Module BUSI4A815: GLOBAL STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT (FT)

Department: Management and Marketing

BUSI4A815: GLOBAL STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT (FT)

Tied To

• N1K017: Business Administration (12 month Full Time) (see Postgraduate Handbook 2016-2017 for details)
• N1KC17: Business Administration [Finance] (full time) (see Postgraduate Handbook 2010-2011 for details)

Pre-requisites

Corequisites

Excluded Combinations

Aims

• To introduce students to the concepts and practices related to managing in a globally volatile, complex, dynamic environment within which organisations, national and international institutions and individuals interact. The elective is designed to be an advanced strategic management course presenting material that is highly contemporary.

Content

• Globalisation forces, drivers, challenges to organisational forms and processes.
• The evolution of new organisational forms and the changing management landscape affecting all sizes of firms from SMEs to TNCs.
• Internationalisation theories of the firm revisited - challenges for strategic management.
• Networked, globally linked, adaptable international organisations: beyond strategy, structure, systems - Intra-firm collaboration.
• Typologies of MNCs - traditional strategies for international firms contested.
• Tensions in managing integration and responsiveness.
• Inter-firm collaboration: strategic alliances.
• Mergers and Acquisitions.
• Understanding latecomer MNEs from emerging markets.

Learning Outcomes

• Upon successful completion of the module, the students will:
• have developed a more critical understanding of the dynamics of globalisation on strategic management;
• understand the issues involved in managing change and strategic inertia;
• have explored the challenges of strategically managing innately more complex, diverse and uncertain organisations within a global context;
• have developed reflexivity to comprehend theoretical underpinning and intellectual standing in the evaluation of the material being analysed;
• have an awareness of the range of problems involved in the interpretation of complex, ambiguous, conflicting and often incomplete material and the paradoxical nature of managing such contradictions and tensions.

• Upon successful completion of the module, the students will:
• be able to conceptualise about strategy from different perspectives;
• have improved their critical thinking and analytical skills to question 'taken for granted' assumptions about strategy and management.

• Written communication; planning, organising and time management; problem solving and analysis; using initiative; computer literacy.

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

• Learning outcomes will be met through a combination of lectures, groupwork, case studies and discussion, supported by guided reading. The written assignment will test students' understanding of relevant concepts and their ability to apply and interpret what they have learned to the analysis of a particular issue in depth.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Summative Assessment

Formative Assessment

Group presentation and 1000-word essay. Students will also receive feedback on their contributions to class and group discussions.