| AR 601 Action Research Methodologies and Approaches |
3 Credits |
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It is important for students to understand the history, or
histories, of AR, and to be aware of the many current
varieties of AR. There is an international community, with
a tradition of dialogue and debate. This core course will
include contributions from leading researchers, and an
underpinning from the literature. From the start, students
will write reflection papers on their own practice, and
locate themselves in the various traditions, including:
Participatory AR; Socio-Technical Systems Thinking;
Scandinavian (Dialogical) AR; Southern (Emancipatory)
AR; Collaborative Inquiry; Appreciative Inquiry;
Educational AR. For each, the course will consider cases
and core literature. Students will interact directly with
course faculty, as the Sabanci AR culture develops
through the Transformation Project.
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Course Name |
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| Fall 2020-2021 |
Action Research Methodologies and Approaches |
3 |
| Spring 2019-2020 |
Action Research Methodologies and Approaches |
3 |
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| ECTS Credit: 12 ECTS (12 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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| AR 602 Philosophy of Science and Action Research |
3 Credits |
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The course uses insights from Aristotle on ways of
knowing (empeiria, praxis, poíêsis, khrêsis etc) and
ways of speaking/writing (dialogue, rhetoric, didactics,
phronesis, tekhne etc) and more, not merely as our
curious historical predecessors, but as important
distinctions in analyzing the modern / postmodern
situation for knowledge production and the
institutionalization of knowledge production (knowledge
management regimes). The different forms of Action
Research and conventional research are analyzed
accordingly, showing that our modern / postmodern
predicament needs several different forms of AR
(collaborative, practitioner, organizational learning,
symbiotic learning etc) but especially a form of
immanent critique which unites conventional research,
apprenticeship learning, critical theory, praxis-research,
and Action Research
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| Fall 2020-2021 |
Philosophy of Science and Action Research |
3 |
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| AR 603 The Practice(s) of Action Research: |
3 Credits |
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A contemporary stakeholder approach to participative change.
After a brief grounding in pragmatic worldview, this
course emphasizes an experiential approach. Through the
use of articles, books, cases, video and live-interviews
with senior action researchers, students will
become familiar with a selection of contemporary
approaches of action research, selecting one for a deeper
application to enrich their own field projects.The student
is successful in this course when they link their personal
leadership development to their learning edge within their
own field project. Students may expect to leave with a
better understanding of herself (himself) as an agent of
change, more awareness of the variety of action research
practices, as well as more understanding and experience
with a "participative learning" oriented approach to
stakeholder engagement. Students may expect support
with "just in time" peer coaching.
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| Fall 2020-2021 |
The Practice(s) of Action Research: |
3 |
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| ECTS Credit: 12 ECTS (12 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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| AR 604 Context and Transformation |
3 Credits |
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The course explores transformation, covering theoretical
perspectives that examine organizational, social,
economic and political contexts. We construct an
interdisciplinary framework, drawing from social theory,
organization theory, political theory, political economy,
and moral philosophy. Our primary objective is to learn
the paradigms of structure and agency. We focus on
functionalist, interactionist,
conflict, and critical theory, and explore how we may
use each of these paradigms in particular case
studies. We consider power, and how it influences
transformation processes, as both a constraint and
facilitator. We problematize and differentiate macro
and micro contexts. We study contemporary global
and local issues that business executives and other
organizational leaders, as change agents, face in their
professional contexts and everyday life. We examine
managing disruptions in international trade and
international finance; interstate conflicts regarding
global governance; social, economic and political
concerns about governmental policies on problems
such as unemployment, social and gender inequality,
environmental sustainability, climate change, and
rapid and never-ending technological change towards
robotics and Artificial Intelligence; and growing social
demand for corporate social responsibility and ethical
conduct from business executives. Students are
required to work on a live transformation process,
through teaming up with local organizations or joining
in an ongoing project in their organizations.
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Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Spring 2020-2021 |
Context and Transformation |
3 |
| Spring 2019-2020 |
Context and Transformation |
3 |
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| ECTS Credit: 12 ECTS (12 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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| AR 605 The Social Ecology and Socio-Technical Systems Design |
3 Credits |
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This course focuses on the Open System Theory/Thinking
(OST) originally associated with researchers at the
Tavistock Institute, and its long tradition of Action
Research. OST, also called Social Scology, is a distinctive
school in management and organization studies developed
over the past 60 years, with Action Research at its core.
The course discusses its origins and history, recent
developments, distinctive conceptual and intervention
principles, and practical applications using Action Research
method. OST’s 3 levels of analysis and intervention: socio-
psychological, socio-technical and socio-ecological, will
be examined in
detail. The course situates OST in relation to other
schools in management and organization studies, and to
other approaches to Action Research. Illustrative topics
Origins and history; recent developments: connections to
strategy, dynamic capabilities and design thinking;
pioneers and recent/current practitioners; Intervention
principles and modalities; levels of analysis and
intervention: socio-psychological, socio-technical, socio-
ecological; workplace interventions: factory, office,
digital/virtual, transorganizational settings; domain-based,
ecological and other large-scale interventions:
community, regional, interest group settings.
