Theories of Business Informatics
Organization and Assessment
Teachers and Tutors
Online platform
MS Teams (needed MUNI Office account).
The link to the team is here
Expected
learning outcomes
- Exploration
of the nature of theory and types of theories in business and management research.
- Present,
explain, and critically examine theories used in business informatics research, their use, and the contested issues.
- Evaluate different business informatics theories, choose one, synthesize, and use that for research or application.
Major learning activities
- The
course combines different teaching methods where the purpose is to engage the
students in discussions and critical thinking.
- The
employed teaching methods are anchored in the flipped classroom and case-based
learning (with an international diversity of cases).
- The
focus will also be on pre-lecture quizzes, seminar activities, student
presentations, and active discussion in this course.
- Students
will give presentations (in groups of two) of relevant applications of
theories in research and practice and different international contexts.
- Students will be prepared to write a research proposal and orally present the early version.
Assessment
The assessment of
this course is based on four activities.
- First, you must study the reading
material before each session and attend the pre-class online quiz. 10% of your credit will be assigned based on
the achieved mark in the quiz. Another 10% will be assigned based on your
active participation during the discussion in the lecture session. Overall, 20%
will be accounted for this assignment.
- Second,
groups of two students must be
created by the end of October. Students must make their team
and
inform Ahad of the team formation. Each group has to choose a topic from the list (see
course material in the interactive syllabi, topics#4,5,6). Otherwise, one topic will be assigned to each group randomly.
Each group
has to choose an academic paper related to the associated theory. Then, the group will
prepare a
paper presentation on their chosen topic. This will include describing
an
application of the chosen theory in a domain, conceptualization, and
operationalization of the theory, method, limitations, etc. Applications
of the
theory in international contexts and discussing the potential
differences in
different contexts (e.g., technological, social) are highly appreciated.
The
associated group will get 30% of the course credit for this activity.
The presentation will be assessed by Ahad and also peers based on
the a) quality of the paper
- Third, the same group above shall prepare a research proposal and submit it to Ahad. This will include presenting a research or practice problem and suggesting a theory to solve the problem. The proposal can be a foundation for your thesis that you must enroll in the following semester. The deadline to submit up to three topics to Ahad is the end of October. One topic will be confirmed by Ahad (early submissions are welcome, so you will have more time to develop the proposal). Students must orally present their ongoing research proposal in the classroom on the 13th and 20th of December. They must also submit the final proposal by 10th February. The presentation will help you get timely feedback on your proposal and develop a quality research proposal. Sharing the work in progress with Ahad for early feedback is recommended. This assignment has 50% of the credit. The following template must be used to prepare the proposal. If some headings are not applicable, you can delete it.
To sum up, the
share of each assignment in your final mark is as
follows. To pass the course, you must achieve at least 50% of the points
from each part. Meanwhile, you cannot skip some assignments.
- Pre-Class Online Quizzes
and Class Discussion: 20% (10% each)
- Paper summary and presentation:
30%
- Research Proposal presentation and report submission: 50%
- Active participation: Extra 10%
- A >= 90 points
- B >= 80 points
- C >= 70 points
- D >= 60 points
- E >= 55 points