| Course Name | Theory in Management and Organization |
| Code | Semester | Theory (hour/week) | Application/Lab (hour/week) | Local Credits | ECTS |
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| BA 601 | Fall/Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 |
| Prerequisites | None | |||||
| Course Language | English | |||||
| Course Type | Elective | |||||
| Course Level | Third Cycle | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | Online | |||||
| Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course | DiscussionGroup WorkProblem SolvingCase StudyQ&ACritical feedbackLecturing / Presentation | |||||
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| Course Objectives | This course aims at equipping students with advanced knowledge of theoretical and methodological debates in the field of organization theory. Moreover, it provides students with the skills and capabilities to explain organizational issues within their national and global contexts. |
| Learning Outcomes | The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Description | This course overviews the major organizational perspectives together with their philosophical foundations, historical evolutions, and core arguments. It mainly includes structural contingency, resource dependence, organizational economics, organizational ecology, new institutionalism, historical institutionalism, network, and complexity theories, and interpretive, critical and postmodern organizational studies. The course also provides a comparative institutional perspective by which course participants are able to evaluate societal and historical dependencies of different organizational theories. |
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| Major Area Courses | X | |
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| Media and Managment Skills Courses | ||
| Transferable Skill Courses |
| Week | Subjects | Required Materials |
| 1 | Introduction to the course | |
| 2 | Perspectives in Organization studies | Astley, W. G., and Van de Ven, A. H. 1983. Central Perspectives and debates in organization theory. Administrative Science Quarterly, 28: 245-273. Barley, S.R., and Kunda, G. 1992. Design and devotion: Surges in rational and normative ideologies of control in managerial discourse. Administrative Science Quarterly, 37: 363-399. Fligstein, Neil. 2021. Organizations: Theoretical Debates and the Scope of Organizational Theory in S. Abrutyn, O. Lizardo (Eds.), Handbook of Classical Sociological Theory, Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research. Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 487-506. Davis, G. F. 2017. Organization theory and the dilemmas of a post-corporate economy. Research in the Sociology of Organizations 48B: 311-322. |
| 3 | History and geography of organization studies | Shenhav, Yehouda. 2003. The Historical and Epistemological Foundations of Organization Theory: Fusing sociological theory with engineering discourse. in Tsoukas, Haridimos, George D. Mavros and Christian Knudsen (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Organization Theory Oxford University Press. Baum, J. A. C. 2011. European and North American approaches to organizations and strategy research: An Atlantic divide? Not, Organization Science, 22(6): 1663-1679. Üsdiken, B. 2014. Centres and Peripheries: Research Styles and Publication Patterns in ‘Top’ US Journals and their European Alternatives, 1960–2010. Journal of Management Studies, 51:5, 764-789. Üsdiken, B., and Leblebici, H. 2002. Organization theory. N. Anderson et al. (eds) Handbook of industrial, work and organizational psyschology, Newbury Park: Sage, 377-397. |
| 4 | Structural contingency theory | Donaldson, L. 1999. The normal science of structural contingency theory. S. Clegg and C. Hardy (eds) Studying Organization: Theory and Method, London: Sage, 51-70. Schoonhoven, C. B. 1981. Problems with contingency theory: Testing assumptions hidden within the language of contingency theory. Administrative Science Quarterly. 26: 349-377. Karim, S., Carroll, T. N., and Long, C. P. 2016. Delaying Change: Examining How Industry and Managerial Turbulence Impact Structural Realignment. Academy of Management Journal, 59 (3) 791-817. Morton, N.A., and Hu, Q. 2008. Implications of the fit between organization structure and ERP: A structural contingency perspective. International Journal of Information Management 28, 391–402 |
| 5 | Resource dependence theory | Pfeffer, J., and Salancik, S. R. 1978. The external control of organizations. Harper and Row, Chp. 1-3. Hillman, A. J., Withers, M., and Collins, B. J. 2009. Resource dependence theory: a review. Journal of Management. DOI: 10.1177/0149206309343469. Cowen, A., and Marcel, J. J. 2011. Damaged goods: Board decisions to dismiss reputationally compromised directors. Academy of Management Journal, 54 (3) 509-527. Casciaro, T., and Piskorski, M.J. Power imbalance, mutual dependence, and constraint absorption: A closer look at resource dependence theory. Administrative Science Quarterly, 50, 167–199 |
