Research Seminar "Contemporary Studies in Business"

2024/2025

Учебный год

ENG

Обучение ведется на английском языке

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Кредиты

Кто читает:

Кафедра венчурного менеджмента (Нижний Новгород) (Факультет менеджмента (Нижний Новгород))

Статус:

Курс обязательный

Когда читается:

1-й курс, 1, 2 модуль

Преподаватели

Назаров Михаил Геннадьевич

Привалов Игорь Васильевич

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course is competence oriented and designed to help students in development their own research style and allow to plan, design, organize research, as well as analyze data, and presents results of scientific project in area International Management. During the course students should revise their own academic competencies, get familiar with European and USA research traditions. Seminars will be devoted to analysis of articles from top ten leading Management Journals (e.g. Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal), discussions of possible research problems, and methodology issues, as well as possible ways for data collection and analysis. Although, the course mainly focuses on research methodology, all phases of the research will be considered: finding idea, choosing research paradigm, searching sources, designing research, collecting data, data analysis (quantitative and qualitative data), presenting results, scientific standards and best research practices. Special attention will be paid to: research ethics, differences in intercultural perspectives in the Management, organization of cross-cultural research, and scientific time management. The current control of the discipline includes five quizzes. The final grade will be based on final test, taking into account the results of results of current control.

Learning Objectives

• The aim of the research seminar «Managing international projects» is mastering competences in the field of modern project management tools and enhancing competence in international project management

Expected Learning Outcomes

• knows the relevant tools for data analysis
• be able to justify the chosen research methodology
• Utilize main marketing research methods and techniques
• Highlights the main areas of research in the field of management
• Identifies and formulates a problem in his/her research area

Course Contents

• Applied marketing research
• How to write a Master thesis
• Modern methods of data analysis
• Qualitative and quantitative methods for research in management

Assessment Elements

• Master thesis proposal
  Students should develop the structure of their master thesis, define the model of research for the master thesis: aim of the research, tasks, methods of the research, hypothesis, methods of gathering information or sourсes of information for the research, methods for data analysis.
• HW 2
  Research results for master thesis: research methodology, results of the research

Interim Assessment

• 2024/2025 2nd module
  1 * Master thesis proposal
• 2025/2026 3rd module
  1 * HW 2

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Kuster, J., Huber, E., Lippmann, R., Schmid, A., Schneider, E., Witschi, U., Wüst, R.. Project management handbook.: Heidelberg, Springer, 2015 - 449 - 978-3-662-45373-5: Текст электронный // https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-662-45373-5

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• 9781628254587 - Trilling, Bernie; Ginevri, Walter - Project Management for Education : The Bridge to 21st Century Learning - 2017 - Project Management Institute - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=1703504 - nlebk - 1703504
• Shankar S., Muller R., Drouin N. Cambridge Handbook of Organizational Project Management, 2017. Режим доступа: http://library.books24x7.com/bookshelf.asp

Authors

• Белохлебова Наталья Александровна
• BUTRYUMOVA NADEZHDA NIKOLAEVNA
• SHABANOVA ZHANNA RUBENOVNA
• Denisov Mikhail Valerevich