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While the School endeavors to offer as many of the courses as possible, not all courses are offered every semester. It is important to check with individual departments prior to scheduling classes to determine the availability of courses for any given semester. All listed courses represent 1.0 credit units unless otherwise indicated.

MGMT 900 Economic Foundation of Research in Management
This seminar explores the foundation questions of the strategy field-the questions that keep reappearing in ever-changing guises when specific strategic issues are confronted in a variety of contexts. There are substantial social science literatures dealing with most of these questions. The major purpose of the seminar is to expose students to samples of these literatures and to point out their relevance to strategy. The contributions of economic thinking to the strategy field receive disproportionate attention, but not to the point where they crowd other disciplines or strategy itself off the stage.

MGMT 918 Seminar in Human Resource Management
This course will focus on contemporary research on employment issues as it relates to theories in organizational studies, sociology, and labor economics. The course analyzes these issues from both the individual and firm level of analysis.

MGMT 925 Research Seminar in Corporate Strategy
The seminar is built around published empirical research in corporate strategy. Articles for discussion will be drawn from journals in several fields, including economics, the behavioral sciences, management science, business administration, and elsewhere. Students will take turns leading the seminar discussion (with the help of the instructor). Each week each student will turn in a two- to three-page "critique" of each article. Each student will present a book report to the class during the semester—15 minutes oral and four or five pages written.

MGMT 932 Pro-Seminar in Management
See the Department website for a current description of the course content, which varies each year. Recent offerings have included Qualitative Methods and Entrepreneurship.

MGMT 933 Psychological and Sociological Foundations of Research in Management
Management 933 provides students with discipline-based foundations of theory and research. Specifically, this course explores the intellectual history of psychology and sociology in management beginning in the early 1900s to the 1970's. Topics include: the social context of individual behavior, motivation and job satisfaction, organizational context and bureaupathology, industrial and organizational selection, training and development.

MGMT 935 Network Theory & Applications (0.5 cu)
This course explores network analysis models and their applications to organizational phenomena. By examining the structure of relations among actors, network approaches seek to explain variations in beliefs, behaviors, and outcomes. The beauty of network analysis is its underlying mathematical nature-network ideas and measures apply equally well at micro and macro levels of analysis. In this course, then, we will read and discuss articles both at the micro level (where the network actors are individuals within organizations) and at the macro level (where the network actors are organizations within larger communities) that utilize network constructs such as cohesion, structural equivalence, centrality, autonomy, and cliques. There may also be demonstrations of network software to assist you with empirical analyses.

MGMT 937 Entrepreneurship (0.5 cu)
The seminar seeks to expose students to theoretical and empirical perspectives on entrepreneurship research. We will focus on the main questions that define the field and attempt to critically examine how, using a range of methodologies, researchers have approached these questions. As we review the literature, we will seek to identify promising research areas in Entrepreneurship. In addition to addressing the content of the received literature, we will examine the process of crafting research papers in Entrepreneurship and getting them published in top tier journals. Towards that end we will characterize the key elements of high impact papers and review the development process of such studies.

MGMT 938 Family Business Research (0.5 cu)
Family firms differ in a number of ways from non-family firms. These differences may result in differential behavior by, and performance of, family firms versus non-family firms. Although family-controlled firms make up the vast majority of businesses around the world, academic research in this space is sparse. The seminar seeks to expose students to theoretical and empirical perspectives on family businesses. Throughout the course, we will focus on the ownership, control, and management issues that set family firms apart. We will focus on the main issues faced by families and their firms, and attempt to critically examine how, using a range of methodologies, researchers have approached these issues. As we review the literature, we will seek to identify promising research areas.

MGMT 951 Seminar in Micro-Organizational Behavior (0.5 cu)
This one half semester course is a research seminar about micro and meso theories of organizational behavior. We examine theoretical propositions of individual and group behavior in organizations as well as discussing and critically evaluating empirical studies based on these theories. Sample topics include the person versus situation debate, motivation, commitment, organizational citizenship, group dynamics, leadership, organizational culture and socialization. We will also discuss the state of the field as a whole.

MGMT 952 Seminar in Macro-Organizational Behavior
A critical review and analysis of contemporary theory and research on complex organization structure, process, and performance. Weekly faculty and student presentations and discussions will include detailed treatments of organization design, change, and reorganization, as well as inter-organizational relationships. Opportunities are provided to develop diagnostic and research skills in specialized topics the student may select.

MGMT 953 Research Methods
This seminar introduces the doctoral student to the ways and means of doing research and delivering it in the form of papers and/or monographs. The course offers an overview of theory development, the logic of research, the relationship between theoretical and empirical constructs, a wide variety of specific research methodologies, and the scholarly publication process.

MGMT 955 Seminar in International Management
An introduction to the literature of international management. The course will deal with topics such as the theory of the international firm, global competition, organizing for global operations, market entry, innovation, and comparative management. It serves both as an introduction to international management for all doctoral students and as a foundation for more advanced work in the field.

MGMT 957: Seminar in Emotions in Organizations (0.5 cu)
The purpose of this one half semester elective is to first explore and understand the construct of affect -- trait affect, moods and emotions -- as well as the variety of affective models (e.g. dimensional, discrete and implicit affect). We then examine the specific influence of affect on human behavior and outcomes within organizations. This can include topics such as the influence of affect on satisfaction, performance, commitment, group dynamics and stress, as well as affective constructs such as emotional intelligence, emotional contagion, emotional labor, affective diversity and affective culture. There is no prerequisite for the course, and doctoral students from fields outside of management are welcome.

MGMT 999 Independent Study
In-depth independent study in an area of special interest to the student, to be arranged with a faculty member in that field.