denne forståelse netop tager afsæt i oplevelser af og viden om den konkrete projektvirkelighed.
Kurset fokuserer især på de seneste 50 års organisationsteori oger især rettet mod studerende der ikke i øvrigt har arbejdet med eller undervist i organisationsteori eller beslægtede fagfelter.
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Advanced Theories of the Policy Process and Strategies for their Application 2006
From: 2006/10/04 To: 2006/10/11 Registration Deadline: 2006/09/15Lecturers: Professor Paul Sabatier, lektor and Ph.D. Morten Balle Hansen and researchprofessor Søren Winter.
Responsible: Professor Paul Sabatier, University of California, Associte Professor Morten Balle Hansen, University of Southern Denmark and Søren Winter The Danish National Institute of Social Research
The history of Policy Analysis; The current theory and practice of Policy Analysis; The Need for Theory and Multiple Theories; Criteria for Comparing and Evaluating Theories; Frameworks, Theories and Models; The Stages Approach in Policy Analysis; Institutional theories and their application in the analysis of the Policy Process; Top-down and Bottom-up Approaches to Analyzing the Policy Process; The Advocacy Coalition Framework and its Application in the Analysis of the Policy Process; Multiple Streams Theory; Social Constructionist Theory; Cultural Theory; Innovation and Diffusion Models in Policy Research; Theories of Implementation; Theories of Evaluation. We will examine the above topics in some depth and adapt the exact priority of the topics to the Ph.D. students who participate in the seminar. Since Paul Sabatier is one of the founding fathers of the Advocacy Coalition Framework we will provide an in depth examination of this approach to Policy Analysis. Further information: sek@polforsk.dk
Read more: http://polforsk.dk/course_full_view?nn=1103Network Governance: between efficiency and democracy
From: 2006/10/09 To: 2006/10/13 Registration Deadline: 2006/09/01Lecturers: Dr. Erik-Hans Klijn (Erasmus University of Rotterdam), professors Chris Skelcher (University of Birmingham), and professor Eva Sørensen and professor Jacob Torfing (University of Roskilde)
Responsible: Dr. Erik-Hans Klijn (Erasmus University of Rotterdam), professors Chris Skelcher (University of Birmingham), and professor Eva Sørensen and professor Jacob Torfing (University of Roskilde) and The Danish Political Science Research School
Transformations in state and society have increased the importance of networks in formulating, determining and implementing public policy. These networks engage public, private and civil society actors at trans-national, national, regional and local scales in shaping the future of our societies. They are a means through which the governance of society is undertaken. Research into governance networks is developing rapidly. It is offering important opportunities for theoretical and methodological development, and for the generation of new knowledge with both academic and policy relevance. National and local differences demonstrate the need for theoretically and methodologically-sound comparative research. Further information: sek@polforsk.dk
Read more: http://polforsk.dk/course_full_view?nn=758Critical Organization Studies:Conceptualizing Movement, Process and Organizing with Robert Cooper
From: 2006/10/09 To: 2006/10/11 Registration Deadline: 2020/06/08Lecturers: Professor Robert Cooper, Centre for Culture, Social Theory and Technology, University of Keele, Associate Professor Bent Meier Sørensen, Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, CBS, Associate Professor Pia Bramming, Department of Organization &
Responsible: PhD Fellow Anders Bojesen, ab.ioa@cbs.dk
The purpose of the seminar is to examine the scope of current studies in critical management and organization, focusing on the conceptualization of movement, process and organizing in the works of Robert Cooper. Since the publication of 'The Open Field' (1976) in Human Relations, Robert Cooper has proven to be one of the most persistent voices advocating new conceptualizations and studies of organizing that connect to empirical expressions of the innate human compulsion to seek the open and unknown, the vague and indeterminate (Cooper; 2001). In doing this we must expand and transgress the boundaries of social science not just deconstructing the structure/process image of thought, but also affirming what could become of 'organization' and 'human' as particular planes of existence and production. Further information: ab.ioa@cbs.dk
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Everyday Politics and Economic Globalisations
From: 2006/10/17 To: 2006/10/20 Registration Deadline: 2006/08/15Lecturers:
Responsible: Leonard Seabrooke
Our everyday actions can influence economic globalization. How, what, and with whom we spend, save, invest, buy, and produce in our ordinary lives shapes markets and how states choose to intervene in them. The political, economic, and social networks with which we associate ourselves provide us not only with meaning about how we think economic policy is made, but also constitute vehicles for how economic policy, both at home and abroad, should be constructed. And while elite actors in politics and economics obviously have more direct influence, this should not obscure the point that peripheral actors can influence how power is exercised. Such actions, when accumulated, have an important influence on economic globalization. Further information: ls.cbp@cbp.dk
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Knowledge Management: Concepts and challenges to management
From: 2006/10/23 To: 2006/10/27 Registration Deadline: 2006/10/01Lecturers: Professor Mette Mønsted (CBS), Professor Hans Siggaard Jensen (Learning Lab Denmark), Associate Professor Peter Holdt Christensen (CBS), Professor Stephen Gourlay (London)
Responsible: Professor Mette Mønsted
The knowledge management course will focus on the concept of knowledge and organization, and specifically the relationship between knowledge management, research- and innovation management and how the knowledge management perspective is contributing to the understanding of management in the knowledge society. The course will stress the epistemology of the concept of knowledge, and the consequences of new organisation of knowledge especially for knowledge creation and communication and how to address the research on these issues. In relation to the research and innovation perspectives the boundary of knowledge opens the perspective of management of knowledge under high-level of uncertainty and complexity. The Knowledge management course is covering 3 themes within knowledge management: The concept of knowledge as related to Knowledge Management, Management in a knowledge perspective, creation of knowledge, research and innovation and all related to method reflections. The practice of Knowledge Management research is not the traditional knowledge management, but is providing a course with a critical perspective on some of the traditional models. The form of the seminar is a combination of lectures, and discussions with the invited professors, who will join for several days of the course, creating a form of "summer-school". Further information: roe.lpf@cbs.dk
