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Postgraduate Programme and Module Handbook 2023-2024 (archived)

Module BUSI43M15: Globalising Strategic Management (Taught)

Department: Management and Marketing

BUSI43M15: Globalising Strategic Management (Taught)

Type Tied Level 4 Credits 15 Availability Not available in 2023/24 Module Cap
Tied to N1KS17
Tied to N1KR17
Tied to N1N317
Tied to N1N417

Prerequisites

  • None.

Corequisites

  • None.

Excluded Combination of Modules

  • Globalising Strategic Management (Online)

Aims

  • To provide a comprehensive overview of the concepts and practices related to managing in a globally volatile, complex, dynamic environment within which organisations, national and international institutions and individuals interact
  • To build on the core modules and provide 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
  • Administrative heritage, change management and strategic inertia
  • 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
  • Review of Strategy - Strategic Innovation
  • Inter-firm collaboration: strategic alliances
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Cross-cultural strategic management
  • Leadership and global management

Learning Outcomes

Subject-specific Knowledge:
  • By the end of the module students should:
  • 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 tension.
Subject-specific Skills:
  • By the end of the module students should:
  • 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.
Key Skills:
  • Effective written communication skills
  • Planning, organising and time management skills
  • Problem solving and analytical skills
  • The ability to use initiative
  • Advanced skills in the interpretation of data
  • Advanced computer literacy skills

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 taught input, groupwork, case studies and discussion, supported by guided reading and specially-written self-study material.
  • The summative assessment of the module is designed to test the acquisition and articulation of knowledge and critical understanding, and skills of application and interpretation within the business context.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Activity Number Frequency Duration Total/Hours
Workshops (a combination of taught input, groupwork, case studies and discussion), timetabled in blocks 28
Preparation and reading 122
Total 150

Summative Assessment

Component: Written Assignment Component Weighting: 100%
Element Length / duration Element Weighting Resit Opportunity
Individual written report, based on the analysis of a case study 4,000 words maximum 100% Same

Formative Assessment:

Students will receive feedback on their contributions in class.


Attendance at all activities marked with this symbol will be monitored. Students who fail to attend these activities, or to complete the summative or formative assessment specified above, will be subject to the procedures defined in the University's General Regulation V, and may be required to leave the University