Not available in 2019/20
MG503 Half Unit
Interpretations of Information
This information is for the 2019/20 session.
Teacher responsible
Prof Jannis Kallinikos NAB3.24, Dr Edgar Whitley and Dr Carsten Sorensen
Availability
This course is compulsory on the MRes/PhD in Management (Information Systems and Innovation). This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit.
Pre-requisites
Other MSc students may follow this course but a good knowledge of information technology is required.
Course content
The course explores the theoretical foundations of information and the technological and institutional processes by which information is increasingly becoming a pervading and crucial element of organizational and economic life. A central theme of the course is how information and the technologies by which it is produced and disseminated are involved in the constitution and coordination of organizational operations and the control of professional practices and organizational outcomes.
Teaching
20 hours of seminars in the LT.
Indicative reading
Indicative readings are given below. A full reading list will be provided at the start of the course.
Borgmann A (2010) Reality and technology. Cambridge Journal of Economics 34(1), 27-35.
Henderson RM and Clark KB (1990) Architectural Innovation: The Reconfiguration of Existing Product Technologies and the Failure of Established Firms. Administrative Science Quarterly 35(1), 9-30.
Kallinikos J, Aaltonen A and Marton A (2012) The Ambivalent Ontology of Digital Artifacts. MIS Quarterly 37(2), 357-370.
Mathiassen L and Sørensen C (2008) Towards A Theory of Organizational Information Services. Journal of Information Technology 23(4), 313-329.
Tilson D, Lyytinen K and Sørensen C (2010) Research commentary: Digital Infrastructures: The Missing IS Research Agenda. Information Systems Research 21(5), 748–759.
Urry J (2000) Mobile Sociology. British Journal of Sociology 51(1), 185-203.
Weick KE (1993) The collapse of sensemaking in organizations: The Mann Gulch disaster. Administrative Science Quarterly 38, 628-652.
Yoo Y, Boland RJ, Lyytinen K and Majchrzak A (2012) Organizing for Innovation in the Digitized World. Organization Science 23(5), 1398-1408.
Assessment
Essay (100%, 7000 words).
An essay of 7,000 words (100%).
Key facts
Department: Management
Total students 2018/19: Unavailable
Average class size 2018/19: Unavailable
Value: Half Unit
Personal development skills
- Self-management
- Problem solving
- Communication
