TTA-65066 Strategic Thinking, 5 cr

Additional information

Suitable for postgraduate studies

Person responsible

Saku Mäkinen

Lessons

Implementation 1: TTA-65066 2015-01

Study type P1 P2 P3 P4 Summer

Lectures
Seminar

2 h/per
16 h/per

Lecture times and places: Wednesday 8 - 10 F- PIENI SALI 1 , Wednesday 8 - 10 FC112

Requirements

Completed written seminar reports and attendance in seminar sessions.
Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Learning Outcomes

Note: The lecturer of the course, as well as the specific dates and times of the lectures will be updated to POP by the end of the year 2015. 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:

Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Prerequisites

Course Mandatory/Advisable Description

TTA-62036 Strategic Management Mandatory

Correspondence of content

Course Corresponds course Description

TTA-65066 Strategic Thinking, 5 cr TTA-65056 Theory and Practice of Strategic Thinking, 4 cr

Last modified 24.02.2016

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.

Course	Mandatory/Advisable	Description
TTA-62036 Strategic Management	Mandatory

Course	Corresponds course	Description
TTA-65066 Strategic Thinking, 5 cr	TTA-65056 Theory and Practice of Strategic Thinking, 4 cr