| 6 | Organizational economics | Barney, J., and Hesterly, W. 1999. Organizational economics: Understanding the relationship between organizations and economic analysis. S. Clegg, and C. Hardy, (eds) Studying Organizations: Theory & Method, Second Edition. London: Sage,109-141. Eisenhardt, K. M. 1989. Agency theory: An assessment and review. Academy of Management Review. 14: 57-74. Argyres, N., and Mostafa, R. 2016. Knowledge Inheritance, Vertical Integration, and Entrant Survival in the Early U.S. Auto Industry. Academy of Management Journal, 59 (4) 1474-1492. Nyberg, A.T., Fulmer, I.S., and Gerhart, B. 2010. Agency theory revisited: CEO return and shareholder interest alignment. Academy of Management Journal, 53(5) 1029-1049. |
| 7 | Organizational ecology | Hannan, M., and Freeman, J. 1977. The population ecology of organizations. American Journal of Sociology, 82: 929-964. Baum, Joel A. C. 1999. Organization Ecology. S. Clegg, and C. Hardy, (eds) Studying Organizations: Theory & Method, Second Edition. London: Sage, 71-108. Navis, Chad, and Mary Ann Glynn. 2010. How New Market Categories Emerge: Temporal Dynamics of Legitimacy, Identity, and Entrepreneurship in Satellite Radio, 1990-2005. Administrative Science Quarterly 55 (3): 439–71. Kieran O’Connor, Glenn Carroll, Balazs Kovacs (2017) Disambiguating authenticity: Testing for patterned choice among authentic items. PLOS One 12(6): e0179187. |
| 8 | New institutionalism: Diffusion, Legitimacy and Institutionalization | DiMaggio, P. J., and Powell, W. W. 1983. Iron cage revisited: Institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields. American Sociological Review, 48: 147-160. Naumovska, I., and Greve, H.R. 2021. The diffusion of differences: A review and reorientation of 20 years of diffusion research. Academy of Management Annals, 15(2) 377-405. Suddaby, R. & Greenwood, R. 2005 Rhetorical strategies of legitimacy. Administrative Science Quarterly, 50: 35-67. Kennedy, M. T., and Fiss, P. C. (2009). Institutionalization, framing, and the logic of TQM adoption and implementation decisions among U.S. hospitals. Academy of Management Journal, 52, 897–918. |
| 9 | New institutionalism: Institutional Change, Logics, Work, and Complexity | Seo, M-G. & Creed, W.E.D. 2002. Institutional contradictions, praxis and institutional change: A dialectical perspective. Academy of Management Review, 27: 222-247. Thornton, P. H., Ocasio, W., and Lounsbury, M. 2012. The Institutional Logics Perspective: A New Approach to Culture, Structure and Process. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (pp.1-49). Lawrence, Thomas B., Leca, Bernard and Zilber, Tammar B. 2013 Institutional Work: Current Research, New Directions and Overlooked Issues. Organization Studies 34: 1023-1033. Greenwood, Royston, Raynard, Mia, Kodeih, Farah, Micelotta, Evelyn R. & Lounsbury, Michael (2011) Institutional Complexity and Organizational Responses, The Academy of Management Annals, 5:1, 317-371. Delmestri, Giuseppe and Greenwood, Royston. 2016. How Cinderella Became a Queen: Theorizing Radical Status Change. Administrative Science Quarterly 1–44. Yan, S., Ferraro, F., & Almandoz, J. 2019. The rise of socially responsible investment funds: The paradoxical role of the financial logic. Administrative Science Quarterly, 64(2), 466–501. |
| 10 | Comparative institutionalism | Whitley, R. 2000. Divergent capitalisms: The social structuring and change of business systems. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 31-64. Djelic, M-L., 2010. Chapter 1: Instutional perspectives: Working towards coherence or irriconcilable diversity? In G. Morgan, J. L. Campbell, C. Crouch, O. K. Pedersen, and R. Whitley. The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Institutional Analysis, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 15-40. Özen, Şükrü, and Akkemik, K. Ali. 2012. Does Illegitimate Corporate Behavior Follow the Forms of Polity? The Turkish Experience, Journal of Management Studies 49 (3) 515-537. Schrage, S., and Rasche, A. 2021. Inter-Organizational Paradox Management: How national business systems affect responses to paradox along a global value chain. Organization Studies, 1-25. |
| 11 | Interpretativist studies | Hatch, M.J. & Yanow, D. 2003. Organization theory as an interpretive science. In H. Tsoukas & C. Knudsen (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Organization Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Leitch, Claire M., Hill, Frances M., Harrison, Richard T. 2010. The Philosophy and Practice of Interpretivist Research in Entrepreneurship. Quality, Validation, and Trust. Organizational Research Methods, 13 (1), 67-84 Weick, K.E. 1993. The collapse of sensemaking in organizations: The Mann Gulch disaster. Administrative Science Quarterly, 38: 628-652. Balogun, Julia, and Gerry Johnson. 2004. Organizational Restructuring and Middle Manager Sensemaking. The Academy of Management Journal 47 (4): 523–49. |
