Emerging Markets in the Global Knowledge-Based Economy (P01163)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : MSE-P-EMGKE

The course will deal with the relationships between Multi-National Corporations and domestic firms in emerging markets, looking at the strategies of both types of firms and how those strategies shape both collaboration and competition. We will focus on issues of technology transfer and the development of innovation capacity, to see how domestic players in emerging markets learn from their relationships with MNCs, gradually enhancing their ability to become independent players in the Global Knowledge-Based Economy. We will examine the dynamics of these relationships, looking at how they can involve both co-operation (during which the emerging market firms learn first how to imitate) and competition (as they learn how to innovate and begin to do more of the things that the MNC partners have reserved for themselves in the past). Examples will be mostly from the Pacific Rim but will also include the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe and possibly Latin America. Teaching materials will include excerpts from books and copies of articles and papers.

Entry Requirements

none

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Business Studies, (Management School and Economics, Schedule H)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Semester 1 (Blocks 1-2)

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 10 weeks

First Class Information

Date	Start	End	Room	Area	Additional Information
20/09/2006	10:00	12:00			Lecture theatre 5, Bristo Square

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Wednesday	10:00	12:00	Central

? Additional Class Information : Lecture to be held in Lecture Theatre 5, Bristo Square

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

Students will learn to identify and analyse knowledge management and innovation-related issues in real-world businesses in, or dealing with, emerging markets. They will learn to recognise and deal with perspectives and concerns relating to one of the most important aspects of the globalisation of business in emerging markets from two points of view: that of emerging market players and that of MNCs.