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MN50387: Managing in an international context

Follow this link for further information on academic years Academic Year: 2014/5
Further information on owning departmentsOwning Department/School: School of Management
Further information on credits Credits: 12
Further information on unit levels Level: Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7)
Further information on teaching periods Period: Academic Year
Further information on unit assessment Assessment Summary: CW 100%
Further information on unit assessment Assessment Detail:
  • Coursework 1 (CW 35%)
  • Coursework 2 (CW 65%)
Further information on supplementary assessment Supplementary Assessment: Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
Further information on requisites Requisites: Only available to students on the MSc in Advanced Management Practice.
Further information on descriptions Description: Aims:
The unit's aim is to expose students to contemporary analyses, debate, research, and management practice relating to the execution of business in an international context. In particular, the unit will focus on a range of aspects of firm-level strategy, structure and process in an international setting, including the managerial challenges and implications of market, cultural, institutional, social, political, and economic dynamics within an increasingly globalised business environment.

Learning Outcomes:
After completing the unit students will be able to:
* show an appreciation of the complexity of the international environment businesses have to operate in.
* understand the underlying patterns, motivations for and modes of international trade and investment.
* appreciate the role of national and supra-national organisations in the formation of international trade and investment policies.

Skills:

* Intellectual skills: ability to select a focus for a project, analysis and synthesis of information.
* Practical ability to analyse, identify and relate firm-level strategy to micro- and macro-level international business environments will be necessary and developed.
* Transferable/Key skills: research, ability to select a focus for a project, analysis and synthesis of information, structuring and writing a long essay.

Content:
Topics covered include: firm-level rationales for internationalization, mechanisms of internationalization, structure and management of international firms, the process and firm-level implications of globalisation, national market and cultural dynamics.
Further information on programme availabilityProgramme availability:

MN50387 is Compulsory on the following programmes:

School of Management
Notes:
* This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2014/15 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2015/16 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2014/15.
* Programmes and units are subject to change at any time, in accordance with normal University procedures.
* Availability of units will be subject to constraints such as staff availability, minimum and maximum group sizes, and timetabling factors as well as a student's ability to meet any pre-requisite rules.