The MOB PhD

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Department of Management
New York University
Stern School of Business
Tisch Hall, Suite 7-20
40 West Fourth Street
New York, NY 10012-1118
(212) 998-0200
(212) 995-4235 (fax)
emcardle@stern.nyu.edu

Doctoral Courses

Research Methods

This course presents the philosophy, basic concepts, and techniques that doctoral students need to conduct scientific research in the social sciences. Students discuss theory-building, the scientific method concepts of measurement, research design, sampling, and statistical inference. They also discuss questions of objectivity, values, ethics, and polices in scientific research. Primary emphasis is placed on developing a solid conceptualization of the research process, the uses to which research may be put, and its practical implications. Topics in research design and data analysis are also covered. Students design an empirical study and collect data to test the study's hypotheses. Data analytic techniques such as multiple regression and simultaneous equations are discussed and practiced.

This course introduces doctoral students to scientific theories of individual and organizational behavior. The course reviews processes of perception, judgment, attribution, choice, motivation, and decision-making. Since organizational behavior occurs mostly in social settings, the course introduces the social psychological effects on individual behavior with regard to motivation, performance, and group processes. Attention is given to the effects of social contexts on information processing and inference with regard to such topics as performance evaluation, job satisfaction, and organizational justice. Theories of individual and group behavior are applied to topics such as leadership, managerial risk-taking, organizational culture, and change processes.

Organizations operate in dynamic environments. This course introduces doctoral students to the principal theoretical perspectives and empirical findings used to explain relationships among environments, organizational strategies, designs, and performance. Students are expected to develop expertise in the analysis of environments and organizations from several theoretical perspectives, such as resource dependence theory, institutional theory, organizational ecology, and industrial organization economics. The seminar stresses the competitive and mutual dimensions of environments that propel managers to enact business, corporate, and collective strategies, structures, processes, and systems to enhance their firms' effectiveness. Both theoretical and empirical research are examined to illustrate how different theoretical perspectives require different empirical research methodologies.

This course introduces doctoral students to the principal theoretical perspectives and empirical findings in the field of strategy. Students will explore strategy from several theoretical perspectives including industrial organization economics, resource-based view, agency and game theory, transaction cost economics, institutional theory, and organizational ecology. The seminar stresses the analysis of competitive interactions. While this course emphasizes the state of the art in theory development and empirical research, the historical roots of current research are also examined.

This is a cross-disciplinary course, focusing on cognitive research in organizational behavior, organization theory, and strategy. Topics related to organizational behavior include attribution theory, social identity theory, escalation of commitment, decision biases, and small group decision-making. Topics related to organization theory include the following: environmental perception and interpretation, issue interpretation, issue selling, and sense-making/sense-giving. Topics from the strategy domain cover top management team research, decision biases as applied to strategic decision-making, and managerial cognition as applied to perceiving competition.