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| GCER0027-1 | Managing network companies
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| Duration : | 10h Th, 62h E-Lrng |
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| Lecturer : | Olivier Lisein |
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| Coordinator : | N... |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language |
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Organisation and examination :
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| Teaching in the first semester, review in January |
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Course contents :
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| The course is focused on the analysis of new organizational forms, issued from recent developments in the corporate strategies of Western companies. On the basis of a symbolic case (The High-Speed Train Company Thalys International), it has recourse to 5 theories, belonging to sociology and economics, in view of building a multidimensional diagnosis and proposing improvements: contingent theory, political theory, conventions theory, transaction cost theory and actor-network theory. |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| Initiation to diagnosis and intervention (students are invited to take the role of a junior consultant) |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| This is a distant-learning course. Only one meeting takes place in the classroom: the first one (general presentation of the content and of the methodology of the course as well as overview of the main theoretical concepts). The remaining parts of the course are structured in dedicated missions, planned on a detailed schedule. These lessons must be realized online in group of 3 or 4 students and have to provide in-depth diagnoses, linked to the dedicated content of each mission. A final mission (where students are requested to provide a synthesis of the partial diagnoses undertaken during the semester as well as operational recommendations based of their previous analyses) is also planned at the end of the course. This final mission corresponds to an oral presentation (15 to 20 minutes) and is the subject of an interactive debate, organized via visioconferences. |
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Recommended or required readings :
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| The participants must access the virtual campus. They will have at their disposal the theoretical information required, the description of the missions, the agenda, and the various video sequences. |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| The final evaluation is based on the quality of each group's contribution to the different online missions and on the final presentation of the diagnosis and the recommendations. |
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Contacts :
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| Professor:
Olivier LISEIN,
HEC Management School - University of Liège,
Building B.51 - LENTIC;
Tel.: 04 366 30 70;
E-Mail: O.Lisein@ulg.ac.be |
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