Degree Project in Management

Course Director: Laurence Romani

The aim of this course is to support you in the development and execution of an academic research, the evaluation and utilisation of academic knowledge and the defence of your academic work: your bachelor thesis. This research must deal with management and/ or organisation studies.

The finalisation and defense of your thesis is done in the framework of this course. Your thesis must be submitted: the date TBA and defended by: the date TBA.

Thesis projects are conducted in a group of two students. There is no exception. This means you need to have one thesis partner. However, your thesis partner can be in another specialisation (e.g. Accounting or Marketing). In the latter case, your thesis topic will determine from which course you receive a supervisor and where you defend your thesis (e.g. in Degree Project in Management or e.g. in Marketing). If you receive a supervisor from another specialisation but are registered as a student in the Management specialisation, you will receive your specialisation in management.

The course builds on three parts:

1. Part 1 helps you to start (define what is a research project, a research question, assign a supervisor) and introduces you to literature search engines and data collection methods.
2. During part 2, you receive group supervision (together with other students) and meet regularly with your assigned supervisor and fellow students in the group.
3. Part 3 is your thesis defense and opposition.

Course administrator: Bernalee.Karlsson.Anthony@hhs.se

The intended learning objectives of this course are threefold:

1. learn the craft of doing an academic research. This learning is developed conjointly with tutoring, classes and your own research work. It is then demonstrated in the manuscript of your bachelor thesis.
2. learn how to critically evaluate knowledge. This learning is developed during feedback sessions in your group supervision as well as individual thesis evaluation(s) and demonstrated in your evaluation of a bachelor thesis, when you oppose it.
3. learn the impact of academic knowledge on management. By developing your own research based on academic knowledge, you learn how to translate academic content into actionable knowledge for management and organizations. This learning is demonstrated in the thesis' section: Implications for practice.

To begin writing the Degree Project during the fall or spring semester in the third year of study, the student must, no later than in the beginning of that fall or spring semester, have passed at least one of the two courses (BE0152/BE0153) within the specialization in which the project is to be written and also have fulfilled all course obligations (for instance, assignments and project work) except for the final written exam in the second course within that specialization.

Mark Saunders, Philip Lewis and Adrian Thornhill (2023 ) Research Methods for Business Students (9th edition), Harlow: Pearson Education.

Assigned readings for class preparation (e.g. chapters 2, 3, etc) refer to this edition of the book.

This book will be your companion during your entire research project and thesis writing. It contains the answers and recommendations that you need.

Previous editions of the book offer a comparable content and would also be appropriate as course literature.

You must fulfill each of these course components to pass TBE151

• Attend all mandatory attendance classes (see schedule, classes marked MA: Mandatory Attendance)
• Submit and pass your thesis proposal
• Submit your individual evaluation of one bachelor thesis
• Submit your thesis (and implications for practice)
• Defend your thesis
• Oppose a thesis

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