MGT7110: Seminar in Organizational Theory

Doctoral level course focusing on theoretical and pragmatic topics related to organizational theory. Topics include organizational design, strategy, environment, structure, process, people, coordination, context, partnerships, and diagnosis. Students will be exposed to literature reviews of weekly topics and will discuss how to develop appropriate literature reviews for peer reviewed journals. Research paradigms at the organizational level of analysis will be explored. Students will develop a research proposal up to the point of data collection and will discuss how they would collect and analyze the data. This course will incorporate research concepts being covered in the first research methods course and first statistics for research methods course. Students will also develop resources to be used in teaching the course topics.