Graduate Program of China Center for Economic Research at

Peking University
 
Foundations of Strategic Management
Spring 2006
Professor Hao Ma
 
 
Class:   Thursday 2PM-5PM                                    Phone: 6275 6573
Room:    Small Classroom, CCER                               Email: hma@ccer.pku.edu.cn
Office Hours: Before or after classes or by appointments
Course Description

This course offers a comprehensive survey of contemporary strategic management literature, covering those milestone classics, fundamental research topics, as well as major theoretical perspectives. It addresses both strategy content and process issues and reviews both conceptual works and empirical studies.

The course is intended primarily for doctoral students or advanced master’s students who expect to conduct research in strategic management or related areas (e.g., organizational behavior, marketing strategy, corporate finance, industrial organization, sociology of organizations, organization theory, or complex decision making).

Each week we will examine a major topic in strategic management. Our approach will typically involve reading the seminal works (or recent summaries or syntheses) on the topic and examining in depth three or four articles. Further readings are suggested for interested students to explore the topic in more depth.

Course Requirements

This course is organized as a seminar, which means that each and every student is required to read, prepare, present, and discuss the required readings.  The students should be able to intelligently critique the articles assigned, to find potential linkages among the different articles, discover possible patterns emerged from a set of readings, or identify theoretical gaps as well as methodological deficiencies in the readings. Class participation and contribution are an important and indispensable part of the course for each student. It counts for 50% of a student’s final course grade.

At the end of the semester, each student will write a fully-developed research proposal dealing with a topic in the strategy field, and present it to the full class in the last class period. The proposal is expected to include 1) conceptual background, 2) theory development and hypotheses, and 3) methodology. The proposal should clearly specify the potential contribution it makes to the literature. The research proposal and its presentation account for 50% of a student’s final course grade.

（更多内容见附件） 6148-1.doc