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| AR 606 Systems Thinking |
3 Credits |
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This course introduces PhD students to a range of
transdisciplinary systems methodologies that have
been used in an Action Research mode to address
complex organisational, social and environmental
issues. Systems methodologies are particularly useful
when there is a need to appreciate the ‘bigger picture’
rather than focus down on just one part of the issue and
an introduction to cutting-edge research on theories
and frameworks for exploring problem situations and
mixing methods
The aims of the module are to provide students with:
(1) An overview of representative systems
methodologies, their different paradigmatic assumptions
and the systems thinking skills that they emphasise;
(2) An understanding of their main purposes, strengths
and weaknesses in the context of Action Research
projects;
(3) Experience of planning and engaging an intervention
within their Project.
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SU Credit |
| Spring 2020-2021 |
Systems Thinking |
3 |
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| ECTS Credit: 12 ECTS (12 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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| AR 607 Facilitating Action Research Interventions |
3 Credits |
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Action research invariably involves gathering groups of
participants to engage their perspectives and invite their
collaboration. This requires some skill on the part of the
action researcher in facilitating meetings, workshops and
other participative processes. In this course we shall
examine the art and theory of
facilitation, locating it in the organizational history of
interventions. We shall find inspiration in the
organizational planning methodology Appreciative
Inquiry and draw on insights about autonomy and
intrinsic motivation articulated within Positive
Psychology. Exercises in facilitation will be conducted
in class, using the real challenges that students face in
their respective organizations. Students should take
away from this course some experience with the very
proactive role of the action-research facilitator.
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| AR 608 Insider Action Research |
3 Credits |
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The phenomenon of doing Action Research in
one’s own organization has become established
as an important way of understanding and
changing organizations. When complete members
of an organization seek to inquire into the working
of their own organizational or community system
in order to change something in it and generate
actionable knowledge, they can be understood as
undertaking Insider Action Research. Complete
membership is contrasted with those who enter a
system temporarily for the sake of conducting
research. It may be defined in terms of wanting to
remain a member within a desired career path
when the research is completed. Insider Action
Research offers a unique perspective on systems,
precisely because it is from the inside. The context
of Insider Action Research is the strategic and
operational setting that organizational members
confront in their working lives. Issues of
organizational concern, such as systems
improvement, organizational learning, the
management of change and so on are suitable
subjects for Insider Action Research, since (a)
they are real events which must be managed in
real time, (b) they provide opportunities for both
effective action and learning, and (c) they can
contribute to the development of theory of what
really goes on in organizations. The course
explores the challenges faced by Insider Action
Researchers this course introduces and explores
being a scholar-practitioner-researcher in one’s
own organizational system.
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Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Fall 2020-2021 |
Insider Action Research |
3 |
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| Prerequisite: __ |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 12 ECTS (12 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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| AR 609 Organizational Learning and Action Research |
3 Credits |
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This course examines how individual and organizational
learning lead to knowledge creation as well as examining
the processes and structures for forming learning
organizations. A theory of action, action science, and
action learning perspectives will be provided so that
students understand, appreciate and engage in the
constructive and action to remove the inhibitors and to
embrace facilitators.
The course will start with the neural aspects of individual
learning, i.e.,how humans learn and make decisions
based on their learnings and vice versa; that is to say,
how they learn as they make decisions and/or act. The
role of exploitation and exploration in learning will also
be covered at this part. Laws of thermodynamics and
evolution, biases associated with human decision-
making, evidence from neuroscience, techniques and
methodologies developed by operations research and
decision sciences are all going to provide a
comprehensive framework to understand why utilizing
both of them (i.e., exploitation and exploration) hand in
hand, is the key for resilience, agility, flexibility,
individual happiness and in a sense success.
The course operates at several levels: taking account of
the extensive literature on organizational and action
learning, supporting the individual action research
projects of the students, and reflecting on the experience
of the Transformation Project, which operates over the
four years of the program.
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| AR 610 Gender, Diversity and Action Research |
3 Credits |
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Gender cuts across all aspects of inequality and lies at
the center of current debates around sustainable
development. The course enables participants to
recognize the linkages between gender and sustainability
and specifically the role of gender diversity in
transforming the role of business in society. The course
explores gender both from a diversity perspective and
from a feminist ethics perspective in
relation to the quality of business decision making,
ethical conduct as well as the broader implications of
gender diversity and equality for the society at large.
The course positions companies as transformational
agents in changing the way the business is run,
products and services are developed, human capital is
managed, and the business objectives are set through
empowering women and embracing diversity. The
course will provide instruction on feminist pedagogies in
action, specifically feminist Participatory Action
Research, and present theoretical and empirical
perspectives on the dialogue use across difference, and
in identifying and dealing with resistance. The course
also explores actor networks and enabling initiatives
around the world as instruments available for business
transformation. The course will also allow students to
study and/or take part in initiatives for social change
towards gender equality in the intersection of business,
civil society and education at different levels.
