BE885-7-SU-CO:
The Management of Innovation and Organizational Change
2024/25
Essex Business School
Colchester Campus
Summer
Postgraduate: Level 7
Current
Tuesday 22 April 2025
Friday 27 June 2025
10
11 April 2024
Requisites for this module
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MBA N20012 The Essex MBA,
MBA N20E24 The Essex MBA,
MBA N20E36 The Essex MBA,
MBA N20EJS The Essex MBA
This module provides a comprehensive introduction to the management of innovation and organizational change. This new offering is aimed specifically at MBA students who may be responsible for innovation projects in a wide range of organizational settings.
This module will provide students with the analytic frameworks, diagnostic tools and communication skills required for the management of innovation.
The aims of this module are:
- To introduce MBA students to the management of innovation and organizational change.
- To develop analytic and practical skills relevant to the management of innovation.
By the end of this module, students will be expected to be able to:
- To understand contemporary theories of innovation management and organizational change.
- To understand and use a range of analytic frameworks and diagnostic tools required for the management of innovation and organizational change.
- To develop stakeholder management, communication and constituency-building skills that are relevant to innovation and the implementation of organizational change .
Syllabus
- Innovation and change as major themes in management and organization studies.
- Social process perspectives on the management of innovation and change.
- Case study analysis of innovation and change.
- Analysing project failure and the non-spread of innovation.
- Stakeholder management and socio-technical systems analysis.
- Role-taking, role switching and distributed change management.
- Managing innovation across organizational and institutional boundaries.
This module will be delivered over the course of a single week via:
- Two 3-hour sessions per day.
The module is delivered in a range of different modes, mixing formal lectures, seminars with high levels of student engagement in discussion and intensive group work. Full details of the taught content, module resources and delivery modes will be provided in the module outline and moodle pages.
This module does not appear to have any essential texts. To see non - essential items, please refer to the module's
reading list.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
| Coursework / exam |
Description |
Deadline |
Coursework weighting |
| Coursework |
Group case study presentation |
16/05/2025 |
30% |
| Coursework |
2,500 word essay |
27/05/2025 |
70% |
Additional coursework information
- An individual 2,500 case- or work-based assignment.
The assignment invites students to analyse the management of innovation in an organisational setting. The emphasis will be on the use and application of analytic frameworks and diagnostic tools taught on the module. The analysis will also highlight the strategic choices available to those responsible for the management of innovation and ‘change management’ projects.
Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
Reassessment
Module supervisor and teaching staff
Dr Martin Harris, email: martinh@essex.ac.uk.
Dr Martin Harris & Dr Pasi Ahonen
ebsmba@essex.ac.uk
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Dr Lorenzo Todorow Di San Giorgio
University College London
Lecturer
Available via Moodle
No lecture recording information available for this module.
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