Corporate Strategy (P00441)

? Credit Points : 10 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : SBE-P-P00441

This course builds on the compulsory course in Strategic Management and integrates other knowledge from your previous learning and experience to identify and address the strategic concerns of firms.

Entry Requirements

? This course is not available to visting students.

? Pre-requisites : PGs only

? Costs : None

Subject Areas

Home subject area

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

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Block 5 only

? Contact Teaching Time : 20 hour(s) per week for 1 weeks

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding of:
- the complexity of strategic management in firms.
- the traditional approaches of corporate strategic analysis.
- the tools of strategy analysis and their limitations.
- strategy alternatives for firms.
- different perspectives for managing strategically
- the current issues being faced by managers in developing internationally.

Cognitive Skills:
- the ability to manage and analyse relevant information about firms in a clear, sound and explicit way.
- the ability to use management concepts to produce persuasive conclusions about real firms.
- ability to apply theories and models to new environments and contexts
- ability to evaluate and critique business theories and models.

Key Skills:
- ability to analyse complex business situations
- skills of argument development and persuasion
- group working and presentation skills
- the ability to communicate analyses and conclusions clearly and persuasively.

Subject Specific Skills:
By the end of the course students will have learned
- useful approaches of strategic analysis. and their limitations.
- knowledge of strategy alternatives for firms in different contexts.
- different perspectives for managing strategically

Planned Student Learning Experiences
- learning from each other in the group situations in the preparation of case studies.
- learning the process of argumentation towards a senior-management type decision
- presenting at a senior level.
- in interactive plenary sessions, to learn from each other and from the teacher's input.