Course Catalog 2013-2014
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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
            TTA-78026 2013-01  

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:

Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

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

Course Corresponds course  Description 
TTA-78026 Doctoral Course on Service Business Development, 5 cr TETA-9036 Doctoral Course on Service Business Development, 5 cr  

More precise information per implementation

Implementation Description Methods of instruction Implementation
TTA-78026 2013-01 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.        

Last modified13.03.2013