Module Catalogue 2024/25

Pre Requisite Comment

N/A

Co Requisite Comment

None

Aims

This module offers an opportunity for students to develop knowledge and understanding of multi-level processes involved in managerial practice and international business strategy formulation and implementation, specifically:

• To provide students with an advanced appreciation of the concept and practice of strategy within organisations operating across country borders.
• To provide students with a critical understanding of various activities and models of international strategy.
• To provide students with a critical understanding of alternative perspectives and ways of thinking about and ‘doing’ strategy.
• To provide students with critical awareness of the range of forces that influence the formulation and implementation of international strategies.

Outline Of Syllabus

This module is taught through lectures and seminars reflecting a mix of formal teaching and more informal student-centred elements. The emphasis is on the student to study the relevant literature and to augment their knowledge through their reading and active contribution to the module.

The syllabus typically includes topics such as:
• Strategic choice of integration and responsiveness in internationalizing strategy
• Strategy and emerging market multinationals
• Leveraging knowledge across country borders
• Corporate Social Responsibility on a global scale
• Mergers and acquisitions for global strategy
• International strategic alliances
• Role of the international subsidiary

Intended Knowledge Outcomes

By the end of the module, students should be able to:

1. Apply theory to practice through identifying key activities and potential problems involved in core areas of international strategy in an organisation.
2. Apply appropriate perspectives, tools and techniques of international strategy, to critically analyse and evaluate the key strategic issues facing organisations.

Intended Skill Outcomes

By the end of the module, students should be able to:

1. Diagnose organisational situations and recommend alternative choices in developing and implementing international strategy.
2. Conduct secondary research to identify relevant sources of information.

Teaching Rationale And Relationship

The lectures provide a framework to support student centred learning of fundamentals of international strategy in the seminars. The students will study a selection of cases to enable them to apply the perspectives, tools and techniques of international strategy and to analyse the key strategic issues and problems facing companies in a global arena. The pedagogic design of the module scaffolds student learning towards achievement of the learning outcomes through the written assignment.
Students develop skills in the use of qualitative databases (such as NEXIS and ORBIS) and use of data as evidence to support their arguments.

Assessment Rationale And Relationship

The assessment method ensures that students have the opportunity to demonstrate their individual understanding of the core ideas and common techniques associated with the practice of international strategy.

General Notes

N/A