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Title KNOWLEDGE CREATION
Code KDBA307
Coordinator Dr M Sarma
Strategy, IB and Entrepreneurship
Meera.Sarma@liverpool.ac.uk
Year CATS Level Semester CATS Value
Session 2020-21 Level 8 FHEQ Whole Session 30

Pre-requisites before taking this module (other modules and/or general educational/academic requirements):
KDBA300 THE DOCTORAL PRACTITIONER 

Modules for which this module is a pre-requisite:
 

Programme(s) (including Year of Study) to which this module is available on a required basis:
 

Programme(s) (including Year of Study) to which this module is available on an optional basis:
 

Teaching Schedule
  Lectures Seminars Tutorials Lab Practicals Fieldwork Placement Other TOTAL
Study Hours           200

 200
Timetable (if known)              
Private Study 100
TOTAL HOURS 300

Assessment
EXAM Duration Timing
(Semester)		 % of
final
mark		 Resit/resubmission
opportunity		 Penalty for late
submission		 Notes
             
CONTINUOUS Duration Timing
(Semester)		 % of
final
mark		 Resit/resubmission
opportunity		 Penalty for late
submission		 Notes
Class Discussion Question There is a resit opportunity. Standard UoL penalty applies for late submission. This is not an anonymous assessment. Assessment Schedule (When) :Weekly apart from wks   Whole Session    10       
Learning Team Participation There is a resit opportunity. Standard UoL penalty applies for late submission. This is not an anonymous assessment. Assessment Schedule (When) :Weeks 1-9  Whole Session    25       
Critical Action Learning Progress Report There is a resit opportunity. Standard UoL penalty applies for late submission. This is not an anonymous assessment. Assessment Schedule (When) :Weeks 2  Whole Session    10       
Problematizing Write-up There is a resit opportunity. Standard UoL penalty applies for late submission. This is not an anonymous assessment. Assessment Schedule (When) :Week 5  Whole Session    10       
Critical Literature Review There is a resit opportunity. Standard UoL penalty applies for late submission. This is not an anonymous assessment. Assessment Schedule (When) :Week 3  Whole Session    10       
Critical Action Learning Final Report There is a resit opportunity. Standard UoL penalty applies for late submission. This is not an anonymous assessment. Assessment Schedule (When) :Week 10  Whole Session    35       

Aims

Understand the philosophical history of social scientific research and how this affects management research in particular;

Be familiar with debates about the purpose of management research, the process of knowledge creation and dissemination into managerial practice;

Understand a range of concepts in management research, including positivism and interpretivism; objectivism and constructionism; modernism and postmodernism; quantitative and qualitative, and be able to apply them critically;

Have a critical awareness of the influence of power, politics and ethics on management research;

Have an appreciation of how understandings of management research affect the theory and practice of action research.

Learning Outcomes

(LO1) The history and development of social investigation specifically relevant to social science and management research in particular;

(LO2) Historical underpinnings of action research (e.g., within pragmatism, symbolic interactionism, and phenomenology);

(LO3) How positivist, idealist and critical approaches to management research have been conducted;

(LO4) Postmodern approaches in the construction of management knowledge;

(LO5) Power, politics and ethics in management research;

(LO6) Concepts, design and strategy with a particular emphasis on action research.

(S1) Numeracy;

(S2) Teamwork;

(S3) Communication skills;

(S4) Problem solving skills;

(S5) IT skills;

(S6) Time Management.

Teaching and Learning Strategies

Teaching Method 1 - Virtual Classroom hours (for online modules)
Description: Virtual classroom hours (for online modules)

Syllabus
 

The syllabus includes:

What is social science and how is it relevant to knowledge construction for management;

What is meant by ‘cause’ and how it relates to ‘effect’;

The general character of positivism, idealism, realism and postmodernism and their relevance to management research;

The role of social constructionism in knowledge creation;

Text, Grounded Theory and Hermeneutics;

Measurement, classification, description and exploration;

Knowledge creation and the action research project.

Recommended Texts
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