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Security Theory - Critical Innovations 2006
From: 2006/11/27 To: 2006/12/01 Registration Deadline: 2006/10/27Lecturers: Professor Ole Wæver, Department of Political Science, Copenhagen University
Responsible: Professor Ole Wæver, Department of Political Science, Copenhagen University
Recently, a number of theories or research programmes - often called "schools"- have emerged within European security studies. Although security studies is usually seen as a sub-field within International Relations (IR), these schools have not been manifestations of the main theories as defined by the over-arching landscape or "grand debates" of the discipline at large. Nor have they generally been copied from the US. In a discipline (IR) and a sub-discipline (security studies) used to American "leadership", this sudden fertility of European soil has been a surprise. The debate within, among and across these "schools" has regularly been characterised as extraordinarily fruitful. The course will cover Critical Security Studies (Booth, Krause, Williams), feminist security studies (Tickner, Enloe, Hansen), Bourdieu-inspired analyses of the security field and its practices of surveillance and routinisation (Bigo, Huysmans, Aradau), "hard core" post-structuralists (Der Derian, Constantinou, Dillon) and the so-called Copenhagen School (Buzan, Wæver, de Wilde). Only indirectly, will the course cover (and briefly introduce to) recent theories and debates within the mainstream and mostly in the US: the intra-realist debates on offensive and defensive realism, "mainstream constructivism" and the relationship between power and legitimacy in the construction of empire (order).
This PhD course will investigate these European theories, place them in the context of security studies as a field, and compare to developments elsewhere (US, third world), but mostly look at these new theories as theories: expose them to internal and external critique, assess their strengths and weaknesses and not least discuss how to operationalise them as tools for concrete and innovative empirical investigations.
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Formal and informal work
From: 2006/11/28 To: 2006/11/29 Registration Deadline: 2006/11/08Lecturers: Professor, Birgit Pfau-Effinger, Hamburg University Professor, Lluís Flaquer, University of Barcelona Professor, Per H. Jensen, Aalborg University
Responsible: Prof. Per H. Jensen, 96364604
Formal and informal work. The changing relationship between formal and informal work and the impact of such changes on social integration and new forms of work-life balances. In the debate about the future of work it is common to focus on processes of change within formal employment. It is, however, not possible to explain the future of work only with the development of formal employment. Instead, it is important to include different kinds of informal work, the interrelation of informal work with formal employment, and the dynamics in this relationship. It should be considered that besides formal employment, informal work in modern society has always played an important function for social integration. Voluntary work and unpaid care work of women in the household, for instance, contributed and still contribute substantially to the production of welfare in many European countries. In countries , mainly in Southern European societies, where the formal economy was or is not able to provide goods and services according to the social demand, individuals by their activities in the "black economy" can contribute to improve their life situation and that of their families. By contrast, in the Scandinavian countries where care work to a large extent has been formalised and women has entered the formal labour market, social integration has been threatened which calls for new forms of work-life balances. Given the diversity of institutional and cultural contexts the aim of this course is to contribute to a conceptual clarification of different development paths of formal and informal work in European societies. For further information please mailto: Susanne Lindved Kristensen, slk@ruc.dk Further information: Susanne Lindved Kristensen, slk@ruc.dk
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From: 2006/12/04 To: 2006/12/08 Registration Deadline: 2006/05/15Lecturers:
Responsible: Lars Bo Kaspersen
Kurset sigter på at belyse nogle af den politiske økonomis, politiske sociologis og den politiske teoris grundbegreber i et teorihistorisk og begrebshistorisk perspektiv. Særlig centralt står begreberne stat, samfund, marked, politik, økonomi og magt. Begrebshistorien tager sit udgangspunkt i Aristoteles' to bøger om etik og politik. Begreberne oikos og polis bliver hermed omdrejningspunktet for den videre teorihistoriske rejse frem mod vor tids store tænkere Habermas, Foucault og Luhmann. Undervejs læses tekster af Machiavelli, Hobbes, Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, Weber, Durkheim. Målet er at demonstrere, hvordan begreberne transformeres semantisk og indholdsmæssigt i takt med sociale og politiske forandringer op igennem den europæiske historie. Derfor vil begrebshistorien suppleres med social- og politisk historie for derved at give deltagerne et større overblik over udviklingen. Further information: lbk.cbp@cbs.dk
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European Economic Integration: Changing Patterns of Governance
From: 2006/12/04 To: 2006/12/08 Registration Deadline: 2006/10/01Lecturers:
Responsible: Peter Nedergaard
The course will give the students insights into new forms of governance of economic integration in the European Union. These new insights cover new theories and methodologies as well as new emperical studies.
The focus of the cource is sectoral economic integration of the European Union. An additional focus is on the impact of European economic integration on business, consumers, and citizens.
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