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The course is taught using a combination of lectures, class discussions, and presentations. The course focuses on the foundations of research in international management, including foundations of research in social sciences, quantitative, and qualitative methods.
Teaching techniques in this section include lectures, short tasks (both individual and team) and group discussions. Moreover, students read, present, discuss and evaluate recent publications in the field of international management. Specifically, students will take over the role of a presenting researcher, the member of an editorial board, a reviewer, and a minute writer during the course. Researchers present a scientific publication as if they were the authors. The editorial board searches for good publications and tries to evaluate both the strengths and the weaknesses of the publication. The minute-taking group provides an overview of the presentation, the feedback of the editorial board, and the discussion. The review is an individual assignment and has to be handed in after the course ends (exact deadline will be provided in class). The reviewers summarize the content of the publication and discuss its quality based on the criteria of scientific research learned in class. Finally, they provide ideas on how to further increase the quality of the publication.
Most courses in the CEMS program are based on recent findings of scientific research in international management. Within the course “Research in International Management” students will learn about the different approaches of research in this field both from a theoretical as well as from an applied perspective.
The aims of the course are:
• to introduce students to the general principles of research in international management.
• to increase students' understanding of scientific publications in the field of international management.
• to help students develop and write a good master thesis in the field of international management.
• to learn to work together as a team.
• different approaches to research in the field of international management.
• how to conduct research in the field of international management.
• how to assess the quality of research in the field of international management.
• how plan, structure, and evaluate a master thesis in the field of international management.
Knowledge & Understanding
After completing this course students will have:
• knowledge and understanding of inductive research methods.
• knowledge and understanding of deductive research methods.
• understanding of basic statistical methods and tools.
Cognitive & Subject Specific Skills
Students on completion of the course will have:
• the ability to structure a scientific study (e.g., master thesis) in the field of international management.
• the know how to obtain and analyze information which will help to develop a good scientific publication (e.g., master thesis).
• the ability to analyze the quality of scientific work.
Key Skills
Students on completion of the course will have:
• the ability to structure ideas, presentations, and written work both as individuals and as members of a team.
• the ability to shift material efficiently and to structure it into a coherent argument.
• the ability to research material related to specific international management topics under pressure of tight deadlines.
• organizational abilities in relation to teamwork including presentation and report writing skills.
Students will be assessed on:
• the quality of their individual participation in class.
• the quality of the presentations and the written reviews/reports; by quality in this context we mean the clarity and persuasiveness of each bit of work. This implies an ability to work in teams.
The grades are composed of the following elements
- Interactive presentation (30%)
- Participation (15%)
- Role of editorial board (15%)
- Post course assignment (15%)
- Quantitative exercise (10%)
- Peer rating (10%)
- Minutes of interactive presentation session (5%)
The University will retain a copy of all coursework for Teaching Quality Assessment as part of the on-going quality assessment program. It is important, therefore, that students make a second copy for their own purposes.
For the first session. students are expected to have read the following article:
Roth, Kendall, and Tatiana Kostova. "The use of the multinational corporation as a research context." Journal of management 29.6 (2003): 883-902.
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