Managing Knowledge and Change in Organizations

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Students research, beginning with the concept of research itself and its various purposes, highlighting knowledge and how it is created in different disciplinary approaches. Exposes historical and philosophical underpinnings of how research is conceptualized, presented and implemented, including what constitutes information, knowledge and evidence. Introduces material that is in a traditional research design and methodology course; however, the emphasis uniquely focuses on knowledge creation, innovation, the nature of disciplinary knowledge and its impact on society. Explores the epistemological differences in problem identification and approaches to inquiry in the disciplinary perspectives of engineering, the sciences and in the social sciences.