Bachelor
2022/2023
Business and Management in Global Context
Type:
Compulsory course (Data Science and Business Analytics)
Area of studies:
Applied Mathematics and Information Science
Delivered by:
Big Data and Information Retrieval School
Where:
Faculty of Computer Science
When:
2 year, 1-4 module
Mode of studies:
offline
Open to:
students of one campus
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
8
Contact hours:
120
Course Syllabus
Abstract
An understanding of international business is essential for students in today's interdependent global world. This course will provide students with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to understand the global economic, political, cultural and social environment within which firms operate. It will examine the strategies and structures of international business and assess the special roles of an international business's various functions. It will also prepare students to formulate and execute strategies, plans, and tactics to succeed in international business ventures.
In-class exercises, mini-projects as well as homework and case studies will demonstrate real-world applications of international business and management concepts.
Learning Objectives
- Explain how the economic, political/legal, financial environments, and global trends affect international business operations
- Prepare students to be able to understand cultural, ethical and social issues for international business and suggest policies of corporate social responsibility and sustainable business practices.
- Discuss how cultural and behavioral differences influence countries business practices, and how these differences can be addressed using appropriate strategies.
- Develop ability to assess international trade and investment, multilateral organisations and regional integration and the global financial system.
- Forming an understanding of how firms develop international business strategies, enter markets and alliances.
- Give insight through frameworks, studies and examples of how businesses manage marketing and research & development, organisational structure and architecture, sourcing and the supply chain, information systems and human resources globally, regionally and domestically.
- Prepare students to assess project and change management practices in an international context.
- Provide an introduction to the major emerging digital technologies, and how to manage these into operation and become digital businesses internationally.
- Overall, prepare students to work within international context to make judgements on strategizing and managing operations in the global.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- demonstrate knowledge of, and the ability to assess, core institutions of international business and how firms manage on the global stage
- assess regional, cultural and institutional differences in how business is conducted globally
- apply core understandings, frameworks and management principles to specific business contexts
- formulate choices and decisions in international business strategy and operations
- operate as an informed employee in an international firm.
Course Contents
- Perspectives on globalization and international business
- Political, economic and legal environments
- Culture society, ethics and corporate social responsibility
- International trade and investment
- Global and regional integration and multilateral organisations
- The global financial system
- Strategy and the enterprise in international contexts
- Competitive strategy for international business
- Entry strategies, alliances and evolution
- Organisation of international business
- Marketing and R&D
- Global sourcing of production and services
- Global information systems management
- Managing international finance
- International dimensions of human resources management
- International project and change management
- Moving to global digital business
Assessment Elements
- 1-4th module home, class assignments, presentations, quizzes
- 2nd Module Midterm Test
- 3d module exam
- Exam
Interim Assessment
- 2022/2023 3rd module0.3* 3rd Module Exam +0.2* 2nd Module Midterm Test +0,5* 1-3 modules home, class assignments, essays, presentations, quizzes
- 2022/2023 4th module0.5 * Interim assessment (3 module) + 0.35 * Final Exam + 0.15* 4th module home, class assignments, essays, presentations, quizzes
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Global business management foundations, Willcocks, L. P., 2016
- Mike W Peng, Denis Y L Wang, & Yi Jiang. (2008). An institution-based view of international business strategy: a focus on emerging economies. Journal of International Business Studies, (5), 920. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsrep&AN=edsrep.a.pal.jintbs.v39y2008i5p920.936
- Mintzberg, H. (2009). Managing (Vol. 1st ed). San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=292939
- Peng, M. W. (2001). The resource-based view and international business. Journal of Management, 27(6), 803. https://doi.org/10.1177/014920630102700611
- Peng, M. W. (2012). Global business. South-Western.
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Bhagwati, J. (2007). In Defense of Globalization: With a New Afterword. Oxford University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsrep&AN=edsrep.b.oxp.obooks.9780195330939
- Dicken, P. (2015). Global Shift, Seventh Edition : Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy (Vol. Seventh edition). New York, New York: The Guilford Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=826942
- Hofstede, G. H., Hofstede, G. J., & Minkov, M. (2010). Cultures and Organizations : Software of the Mind: Intercultural Cooperation and Its Importance for Survival (Vol. 3rd ed). New York: McGraw-Hill. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=351480
- International business, Peng, M. W., 2011
- Laudon, K. C., & Laudon, J. P. (2012). Management information systems : managing the digital firm. Slovenia, Europe: Prentice Hall. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.BEEDD30B
- North, D. C. (DE-588)119307944, (DE-627)080115144, (DE-576)162401531. (2005). Understanding the process of economic change Douglass C. North. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edswao&AN=edswao.114940606
- Oshri, I., Kotlarsky, J., & Willcocks, L. (2015). The Handbook of Global Outsourcing and Offshoring 3rd Edition (Vol. 3rd edition). Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1331561
- Rugman, A. M., & Collinson, S. (2012). International Business (Vol. 6th ed). Harlow, UK: Pearson. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1417842
- Soskice, D. W., & Hall, P. A. (2001). Varieties of Capitalism : The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage. Oxford [England]: OUP Oxford. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=260445
- The outsourcing enterprise : from cost management to collaborative innovation, Willcocks, L. P., 2011
- Willcocks, L., & Lacity, M. C. (2012). The New IT Outsourcing Landscape : From Innovation to Cloud Services. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1074750
- БАРКОВ, С. А. (2018). Инновационная бюрократия. ECO, (2), 72–89. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=bsu&AN=128122605
- Вейнер Э. - Скрытая власть. Как разбогатевшие государства и влиятельные инвесторы контролируют весь мир - Издательство "Манн, Иванов и Фербер" - 2012 - 336с. - ISBN: 978-5-91657-433-3 - Текст электронный // ЭБС ЛАНЬ - URL: https://e.lanbook.com/book/62403
- Управление человеческими ресурсами в 2 ч. Часть 1 : учебник и практикум для академического бакалавриата / С. А. Барков [и др.] ; под редакцией С. А. Баркова, В. И. Зубкова. — Москва : Издательство Юрайт, 2019. — 183 с. — (Бакалавр. Академический курс). — ISBN 978-5-9916-7303-7. — Текст : электронный // Образовательная платформа Юрайт [сайт]. — URL: https://urait.ru/bcode/433211 (дата обращения: 28.08.2023).