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Course Catalog 2013-2014
TTA-78026 Doctoral Course on Service Business Development, 5 cr |
Additional information
Please contact professor Miia Martinsuo if you want to complete this course.
Suitable for postgraduate studies
Person responsible
Miia Martinsuo
Lessons
Study type | P1 | P2 | P3 | P4 | Summer | Implementations | Lecture times and places |
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Requirements
- Read the required articles and book excerpts, as shown in the reading list
- Complete the two individual assignments successfully
Completion parts must belong to the same implementation
Principles and baselines related to teaching and learning
The course consists of readings and two individual assignments. The list of readings covers essential research literature within the service business development research field. The students read materials assigned to them. Individual assignments are used to help doctoral students position their own thesis work within the research field, and evaluate the understanding of the student.
Learning Outcomes
The objective is to increase doctoral students’ knowledge about the entire research field and its theoretical and empirical foundations. Additionally, the objective is to develop doctoral students’ own positioning and argumentation within the field, and provoke critical and ambitious review work that would contribute directly to the doctoral students’ own research.
Instructions for students on how to achieve the learning outcomes
A scale of 0-5 is used in grading, and grades are based on the essay on thesis positioning (40%) and the essay on the selected service business development focus area (60%).
Assessment scale:
Numerical evaluation scale (1-5) will be used on the course
Partial passing:
Additional information about prerequisites
Prerequisites: Research methods in industrial management or equivalent, and a personal interest in service operations management or service business development.
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Correspondence of content
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More precise information per implementation
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The course offers doctoral students an overview of relevant research in service operations management and service business development. The objective is to increase doctoral students’ knowledge about the entire research field and its theoretical and empirical foundations. Additionally, the objective is to develop doctoral students’ own positioning and argumentation within the field, and provoke critical and ambitious review work that would contribute directly to the doctoral students’ own research. |