How are new institutions and policies legitimated? Who or what legitimates?
This PhD course introduces and explores how new institutions and policies are legitimated. The purpose of the PhD course is to contribute to PhD training through helping doctoral researchers understand how the institutions and policies that often shape societal behaviours emerge and are legitimated. It explores institutional theory within the umbrella concept of newness, aiding their understanding of the written and unwritten ‘rules of the game’.
The course will provide PhD researchers with theoretical and conceptual understanding of institutional theory, the emergence of institutions and policies, as well as training students to relate the concept to their own research agendas. The course will be based on the principle of complex problem solving, bringing in real life problems, to which the students find solutions. Attendees will have the opportunity to network with others on an international level. Several of the sessions will be peer led, further enhancing the skillsets of those attending and bringing together an active learning approach. The sessions will be delivered using a mixture of lecture-based and interactive teaching methods, including two group assignments and feedback to doctoral researchers on their identified issues and challenges.
This is a 5 ECTS PhD course. The course admits MAX 20 doctoral researchers.
Registered doctoral researchers will have full access to the course programme and material via course Intranet. Upon receiving the registration fee, each student will get an e-mail with log-in instructions. Any queries about course intranet shall be directed to the PhD Course Secretary.
Deadlines:
- DL1: Essay submission - August 02, 2021. Please go to application to start the application process.
- DL2: Essay acceptance – August 09, 2021
- DL3: Registration and payment of the course fee – August 16, 2021. Early registration is strongly encouraged.
Participation fee is 300 EUR. Each participant is responsible for his/her own travel and accommodation.
The Course is organised and delivered by the Adam Smith Business School, and hosted (in-person) and accredited by the Aalborg University Business School.
The faculty team is led by Prof Niall G. MacKenzie of the Adam Smith Business School in cooperation with his colleagues, Dr Jillian Gordon and Dr Dominic Chalmers.
The PhD Course is part of the LNETN project that is implemented by a consortium of four beneficiaries: Aalborg University (Denmark), Halmstad University (Sweden), University of Glasgow (Scotland) and University of Oulu (Finland).
Any queries about application, registration and administration, please contact the PhD Course Secretary.
