This course provides doctoral candidates with a foundation in the strategy literature. Drawing on strategy traditions that vary from positioning to dynamic capabilities, a primordial aim of the seminar will be to explain variation in firm and industry performance.
Each session during the seminar is intended to expose doctoral candidates to the seminal literature on the topic with a view to encouraging them to write a research paper of publishable quality in peer review journals. Topics covered in the seminar include general areas such as the resource-based view of the firm, industry evolution and dynamics, strategy-related theories of the firm, and diversification and vertical integration.
Given the relatively short nature of the course, we will not cover all areas of strategy, but participants are encouraged to develop further readings and exploration based on the literature covered in this seminar.
- Instructors: Yusaf Akbar, Dominika Dash