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| AR 611 Sustainability Transition and Action Research |
3 Credits |
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The purpose of the course is to understand how
business transition to sustainable development can be
guided and accelerated with action oriented,
interdisciplinary and applied approaches. The course
takes a critical perspective on business as usual by
exploring the intersections between sustainable
development agenda, markets and business
organisations from a multi stakeholder-multi actor
perspective. Topics covered include the
reconceptualization of the purpose of the firm and its
implications for governance, the transformation of
financial markets and transformative networks as
change agents. The course uses problem-based
learning (have students discuss different perspectives
on complex real-life issues and dive into different
literatures to formulate critical analysis, hypotheses and
ideas for change) with experimental learning-by-doing
(co-creating solutions, testing and refining and
evaluating).
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Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Spring 2020-2021 |
Sustainability Transition and Action Research |
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| Prerequisite: __ |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 12 ECTS (12 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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| AR 612 Business Ethics and Action Research |
3 Credits |
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The course provides a practical framework for using ethics
as an instrument to address dilemmas actors face in the
conduct of business. The course analyses current ethical
issues, conflicts and dilemmas that emerge in the
interactions between companies and their political, social
and physical environment, with a focus on developing
capabilities for moral framing for mobilising actors for
action. During the course the students explore critical
perspectives on legal and ethical conduct, discuss real
world complex ethical issues such as negative externalities,
unconscious discrimination, unfair-competition, gender,
animal welfare, misleading disclosures, nationalism,
privacy and human capital management using
sustainability as an overarching ethical framework.
Positioning the business organisation as a medium through
which human rights are exercised, students develop in-
depth intellectual capabilities for a moral inquiry and
mobilising actors for ethical conduct
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| AR 613 Workplace Innovation |
3 Credits |
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This course addresses the workplace as a context for
innovation, which may be driven by employees, and
related to aspects of the work environment, work
organisation, partnership and learning. The work
builds on strong research foundations, including
evidence of effects of Workplace Innovation on
organizational performance and job quality. Lessons
are learned from national and European programs.
There is a central facilitating and enabling role for
Action Research, which is supported by collaboration,
networking and learning from differences. Students
will be linked to company projects, and to the European
Workplace Innovation Network (EUWIN), which is active
in 30 countries, and associated with programmes
supported by the European Commission.
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| AR 614 Research Methods |
3 Credits |
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From the perspective of Action Research, the course
considers a range of Qualitative and Quantitative Methods,
equipping students to conduct their individual research and
to understand scholarship from other traditions.
Action Research can be understood as a goal oriented
meta-method utilizing any and all other methodologies
to acquire learning relevant to the objectives at hand. As
such, expertise in Action Research requires an
understanding of the broad range of methodologies used to
learn and appreciation of their strengths and limitations.
In this course, we introduce key concepts of epistemology
and provide an overview of the principal methodologies
employed in management and organization studies
, including case studies, interviews, observation,
ethnography, quasi- and natural experiments,
and survey research.
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| AR 615 Educational Action Research |
3 Credits |
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This course addresses the long tradition of reflective
practice in education, which affects the work of
individual professionals, and provides evalution of
innovative activities, for example involving new
technologies and race relations in the classroom. This
is a growing research field internationally. The course
will demostrate the power of action research as a
methodology that is very practical in educational
settings in transforming organizations. Structural,
strategic, individual and personal dimensions of action
research projects will be illuminated within a
perspective of building a community of practice to
transform the educational organizations.
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| AR 616 Futures and Foresight |
3 Credits |
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This module covers a range of conceptual and
methodological approaches to futures and foresight.
Broadly speaking, there are three types of question
we can ask ourselves about the future: What do we
think is likely to happen? What do we want (or not
want) to have happen? What could possibly happen -
whether we like it or not, and irrespective of likelihood
- and if it happened it could potentially be important
to the success or failure of our endeavours? These
three question types map loosely onto projective, normative
and exploratory approaches to futures and foresight.
Within the projective category we cover horizon scanning,
trends analysis and quantitative modelling. Within
the normative category we cover a range of
approaches to visioning, associated mapping of values,
priorities and goals, as well as back-casting. Within
the exploratory category we cover a range of
techniques for exploratory scenario development, both
inductive and deductive approaches, the two-axes
approach, cross impact analysis, morphological analysis,
and field anomaly relaxation. The 3 Horizons approach,
which can be used in multiple ways to delve into all
3 types of questions is also explored. We also cover
a range of participatory techniques that are useful across
these three spheres including the Delphi Technique, causal
loop diagrams, influence diagrams, fuzzy cognitive maps and
participatory development of system dynamics models.
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| AR 617 Special Topics in Management I |
3 Credits |
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This course will be based on the analysis of contemporary
issues, problems and changing paradigms in the world of
transformations. It will focus on the selected topics in the
process and transformation of
management knowledge in the dynamic business
environment. Some examples to selected topics are
digital transformation, creativity, innovation, agile
enterprise and teaming, holocracy, mindfulness, regional
development, the university of the future and global
action networks
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| Spring 2020-2021 |
Special Topics in Management I |
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| ECTS Credit: 12 ECTS (12 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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