Models & Methods in Strategic Management Course at University of Toronto
Joseph L. Rotman School of Management at University of Toronto
MGT 3090 Models & Methods in Strategic Management
The seminar has the major aim of building the skill and self-confidence of participants as (a) developers and creators, (b) users and (c) critics of models in the social and organizational sciences. Accordingly, the seminar is divided up into two parts. Part I (Conceptual Models and Methods) builds on the classic text of Lave and March (Introduction to Models for the Social Sciences) to develop basic intuitions about how to put together mathematical and meta-mathematical models of decisions, exchange, adaptation and diffusion. The second part (Statistical Models and Methods) introduces the method of moments and the method of maximum likelihood as the foundation for statistical models frequently used by researchers in strategic management.