Lecture: Information, Organization, and Management (Dr. Martin Hepp)

This is the Web site for the lecture

Information, Organization, and Management (12875)

held by Dr. Martin Hepp (mhepp(at)computer(dot)org)
at the University of Wuerzburg, Germany
during the Winter semester 2006/2007.

This is the Winter semester 2006/2007 section. For the most recent one, please visit http://www.heppnetz.de/teaching/iom/

Update April 30, 2007: The exam results are available on the bottom of this page.

Course Overview
This class will introduce the fundamental economic effects and theories that explain the diffusion of Electronic Business, especially new institutional economics, and map these to core concepts of management science. The overall learning goal of the course is an in-depth understanding of the interplay of economics, communication and information research, management science, and applied computer science; the underlying social and technical processes, and their implications for business and management.

Registration
Other than announced in the WISO guide and originally on this Web page, registration is handled by the SIS (Student Information System). The registration deadline is January 12, 2007 both for Bachelor and Diploma degree students.
Registration is mandatory. Late registrations are NOT possible!

Logistics
The class will be delivered as a block class with three stages:

Stage 1: November 10, 2006 - March 4, 2007: Self-study part - Read the class textbook (chapters 1 - 9).
Stage 2: March 7 - March 9, 2007: Classroom Instruction, 9.00 a.m. - 5.00 p.m.m CIP II, Sanderring (Participation mandatory!)
Stage 3: March 30, 2007: 12.:00 noon - 1.00 p.m. Exam (60 Minutes); classroom "Großer Hörsaal" (Neubaustraße 66).

You must have read the textbook prior to the beginning of the classroom instruction!

Textbook (mandatory)
Rolf Wigand, Arnold Picot, Ralf Reichwald: Information, Organization and Management
458 pp., John Wiley & Sons, 1997 (ISBN: 0471964549).

Exam
The exam will take place on Friday, March 30, 2007 from 12:00 noon - 1.00 p.m. (60 minutes) in the lecture hall "Großer Hörsaal" (Neubaustraße 66).

Study Guide

The Study Guide for the Exam is available here.

Credits
The class will qualify for credits as "Unternehmensmodelle" and thus as a lecture in General Management (Vorlesung Allgemeine BWL). After successfully completing this class, students can print a certificate at the SIS system, which will be honored by the Office of the Registrar (Pruefungskanzlei) as equivalent to the lecture "Unternehmensmodelle" for Bachelor and Diploma degree students. The procedure is explained in the following document:
http://www.wiinf.uni-wuerzburg.de/News_Infos/Anrechnungsdokumente/Anrechnungen_LN.pdf

The course is closely aligned with the textbook "Information, Organization and Management" by Rolf Wigand, Arnold Picot, and Ralf Reichwald (John Wiley & Sons, 1997 ISBN: 0471964549).

Class Schedule
Classes will be held according to the following schedule.

Date	Classroom	Time	Slides (PDF)	Reading assignment
Wednesday, March 7, 2007	CIP-II	9.00-10:30	see here	Chapter 1 in the textbook (pp. 1-16) Additional reading: Leonard E. Read: “I, Pencil. My Family Tree as told to Leonard E. Read”, Dec. 1958 http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/rdPncl1.html, PDF version: http://www.fee.org/pdf/books/I,%20Pencil%202006.pdf Wikipedia: Management http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Management Wikipedia: Taylorism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylorism Charles Babbage: Economy of Machinery and Manufactures http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/babbage/index.html Frederick Winslow Taylor: The Principles of Scientific Management, 1911. http://www.eldritchpress.org/fwt/taylor.html
Wednesday, March 7, 2007	CIP-II	10:45-12:15	see here	Chapter 2: „Market Dynamics and Competition: The Fundamental Role of Information“, pp. 17-55 Additional reading: Wikipedia: Principal-Agent Problem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal-agent_problem Wikipedia: Economic Calculation Problem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_calculation_problem Wikipedia: Ideas and Life of Friedrich Hayek http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hayek Wikipedia: Transaction Cost Theory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transaction_cost Wikipedia: Game Theory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_theory Wikipedia: Prisoner‘s Dilemma http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner's_dilemma
Wednesday, March 7, 2007	CIP-II	13:15-14:45		Chapter 2: „Market Dynamics and Competition: The Fundamental Role of Information“, pp. 17-55 -- continued --
Wednesday, March 7, 2007	CIP-II	15:00 - 16:30 16:45 - 17:30	see here	Chapter 3: „Fundamental Information and Communication Models“, pp. 57-95 Additional Reading: Radical Constructivism https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/citd/holtorf/3.8.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivist_epistemology Semiotics http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/semiotic.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiotics Shannon and Weaver http://www.cultsock.ndirect.co.uk/MUHome/cshtml/index.html Watzlawick, Beavin, Jackson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Watzlawick http://www.colorado.edu/communication/meta-discourses/Theory/watzlawick/ Schulz von Thun http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vier-Seiten-Modell (in German only) Speech Act Theory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_act Media Richness http://www.tcw.utwente.nl ...
Thursday, March 8, 2007	CIP-II	9:00 - 10:30 10:45 - 12:15	see here	Chapters 4 and 5, pp. 97-208
Thursday, March 8, 2007	CIP-II	13:15 - 14:45 15:00 - 16:00 16:30 - 17:30	see here	Chapters 6 and 7, pp. 209-309
Friday, March 9, 2007.	CIP-II	9:00 - 12:15		Chapter 8, pp. 311-367 Chapter 9, pp. 369-413
Friday, March 9, 2007	CIP-II	13:15 - 17:00		Exam recap See the study guide for details!

Exam results

Last four digits of student ID	Topic selected	Points	Grade
5551	2	14	2,7
0261	2	15,5	2,3
6337	1	13	3,0
4898	1	7	5,0
9014	1	15	2,3
0153	1	19	1,0
0884	2	12	3,3
7556	3	15	2,3
9071	1	13	3,0
8085	1	17	1,7
7926	1	12	3,3
7899	n/a	n/a	no show (fail)
5235	1	6	5,0
7370	1	16	2,0
7804	1	11	3,7
7471	3	7	5,0
6037	3	15,5	2,3
9621	n/a	n/a	no show (fail)
0828	3	9	4,0
8033	2	19	1,0
7983	3	7	5,0
1929	3	17	1,7
7970	n/a	n/a	no show (fail)
0302	n/a	n/a	no show (fail)
5487	1	7	5,0
4211	n/a	n/a	no show (fail)
4698	n/a	n/a	no show (fail)
9796	2	14,5	2,7
9781	n/a	n/a	no show (fail)
7729	1	18	1,3
8451	1	18	1,3
6954	1	2	5,0

See here for information on how to get credits in General Managament (ABWL) for this class.

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