Business and Management in Global Context 1

2024/2025

Type: Minor

Delivered by: Big Data and Information Retrieval School

Open to: students of all HSE University campuses

Instructors: Elena Dimova, Vasily Goncharenko

Language: English

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
Managing international finance

Assessment Elements

In-class and take-home written assignments, presentations, quizzes (1-2 modules)
Attendance, class activity & participation in class discussions (1-2 modules)
1st module midterm written assessment
Exam (covering topics of the 1-2 modules)
Exam (covering topics of the 1-2 modules)

Interim Assessment

2024/2025 2nd module
0.15 * 1st module midterm written assessment + 0.1 * Attendance, class activity & participation in class discussions (1-2 modules) + 0.4 * Exam (covering topics of the 1-2 modules) + 0.35 * In-class and take-home written assignments, presentations, quizzes (1-2 modules)

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
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Authors

Dimova Elena Anatolevna

Course Syllabus