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Critical Perspectives on Management

IE Business School

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This course is designed for students of all backgrounds who have an interest in how firms are governed, the forces that have helped define modern management practice, and the outcomes of that practice not only for the firm itself, but also for the societies in which they operate. For students who are thinking of a career in management, it may also prove useful as a basic introduction to some of the conceptual vocabulary and ideas behind modern theories of management. 
Using a wide disciplinary approach - from economics and history to social theory and even a smattering of biblical criticism - the course will invite students to consider several core management strategies and priorities from often unexpected perspectives in order to judge their success or failure. The key objective of the course is to bring into critical focus how we think about the function and culture of management, how managers understand their role within a firm, how they take decisions, set priorities and benchmark success and failure. 

Topics include: the function of the firm; the role of incentive; the ways in which narrative forces shape decision making, and how market relationships define the managerial culture in ways that can lead to sub-optimal outcomes.

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Nivel principiante

Aprox. 17 horas para completar

Inglés (English)

¿Podría tu empresa beneficiarse de la capacitación de los empleados en las habilidades más demandadas?

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Fechas límite flexibles

Restablece las fechas límite en función de tus horarios.

Certificado para compartir

Obtén un certificado al finalizar

100 % en línea

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Laboratorios de Coursera

Incluye proyectos de aprendizaje prácticos.

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Nivel principiante

Aprox. 17 horas para completar

Inglés (English)

¿Podría tu empresa beneficiarse de la capacitación de los empleados en las habilidades más demandadas?

Prueba Coursera para negocios

Instructor

Calificación del instructor

5/5 (24 calificaciones)

Rolf Strom-Olsen

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IE Business School

IE Business School is an internationally recognized business school where the leaders of tomorrow shape their ideas and learn to become global citizens. For over 40 years, IE Business School has promoted innovation and change in organizations, equipping managers with an entrepreneurial mindset that generates employment, wealth, and social well-being.

Regularly featured among the top business schools in the world, IE Business School has an urban campus in Madrid and a faculty of more than 400 professors who teach students from approximately 90 countries in its undergraduate and master programs. IE uses innovative online, face-to-face, and blended learning formats, including the IE Communities Platform where knowledge and experiences are exchanged with over 50,000 IE graduates that currently hold management positions in more than 100 countries worldwide.

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Programa - Qué aprenderás en este curso

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Semana1

Semana 1

4 horas para completar

The Lessons from Rome Part I

In Ancient Rome, merchant organisations very similar to modern firms were critical to capitalising key markets and to solving serious logistical problems to enable a vibrant trading network across the Mediterranean, including, critically, supplying the city of Rome itself with the food its citizens needed to survive. We will examine the Roman grain market and the organisations that operated within that market to ask: what, exactly, is a firm? What led to the firm's evolution? And what is the issue of agency that a firm inevitably entails?

4 horas para completar

6 videos (Total 62 minutos), 3 lecturas, 5 cuestionarios

6 videos

Before We Begin13mIntroduction4mThe Problem of Information10mThe Problem of Transaction Costs8mInstitutional Solutions and The Agency Dilemma12mSupplemental (optional) Video - Class Discussion on the role of Freedmen13m

3 lecturas

Syllabus & Readings10mGrading and Logistics10mReading & Study Questions1h

5 ejercicios de práctica

Introduction10mThe Problem of Information10m The Problem of Transaction Costs10mAgency & Agency Costs10mOne: The Lessons from Rome Part I30m

Semana2

Semana 2

3 horas para completar

The Lessons from Rome Part II

3 horas para completar

4 videos (Total 46 minutos), 1 lectura, 4 cuestionarios

Semana3

Semana 3

3 horas para completar

What is Innovation?

3 horas para completar

5 videos (Total 50 minutos), 1 lectura, 4 cuestionarios

Semana4

Semana 4

3 horas para completar

The Power of Narrative

3 horas para completar

9 videos (Total 95 minutos), 1 lectura, 2 cuestionarios

9 videos

Examples of Commonplace Narratives 13mTowards a Metacritical Concept of Narrative 13mHome-Buying as An Investment 10mIrrationality in The Marketplace 9mContext Analysis 8mThe Behavior of Market Actors 9mA Cognitively Dissonant Market?13mWhy Didn't The Federal Reserve Act? 9mNarrative Structures and Managerial Decisions: Concluding Remarks 8m

1 lectura

Reading & Study Questions1h

2 ejercicios de práctica

Commonplace Narratives & Metacritical Understanding10mFour: The Power of Narrative30m

Semana5

Semana 5

2 horas para completar

Is Shareholder Value a Good Idea?

Perhaps the most important lecture of the course. Almost all publicly traded firms are beholden, either explicitly or implicitly, to the principle of creating shareholder value. This week, we look at the history of this idea, how it has become widespread as a principle of corporate governance and how it has changed fundamentally the nature of the firm over the last 40 years. We will look at who the shareholders are, where their interests lie and what they have gained from this development. We will consider the wider and long-term consequences both for the firm and society. And we will ask - is this the kind of capitalism we really want?

2 horas para completar

6 videos (Total 66 minutos), 1 lectura, 1 cuestionario

Semana6

Semana 6

3 horas para completar

Case Studies

We look at the examples of two companies whose experiences encapsulate many of the core ideas of the course. The first is Apple, which, in the context of reporting their quarterly earnings in the Spring of 2013, committed an unprecedented amount of its capital reserves to a share repurchase scheme and dividend increase. We will look at the motivation and logic for this move. The second is Nokia (which has subsequently sold off its mobile phone business to Microsoft). We will look at how the company rose - and then dramatically fell - from its position as market leader in mobile communications.

3 horas para completar

7 videos (Total 87 minutos), 1 lectura, 2 cuestionarios

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Critical Perspectives on Management

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