Catalog 2016-2017 
    
    Mar 29, 2024  
Catalog 2016-2017 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

BUS 8030 - Research in Strategy

(3 units)
This course will be a survey of the current state of strategic management research as well as considering a vision for the future. It will consider the conceptual and methodological challenges of adding to the knowledge in strategy research. It will delineate and evaluate the merits of different methodologies and how they relate to strategy research; methods such as social network approach, modeling limited dependent variables, longitudinal analysis, content analysis, qualitative methods in general, cognitive mapping, constructing survey research, selection of data for strategy research, and structural equation modeling methods. The course will provide a cumulative knowledge perspective on strategic management research and will include an assessment of research design. This course will be based on academic journal articles.