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BBP6781 Seminar In Strategic Management (1)
This seminar surveys the major theoretical perspectives and issues studied in strategic management research. The course draws upon theoretical perspectives from economics, sociology and organization theory to supplement more traditional strategy approaches towards understanding firm performance and related issues. An illustrative list of the issues addressed in strategy research includes identifying the profit potential of industries, exploring relationships between firm resources, behavior and performance, and understanding the managerial and organizational determinants of firm level outcomes. Many of the issues examined, for example, vertical integration, firm diversification, industry structure, and inter-organizational cooperation, are also common themes in other disciplines such as industrial organization economics, marketing, and organizational and economic sociology.
BBP6782 Seminar In Strategic Management (2)
Continuing on BBP6781, this seminar takes on more theoretical perspectives such as system dynamics and population ecology. This seminar also addresses strategic decision making processes such as satisficing, logical incrementalism. Topics of entrepreneurial, planning and adaptive modes Involvement of organizational members and strategy as an outcome of bargaining and negotiating among factions are also covered.
BBP6791 Seminar In International Business
This course focuses on research in international business - especially international business strategy and foreign direct investment. The objectives of this course are three-fold: to discuss past and current research in these areas, to aid students when framing and designing research projects in these areas, and to challenge the current state of knowledge in the field and discuss avenues for future research.
BBP6792 Applied Econometrics For Business Study
This is an applied course in PhD level econometrics, with special focus on empirical issues in strategy management research. The focus is on cross section and panel issues. Topics include single equation analysis, system estimations, simultaneous equation analysis, panel data analysis, and limited dependent variable models (discrete, count and duration dependent variables).
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BFA6001 Accounting Research Seminars
The objective of the course is to introduce students to research topics in accounting. Both theoretical and empirical research will receive much attention in the course. The students will understand which accounting issues are important, why they are important, and how these research issues might be explored. Selected accounting research issues covered in the course are informational perspective of accounting, measurement perspective of accounting, positively accounting research, earnings management, corporate governance, managerial planning and control.
BFA6002 Finance Theory
This is a foundation course in investment decision making and asset pricing. The topics covered in the course are utility theory, decision making under uncertainty, mean-variance portfolio analysis, portfolio separation, equilibrium pricing in static and dynamic economies, risk neutral pricing in static and dynamic economies, stochastic discount factor interpretation of asset pricing, and asset pricing with differential information.
BFA6003 Corporate Finance
This is a foundation (theory) course of corporate finance. The course reviews basic concepts of game theory, information economics, contract theory used in corporate finance theory. The topics cover financial structure, financing investment, tax system, dividend policy, M&A, and bankruptcy and reorganisation.
BFA6004 Empirical Finnce
This course deals with the fundamental ideas and issues tackled in empirical research in finance. It provides a basic overview of the theoretical concepts underpinning financial models as well as the methodology employed to test these models. The course surveys a wide range of empirical work and key empirical papers on the topics selected. The selection of topics and papers will change from year to year and might include asset pricing models, market efficiency, market anomalies, return predictability, behavioral finance, market microstructure, trading mechanisms, volatility models, and international finance.
BMO6001 Seminar In Organizational Behavior
This seminar will explore the major issues and debates in the field of Organizational Behavior, with particular emphasis on the behavior of individuals and small groups in the organizational context. Students will be required to critically analyze the theories and supporting research relating to these various issues. Basic knowledge of organizational behavior, social science research methods and statistics will be necessary. In addition to extensive readings and discussions, each student will be required to submit two term papers, which summarize knowledge and research in two topics and will include a research proposal to address an outstanding issue/debate in the area.
BMO6002 Seminar in Organizational Theory
The seminar in Organizational Theory provides the students with a broad overview of the field as well as an in-depth look at the current debates and the emerging picture in the field. We will read and discuss classical organizational sociology and the emergent fields such as organizational economics, institutional theory, network theory and organizational ecology. The students will be expected to engage in independent reading, interpretation and debate. During the semester, the students will submit two short papers on topics of their choice, and a final term paper with an integrative theme. This paper should demonstrate a deep understanding of the material, an ability to integrate literature, and independent conceptual development.