| 12 | Critical and postmodern studies | Alvesson, M. and Deetz, S. 1999. Critical theory and postmodernism approaches to organizational studies. S. Clegg, and C. Hardy (der.) Studying Organization: Teory & Method, Second Edition. London: Sage, 185-212. Wickert, Christopher, and Schaefer, Stephan M. 2015. Towards a progressive understanding of performativity in critical management studies. Human Relations published online 24 February 2014, DOI: 10.1177/0018726713519279 Parker, Martin. 2014. University, Ltd: Changing a business school. Organization. 21 (2) 281-292. Huber, Guy. 2022. Exercising power in autoethnographic vignettes to constitute critical knowledge. Organization.https://doi.org/10.1177%2F13505084221079006 |
| 13 | Embeddedness and Network studies | Granovetter, M. 1985. Economic action and social structure: The problem of embeddedness. American Journal of Sociology. 91: 481-510. Gulati, Ranjay, Dialdin, Dania A., and Wang Lihua. 2002. Organizational networks. Joel A. C. Baum (Der) The Blackwell Companion to Organizations. 281-303. Oxford: Blackwell. Tatarynowicz, Adam, Sytch, Maxim, and Gulati, Ranjay. 2015. Environmental Demands and the Emergence of Social Structure: Technological Dynamism and Interorganizational Network Forms. Administrative Science Quarterly, 1–35. Cattani, G., and Ferriani, S. 2008. A core/periphery perspective on individual creative performance: Social networks and cinematic achievements in the Hollywood film industry. Organization Science 19 (6):824–44. |
| 14 | Turkish Business Context and Management and Organization Studies | Üsdiken, B. 1996. Importing theories of management and organization: The case of Turkish academia. International Studies of Management and Organization, 26 (3) 33-46. Üsdiken, B. 2003. Plurality in institutional environments and educational content: The undergraduate business degree in Turkey. R. P. Amdam, R. Kvalshaugen, E. Larsen (Eds.) Inside the business schools: The content of European business education, 87-109. Abstrakt, Liber: Copenhagen Business School Press. Üsdiken, B., and Wasti, S.A. 2009. Preaching, Teaching and Researching at the Periphery: Academic Management Literature in Turkey, 1970-1999. Organization Studies. 30 (10): 1063-1082. Colpan, A. M. 2010. Business Groups in Turkey. In A. Colpan, T. Hikino, J. R. Lincoln (eds). The Oxford Handbook of Business Groups, pp. 486-525, Oxford University Press: Oxford |
| 15 | Review of the Semester | |
| 16 | Final Exam |
| Course Notes/Textbooks | All required course readings are listed in the “related preparation” part of the course outline. |
| Suggested Readings/Materials | Baum, Joel A. C. (Ed.) The Blackwell Companion to Organizations. Oxford: Blackwell. Burrell, G. and G. Morgan. 1979. Sociological paradigms and organizational analysis. London: Heinemann. Hatch, M. J. 1997. Organization theory: Modern, symbolic and postmodern perspectives. New York: Oxford University Pres. Haridimos Tsoukas and Christian Knudsen (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Organization Theory: Meta-Theoretical Perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Sargut, A. Selami, and Özen, Şükrü. (Eds.). 2015. Örgüt Kuramları. (2015 3. Ed) Ankara: İmge. Scott, W.R. 2003. Organizations: Rational, natural and open systems. 5. edition. Pearson Education. |
| Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
| Participation | ||
| Laboratory / Application | ||
| Field Work | ||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | ||
| Portfolio | ||
| Homework / Assignments | 1 | 20 |
| Presentation / Jury | 5 | 20 |
| Project | 1 | 20 |
| Seminar / Workshop | 1 | 10 |
| Oral Exam | ||
| Midterm | ||
| Final Exam | 1 | 30 |
| Total |
| Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 8 | 70 |
| Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 1 | 30 |
| Total |
| Semester Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | 3 | 48 |
| Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | ||
| Study Hours Out of Class | 14 | 4 | 56 |
| Field Work | |||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | |||
| Portfolio | |||
| Homework / Assignments | 5 | 4 | |
| Presentation / Jury | 5 | 5 | |
| Project | 1 | 20 | |
| Seminar / Workshop | 1 | 13 | |
| Oral Exam | |||
| Midterms | |||
| Final Exams | 1 | 30 | |
| Total | 212 |
| # | Program Competencies/Outcomes | * Contribution Level | ||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 1 | To be able to master existing theoretical knowledge in their specialized area of business administration. | X | ||||
| 2 | To be able to gain in-depth knowledge of research methodologies and design. | X | ||||
| 3 | To be able to acquire advanced knowledge of data collection and analysis techniques. | X | ||||
| 4 | To be able to design and conduct original research with a scholarly theoretical emphasis. | X | ||||
| 5 | To be able to disseminate scholarly knowledge in well-known academic networks. | X | ||||
| 6 | To be able to demonstrate the ability to communicate the results of their research in a clear and effective manner with various audiences. | X | ||||
| 7 | To be able to have concerns for the high ethical standards in research, and teaching. | X | ||||
| 8 | To be able to adopt critical attitude toward the extant literature and practice in the specialized area of business administration. | X | ||||
*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest
