PhD Courses

Digital business and industrial dynamics
(7,5 ects)

Fully booked
Runs between February and March 2021

This course provides an overview of the subject Digital Business with a particular focus on industrial dynamics, i.e. the competitive implications for firms and industries. In doing so, it prepares the doctoral student for performing research within the subject of digital business.

The course begins with a background and introduction to digital business. The following sessions cover how various academic fields within management dealt with the topic previously. Each session covers a couple of central contributions to digital business within a certain field, e.g. industrial dynamics or innovation studies. Explicit attention is devoted to the identification of current gaps in research and how doctoral students can formulate research questions related to addressing these gaps.

On completion of the course, the students will be able to:

1. Obtain an overview of the field of digital business and understand different strands of literature that deal with the topic

2. Identify gaps in current research and formulate research questions related to these gaps

3. Critically evaluate contributions to the field of digital business

For more information about the course and instructions on how to register, please contact christian.sandstrom@ju.se.

Introduction to
Digital Media Analytics
(4 ects)

Fully booked
Runs between April and June 2021

This course aims to provide students with an introduction and overview of the method of Digital Media Analytics and how it has, and can be, applied in industrial economics and business research. More specifically, the course covers the following aspects:

• The emergence of Digital Media Analytics in industrial economics and business research

• Data collection using Digital Media Analytics

• Data preparation using Digital Media Analytics

• Data analysis using Digital Media Analytics

• Different forms of research contributions that Digital Media Analytics enable

On completion of the course, the student will be able to:

1. Demonstrate a broad knowledge of the emergence of Digital Media Analytics in industrial economics and business research, including its contemporary development

2. Identify strategies for capturing and analyzing complex empirical phenomena using Digital Media Analytics

3. Reflect critically on the nature of digital data and ethical approaches to these forms of data

4. Reflect on how Digital Media Analytics can be used to contribute to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals

The course will be organized via Zoom and through four interactive seminars. The first seminar will take place at the beginning of April and the last seminar at the beginning of June.

For more information about the course and instructions on how to register, please contact christofer.laurell@indek.kth.se or visit this link.

This course is sponsored by the Nordic Academy of Management's Doctoral Initiative 2020-2021.

Strategies, Digitisation and Networks
(7,5 ects)

Fully booked
Runs between April and June 2021

This course links research on business relations with research on digitalization to create an understanding of how industrial markets are affected and change or need to be changed by the effects of digitalization. The course is divided into four themes:

• Interconnectivity, interdependence and networks – a theoretical background

• Strategies from a network perspective

• Digitally constructed networks and digital businesses

• Future research – where is the new research frontier

On completion of the course, the student will be able to:

1. Reflect on the roles that digitization plays in an interconnected business context and the effects on strategy

2. Compare and discuss theoretical foundations, assumptions and changes to these foundations in the intersection between networks, digitalization and strategy

3. Practically apply ideas on digitalization, networks and strategies as well as being able to relate them to own research interests

For more information about the course and instructions on how to register, please contact sabine.gebert-persson@fek.uu.se or visit this link.

This course is sponsored by the Nordic Academy of Management's Doctoral Initiative 2020-2021.