BMO6003 Seminar in Human Resource Management
This is a seminar course for research students who already have some background in the core substantive areas of human resource management. Some familiarity with social science research methods is expected. The specific issues addressed in this seminar include topics such as (1) alternative views of strategic human resource management and sustainable competitive advantage, (2) research on HRM policies and organizational performance, (3) the changing nature of the employment relationship, selection, internal staffing and careers, (4) employee development, skill formation, compensation and performance management, and (5) Research on HR across national borders. Students are required to examine an assortment of conceptual and empirical articles that present the on-going debates among HRM scholars relating to these issues, and to prepare an oral and written critique of the key substantive and methodological issues presented in the articles. In addition, they are required to prepare a draft research proposal explaining how they would be able to examine an important but unresolved issue within the domain of HRM. This proposal does not bind the student to conduct thesis work in this area.
BMO6004 Seminar in Research Methodology
This course focuses on the skills involved in understanding, evaluating, conducting and reporting research in the behavioral sciences. Topics addressed include the philosophy of science, theory building in behavioral sciences research, hypotheses development, alternative inquiry methods such as quantitative and qualitative research, and research design among others. The course will address experimental design, survey research, qualitative research methods and emerging streams of research. The course is conducted as a seminar with extensive, readings and preparation. A reasonable knowledge of statistics and a basic knowledge of social science research are necessary for this course. Students are expected to rely on themselves to conduct independent projects as part of the course.
BMO6005 Special Topics In Organizational Behavior
This seminar is an advanced seminar that focuses on emerging issues in the field of organizational behavior. Topics discussed depend on the expertise of the faculty member conducting the course. Some of the topics include (but not limited to), organizational citizenship behavior, leadership, network analysis, and the ecological view of organizations.
BMO6007 Advanced Seminar In Quantitative Research Methods
The purpose of this course is to introduce PhD students to recent applications of stat-of-art statistical models in management research. After this course, students should be able to understand and critique applications of these techniques in the literature. Students should also gain some ground to apply them in their own research. New statistical models will be introduced more at the conceptual and application levels rather than mathematical levels. Topics include data management, multivariate regression, factor analysis & structure equation modeling, hierarchical linear modeling, longitudinal data analysis, meta-analysis and survival analysis.
BMK6101 Marketing Seminar 1 (Modeling)
This seminar will introduce students to the fundamentals of modeling in marketing. Among the topics we will cover include marketing models and implementation, market segmentation, pricing, market structure, market share, market entry/timing, and distribution channels. We will rely heavily on journal articles in discussing these topics. Students are expected to be fully prepared for all readings. A research proposal on a topic (to be approved by instructor) based on those covered in this seminar is due at the end of the semester.
BMK6102 Marketing Seminar 2 (Modeling)
Similar to MK5101, this seminar will rely on journal articles for our weekly discussions. Building on your knowledge of MK5101, microeconomics and mathematical statistics, the topics we cover here include forecasting, new product diffusion, product models, product design, advertising and promotion, consumer choice, and sales force management. The deliverable will be a research proposal, which may form the genesis of your dissertation.
BMK6103 Marketing Seminar 3 (Consumer Behavior)
This course provides marketing doctoral students with an overview of the consumer behavior literature. The emphasis is on understanding the conceptualization and examination of research issues in the field. The key conceptual and empirical research streams in consumer behavior (e.g., information processing, memory and learning, cognition and affect, the self and identity, group influences, symbolic consumption behavior, consumption communities, etc) will be discussed in class. Students will read relevant journal articles from the leading publications in consumer behavior, and participate actively in class discussions. They are expected, not only to learn about and synthesize the ideas of other consumer researchers, but to identify and develop their own research interests. A paper expressing an initial research agenda is required at the end of the course.
BMK6104 Marketing Seminar 4 (Consumer Behavior)
This course provides marketing doctoral students with a historical perspective on how marketing theory has evolved through the years (e.g., what is marketing?), and the critical issues confronting marketers and consumer researchers today (e.g., positivist versus interpretivist paradigms). Using classic and contemporary articles, the course prepares students to analyze marketing and consumer research from various theoretical perspectives. Students are challenged to critically evaluate what constitutes a good theory, and to explore alternative ways of doing research and obtaining knowledge. A paper addressing a conceptual or empirical issue in marketing theory is required at the end of the course.
BMK6108 Game Theory
Game Theory provides a scientific approach in the analysis of situations "involving two or more participants, each trying to influence, to outguess, or to adapt to the decision or lines of behavior that others have just adopted, or are expected to adopt" (Thomas Schelling).
There are three parts to this seminar. Firstly, the fundamental knowledge of Game Theory as a research tool to analyze strategic problems in the various areas of business, including marketing, operations and finance will be presented. Thereafter, research papers will be discussed. Finally, the course ends with the participants presenting their research ideas which requires the use of game theory.