ADVANCED EXECUTIVE EDUCATION PROGRAMME

The Advanced Executive Education programme (AdvEE) aims to provide a comprehen-sive view and practical means to carry out research in economic sciences and business administration, focusing on research paradigms and methods, but bringing in also key to-pics of academic writing, publishing and research ethics. Moreover, an outlook is provided to how to plan, organize and manage individual research projects.

The AdvEE programme contains total of 26 days of teaching and workshops during two study years including first individual presentations of research proposals.

The programme is a hands-on introduction to research methods and process as a whole, as well as to the planning and management of individual research projects. The participants will learn to initiate, design and write research plans and have an opportunity to prepare personal research proposals for review and discussion.

The modes of teaching include lectures, exercises, case presentations, group discussions, workshops and research proposal oriented consultative individual guidance.

The applicant to AdvEE programme must possess sufficient English skills in order to be able to follow teaching and instruction; must have completed a relevant Master of Science degree, or an equivalent degree giving eligibility for corresponding university studies in the country.

ADVANCED EXECUTIVE EDUCATION PROGRAMME

01a INTRODUCTION TO RESEARCH IN ECONOMIC SCIENCES AND BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

October 2015; 2 days of teaching and workshops in Shanghai• Philosophy of science• Research process, design and structure

01b RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES

October 2015; 3 days of teaching and workshops in Shanghai• Different research approaches, e.g. qualitative vs. quantita-

tive, narrative, deductive vs. inductive, database searches• Theory formulation; empirical vs. theoretical

02 DATA COLLECTION AND RESEARCH ETHICS

January 2016; 3 days of teaching and workshops in Shanghai• Mapping the research field• Empirical contexts, factor model, clustering etc.• Testing, verification, measurements, analysis, generalization

etc.• Ethical codes of research; good scientific practice and pro-

cedures

03 RESEARCH CONTEXTS AND FRAMEWORKS

March 2016; 3 days of teaching and workshops in Shanghai• Creating significance: What is scientific contribution?

What is interesting research?• Schools of thought in strategy and entrepreneurship rese-

arch

04 LITERATURE REVIEW AND ACADEMIC THEME/WRI-TING ALIGNMENT

June 2016; 3 days of teaching and workshops in Oulu• Purpose of literature reviews• Systematic review process• Scientific argumentation

05 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY I

August 2016; 3 days of teaching and workshops in Shanghai• Research paradigms, i.e. positivistic, hermeneutic, postmo-

dern etc.• Choice of a paradigm and methods

06 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY II

November 2016; 3 days of teaching and workshops in Shanghai• Ethnography and interventionism in knowledge creation• Case and field studies• Institutional theory in organizational research• Survey as a research method

07 PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT OF RESEARCH PROJECTS

February 2017; 3 days of teaching and workshops in Shanghai• Research process as an everyday practice, with examples• Research collaboration and communities• The process of preparing and revising research proposals,

with examples

08 RESEARCH PROPOSAL WRITING AND REVIEW

May 2017; 3 days of teaching and workshops in Oulu• Preparing and presenting of individual proposals• Review and discussion

THE OUTLINE OF THE AdvEE PROGRAMME WITH A TENTATIVE SCHEDULE

Further InformationOulu Business School Martti Ahtisaari InstituteP.O. BOX 460090014 UNIVERSITY OF OULUwww.oulubusinessschool.fi

Programme director, EMBA Antti Kauppilaantti.kauppila@oulu.fi

Professor, director, PhD Veikko Seppänenveikko.seppanen@oulu.fi

Professor, dean, PhD Petri Sahlströmpetri.sahlstrom@oulu.fi

Responsible TeachersDean, professor Petri SahlströmDean for education, professor Pauliina UlkuniemiDocent, senior research fellow Petri AhokangasProfessor Janne JärvinenProfessor Tuija MainelaProfessor Vesa PuhakkaProfessor Veikko SeppänenPostdoctoral researcher Xiaotian Zhang