Strategic Management I

Course Description

This course is a doctoral seminar that is designed to give students an overview of the field of strategic management. Broadly speaking, research in strategy focuses (primarily) on explaining the economic conduct and performance of firms. An illustrative list of the issues addressed in strategy research includes identifying the profit potential of industries, exploring relationships between firm scale, scope and performance, and understanding the managerial and organizational determinants of firm- and business-level outcomes. The course draws upon theoretical perspectives from economics, sociology, organization theory, and psychology to supplement more traditional strategy approaches towards understanding firm performance and related issues. Many of the issues examined, such as firm diversification, industry structure, organizational and inter-organizational networks, are also common themes in other disciplines such as industrial organization economics, marketing, accounting, finance, and organizational and economic sociology. Accordingly, this course may be useful to students with research interests in these areas.

Code

MGMT 633

Credits

2

Subject

Management & Organizations