Course Catalog 2013-2014
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Course Catalog 2013-2014

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

Additional information

Suitable for postgraduate studies

Person responsible

Tomi Nokelainen

Lessons

Study type P1 P2 P3 P4 Summer Implementations Lecture times and places
Lectures
Seminar


 


 


 
 2 h/per
 12 h/per


 
TTA-65056 2013-01 Monday 14 - 16, K4108

Requirements

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

Principles and baselines related to teaching and learning

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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:

Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Prerequisites

Course Mandatory/Advisable Description
TTA-62036 Strategic Management Mandatory    
TTA-65046 Case Course on Strategic Management Mandatory    

Prerequisite relations (Requires logging in to POP)



Correspondence of content

Course Corresponds course  Description 
TTA-65056 Theory and Practice of Strategic Thinking, 4 cr TETA-5620 Theory and Practice of Strategic Thinking, 4 cr  

More precise information per implementation

Implementation Description Methods of instruction Implementation
TTA-65056 2013-01 The implementation of "TTA-65056 Theory and practice of strategic thinking" for the academic year 2013-2014.       Contact teaching: 0 %
Distance learning: 0 %
Self-directed learning: 0 %  

Last modified21.02.2013