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Course Catalog 2014-2015
TTA-65056 Theory and Practice of Strategic Thinking, 4 cr |
Additional information
Suitable for postgraduate studies
Person responsible
Aija Paananen
Lessons
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Requirements
Completed written seminar reports and attendance in seminar sessions.
Completion parts must belong to the same implementation
Learning Outcomes
With regard to theory, the student knows the central theoretical schools of thought, and their theoretical perspectives in strategic management scholarship, and their core points of agreement and disagreement. With regard to practice, the student can interpret and explain how and why companies do what they actually do (and why they don't do something else instead) from different theoretical points of view.
Content
| Content | Core content | Complementary knowledge | Specialist knowledge |
| 1. | The central schools of thought in strategic management scholarship. | The critique presented for each school of thought. | The central proponents of each school of thought. |
| 2. | The central theoretical perspectives in strategic management scholarship. | The critique presented for each theoretical perspective. | The central proponents of each theoretical perspective. |
| 3. | The points of agreement and disagreement among different schools of thought and theoretical perspectives. | The practical implications stemming from the points of agreement and disagreement among different schools of thought and theoretical perspectives. | |
| 4. | Applying different schools of thought and theoretical perspectives for understanding, explaining, and interpreting actual corporate strategic behavior. | ||
| 5. | Seminar working, critical thinking, argumentation and scientific writing. |
Instructions for students on how to achieve the learning outcomes
Each written seminar report and argumentation in seminar sessions is graded. These together produce the final grade of the course.
Assessment scale:
Numerical evaluation scale (1-5) will be used on the course
Partial passing:
Prerequisites
| Course | Mandatory/Advisable | Description |
| TTA-62036 Strategic Management | Mandatory | |
| TTA-65046 Case Course on Strategic Management | Mandatory |
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Correspondence of content
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More precise information per implementation
| Implementation | Description | Methods of instruction | Implementation |
| The implementation of "TTA-65056 Theory and practice of strategic thinking" for the academic year 2014-2015. |
Contact teaching: 0 % Distance learning: 0 % Self-directed learning: 0 % |