SOM 498: Strategic Management (Section 006 and section 007) Semester: Spring 2013 (updated Jan 22, 2013)
Professor: Mahesh P. Joshi Ph.D. Office: 210 Enterprise Hall; (703) 993-1761 email: mpjoshi@gmu.edu; mpjgmu@gmail.com (preferred email)
Timings: 4:30 pm to 7:10 pm (section 006) and 7:20 pm – 10:00 pm (section 007)
Day: Tuesday
Location: Robinson Hall B 208 (section 006) and Robinson Hall B 211 (section 007)
Office Hours: Tuesday 3:30 pm to 4:00 pm or anytime by appointment Instructional Material: Strategic Management Concepts By Frank Rothaermel - McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. - 2012 – First Edition, Paperback - ISBN 978 0 07 732445-2
Cases for the class: available at: HBSP 1. Wii Encore? By…show more content… Student Responsibilities: You should enjoy taking advantage of opportunities in this class to develop your analytical and strategic thinking abilities and polish your communication skills, so that you can graduate from the School of Management with confidence in your talents. Is this going to be hard? Yes. Are you going to get a significant return on your investment? I think so. As your instructor, I will create an environment that maximizes your potential to thrive in this course. As such, you should plan to spend a significant amount of time on this course and make sure that you are in a position to succeed - i.e., not trying to overload credits, not working 60 hours a week and trying to go to school full time. In other words, I expect that school is your first priority. If you have any questions about whether or not this is a reasonable time to take this course, given your competing non-school responsibilities, I will be happy to sit down with you before the drop/add date to determine if you are in a reasonable position to succeed. Put simply, you are responsible for providing yourself enough time and energy to succeed in this course.
The course primarily uses a combination of lectures, class discussions, case analyses; and group/individual assignments. The structure of this course is to achieve simultaneous learning and enjoyment. In other words, with my efforts and your inputs you will learn a great deal and
CASE STUDY APPROACH IN QUALITATIVE
RESEARCH
Dr.Soumya Kanti Sinha
Department of Philosophy, P.K.College,Contai, Purba Midnapore,West Bengal, India
Soumyasinha77@gmail.com
Introduction
Miles and Huberman (1994) present a graphic meaning of a case study by suggesting that it is like a circle with a heart in the middle (see Figure 5.1). The heart is the focus of the study, while the circle defines the edge or boundary of the case. What is beyond the edge or boundary will not
CASE STUDY #1
A Job Search Dilemma
Eric, a second-semester senior, is looking for a job. Anxious about finding work in the worst economy in decades, he sends out scores of resumes for a wide variety of positions. The first call he gets is for a position that doesn't really interest him, but he figures he should be open to every opportunity. He schedules an interview, which he aces. In fact, the recruiter offers Eric the job on the spot. He would like Eric to start as soon as possible.
Should Eric
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Reasons choose the case
1.2 The Problems
The problems of this case are:
1. How would you characterize Lincoln Electric’s strategy? In this context, what is the nature of Lincoln’s business and upon what bases does this company compete?
2. What are the most important elements of Lincoln’s overall approach to organization and control that help explain why this company is so successful? How well do Lincoln’s organization and control mechanisms
A case study is a specific instance that is frequently designed to illustrate a more general principle (Nisbet and Watt, 1984). Hitchock and Hughes (1995) further suggest that the case study approach is particularly valuable when the researcher has little control over evens. Case studies strives to portray ‘what it like’ to be a particular situation, to catch up reality and ‘thick description’ (Geertz, 1973) of participants’ lives experiences of, thoughts about and feelings for a situation. They
teaching and learning resources: Resources for students • A dynamic eText of the book which you can search, bookmark, annotate and highlight as you please • Self-assessment questions that identify your strengths before recommending a personalised study plan that
of Management and Labour Studies
TATA INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
ENTREPRENEURSHIP may be defined as a process of organizing any enterprise, a commercial or social venture, managing it with considerable initiative, innovation and risk.
Introduction to Entrepreneurship
The course on entrepreneurship was introduced with a Case study of Mamma Mia that helped bring out and refine our preconceived and insufficient understanding of "entrepreneurship".
In the case study we tried to understand what
Writing Business Case Studies
How to Write Business Case Studies
The objective of this part of the course is to use your case study to help you solve real company problems and to make the learning more relevant to your experience.
The Business Case Study you are being asked to start today will provide information for yourself and the class to permit constructive feedback. You will have to use all of your research, writing and analytical skills to write your Company Case Study.
You must give enough
4.1 Case Study Approach
Case study research bring out the insight of the complex problems and enhance understanding, knowledge and experience that is already studied though previous research. Case study focus on the detailed contextual analysis of a limited number of events or relationships between the events. Case study research have the around for years and researchers have used the technique across many disciplines for different problems. Across all the domains, the social scientist have made
Sampling Case Studies
Case Study 1 on Sampling
Sampling Hispanic Adults by Telephone1
Problem: Researchers wanted to determine how aware adult Hispanics in the San Francisco area are of product warning messages and signs concerning cigarettes, alcoholic beverages, and other consumer products. The researchers needed to contact a sample of them to interview.
A Solution: “Respondents were sampled using…random digit dialing. This procedure…avoids the use of directories with their inherent problem
A case study is a description of an actual administrative situation involving a decision to be made
or a problem to be solved. It can be a real situation that actually happened just as described, or portions have been disguised for reasons of privacy. Most case studies are written in such a way that the reader takes the place of the manager whose responsibility is to make decisions to help solve the problem. In almost all case studies, a decision must be made, although that decision might be to