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Seminar on Business Economics and Competition (12 Ects)
(1
º Sem
2018/2019)
Code:
03071
Acronym:
03071
Level:
2nd Cycle
Basic:
No
Teaching Language(s):
Portuguese
Friendly languages:
Be English-friendly or any other language-friendly means that UC is taught in a language but can either of the
following conditions:
1. There are support materials in English / other language;
2. There are exercises, tests and exams in English / other language;
3. There is a possibility to present written or oral work in English / other language.
1
6.0
0.0 h/sem
0.0 h/sem
0.0 h/sem
30.0 h/sem
0.0 h/sem
0.0 h/sem
0.0 h/sem
30.0 h/sem
120.0 h/sem
0.0 h/sem
150.0 h/sem
2
6.0
0.0 h/sem
0.0 h/sem
0.0 h/sem
14.0 h/sem
0.0 h/sem
0.0 h/sem
0.0 h/sem
14.0 h/sem
136.0 h/sem
0.0 h/sem
150.0 h/sem
Since year
2018/2019
Pre-requisites
Having concluded courses from the first-year of the master which sum at least 42 ECTS.
Objectives
This course aims to give students a thorough understanding of the process of developing research. Additionally, this curricular unit has two other objectives: 1) To contribute to the development of a project of a master dissertation/project in the scientific area of the program; 2) To allow students to have contact with seminars about topics related to Business Economics and Competition. These seminars provide examples of scientific work similar to what the students have to develop in their thesis.
Program
PC1 - Methodological topics associated with developing a research project 1.1 Types of thesis 1.2 Identifying the research questions and the research phases 1.3 Doing a literature review and identifying the main literature sources 1.4 Types and phases of empirical work in Economics 1.5 Citations and references 1.6 Plagiarism in scientific work 1.7 Writing a thesis 1.8 Oral presentation of a thesis PC2 - Research topics in Business Economics and Competition
Evaluation Method
Performance evaluation includes the following elements: - Synthetic group reports on seminars (20%); - Thesis project - written report + oral presentation (20%); - Literature Review - written report + oral presentation (20%); - Empirical analysis - written report + oral presentation (40%). In this course there is not a second period of assessment. This course does not have an exam due to its nature.
Teaching Method
Each student should acquire analytical, information gathering, written and oral communication skills, according to the established learning goals. The following teaching-learning methodologies will be used: 1. Expositional, to the presentation a set of reference guidelines. 2. Participatory, including analysis and problem workouts 3. Active, with the realization of individual and group works. 4. Self-study, related with autonomous work by the student
Observations
Basic Bibliographic
Thomson, W (2011). A Guide for the Young Economist, 2ª edição. MIT Press. Saunders, M., Lewis, P. e Thornhill (2015). Research Methods for Business Students, 7ª edição. Pearson Education. Fisher, C. (2010). Researching and Writing a Dissertation: An Essential Guide for Business Students, 3ª edição. Prentice Hall.
Complementar Bibliographic
Bryman, A. e Bell, E. (2015). Business Research Methods, 4ª edição. Oxford University Press.
