Postgraduate Course: Global Strategic Management: Issues and Perspectives (CMSE11128)
Course Outline
| School | Business School |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 15 |
ECTS Credits | 7.5 |
| Summary | We will be addressing broadly the issues in the textbook mentioned below on Global Strategy and Management; elucidating the implications of current IB theories for Strategy, providing detailed coverage of a number of highly international company case studies. |
| Course description |
Aims, Nature, Context:
We will be looking at the question of when companies need more aggressive international strategies; the issue of global vs regional vs national strategies; and at how these issues differ for a range of sectors. We will be exploring literature and readings on global / regional / semi-global strategy; on international configurations currently pursued by companies. We will examine the main international modes of entry: green-field site, international joint ventures and strategic alliances and international mergers and acquisitions. The option is research-based, drawing on the lecturer's worldwide research and also several sector studies of the strategies of top world wide players in several sectors. In addition to exploring cases, the course will make use of globally orientated databases such as Thomson One Banker (subject to budgets) and applying such approaches in group projects, each focusing on particular sectors. Current option courses in international business would also be complementary, but the main aim is to home in on the strategic implications for large companies.
Student Learning Experience:
Tutorial/seminar hours represent the minimum total live hours - online or in-person - a student can expect to receive on this course. These hours may be delivered in tutorial/seminar, lecture, workshop or other interactive whole class or small group format. These live hours may be supplemented by pre-recorded lecture material for students to engage with asynchronously.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | It will be assumed that you have a foundation in strategy-related and/or international business-related courses and/or other relevant experience.
For Business School PG students only, or by special permission of the School. Please contact the course secretary. |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Appraise the diversity of contexts which multinationals span and their conflicting implications for firms' behaviour.
- Understand how today's multinationals create competitive advantage through the pursuit of 'transnational' strategies, and regional strategies; how they implement those strategies by adopting innovative organizational forms; the issues they face in managing the change process.
- Evaluate the challenges posed by players from emerging markets for Western multinationals, through an identification of distinctive features of their strategies, and by analysing Western firms' responses internationally and in emerging markets.
- Understand how multinationals manage innovation globally as well as the problems they face.
- Assess the issues multinationals face in developing and implementing sustainable development policies & Understand the critical issues and success factors in the post-acquisition phase of cross-border mergers and acquisitions.
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Reading List
| Global Strategic Management, Philippe Lasserre, Palgrave Macmillan; 3rd edition (2012). ISBN-13: 978-0230293816. |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
1. In-depth knowledge on complex strategic and organisational problems that multinational firms face in today's global markets.
2. Ability to critically appraise the multiple facets of issues dealt with in the course.
3. Ability to research and apply concepts and arguments in the field of global strategy and management to analyse empirical problems.
4. Problem-solving and decision-making skills.
5. Written communication skills.
6. Team-working skills. |
| Additional Class Delivery Information |
This course is wholly delivered in the flexible learning week of semester 2. |
| Keywords | IBEM-GSM |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof Chris Carr
Tel: (0131 6)50 6307
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Course secretary | Mrs Fionna Grant
Tel: (0131 6)51 3028
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