- Teacher: Tim Born
- Teacher: Stefanie Ehrhart
- Teacher: Andrea Naurath
- Teacher: Christine Riedmann-Streitz
- Teacher: Henk van Elst
- Teacher: Barbara Vossel
- Teacher: Dirk Wagner
- Teacher: Henk van Elst
Change & Innovation
- Socio-technical and socio-economic drivers of innovation and change
- Business possibilities for shaping innovation and change, in particular the strategic and organizational integration of different innovation perspectives (e. g. product and process innovation with the innovation of distribution)
- Innovation and change as management task
- The basic methods of innovation and change management
- Business development
- Case studies
- Teacher: Björn Bohnenkamp
- Teacher: Christine Riedmann-Streitz
Students who have successfully participated in this module will be able to:
- identify the cultural fundament of political, social and economic practice.
- recognize the polysemy of the term culture and classify its various definitions according to their respective viewpoint (narrow, extended closed, open) and their adscription to a discipline (e.g. cultural anthropology, economy, sociology, cultural geography).
- applying postmodern theory (identity, critical theory), describe culture as a social construct.
- critically reflect on their own culture from the point of view of economic geography and cultural anthropology.
- apply methods of cultural analysis (e.g. symbolic meanings, rituals, myths, vision, style),
- illustrate and reconstruct elements of the own culture from a socio-historic perspective
- Teacher: Francisco Javier Montiel Alafont
Interactive lecture with case studies, role plays and focused group work.
Content description:
- Fundamentals of intercultural communication (e.g. meaning, language, interaction, culture as communication)
- Semiotics and linguistics of intercultural business communication (e.g. identity, otherness, discourse, representation)
- Intercultural change and leadership (e.g. organizational change, storytelling, leadership styles)
- Teacher: Michael Poerner
Studierende, die dieses Modul erfolgreich absolviert haben, sind in der Lage:
•die Kulturgebundenheit der Managementpraxis zu erkennen und zu operationalisieren,
•die Vielfältigkeit des Kulturbegriffs zu erkennen und seine verschiedenen Definitionen in Hinblick auf die Ausrichtung des Begriffs (z.B. erweitert, offen, geschlossen) sowie auf die ausgehende Disziplin (z.B. Wirtschaftswissen-schaften, Kulturanthropologie, Sozialwissenschaften) zu klassifizieren,
•Kultur im Sinne der postmodernen Soziologie (Identitätsbegriff, Ideologiekritik) als gesellschaftliches Konstrukt darzustellen,
•die eigene Kultur aus wirtschaftsgeographischer und kulturanthropologischer Sicht kritisch zu reflektieren und Methoden der Kulturanalyse für betriebswirtschaftliche Fragestellungen anzuwenden (Symbolik, Ritualisierungen, Mythen, Visionen, Stile u.a.),
•Komponenten der eigenen Kultur (Zivilisation, Religion, Ethik, Gedächtnis, Identität u.a.) vor dem sozial-historischen Hintergrund zu rekonstruieren.
- Teacher: Francisco Javier Montiel Alafont