Students understand the goals of the course. Students finalize the course outline. Introductions to each other and to the field. Review of the course outline as a plan for the course. Suggestions for revisions to the course outline.
Students understand organizing as a response to market failures.
They understand key points in the organization failures tradition. They understand organizational structure as a management design decision. Students understand the basic dynamics of legitimacy and authority as macro behavioral process. Students can apply these points to an actual organization of their own choosing. Basic Challenges of Organizational Design, ch 2 in Jones.