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Corso di laurea magistrale Economia aziendale
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International Management

Corso di studio: Laurea Magistrale in  Economia Aziendale (sede di Udine)    a.a. 2015/2016


DENOMINAZIONE INSEGNAMENTO/Course title

International Management

Lingua dell’insegnamento: Inglese

Crediti e ore di lezione: 6 CFU - 48 ore di lezione

Moduli: NO

Settore scientifico disciplinare: SECS-P/08

Docente: Maria Chiarvesio

Indirizzo email: maria.chiarvesio@uniud.it

Pagina web personale: http://people.uniud.it/page/maria.chiarvesio

 

PREREQUISITI E PROPEDEUTICITÀ/Requirements:

Knowledge acquired in the course of Business strategy and International economics are considered as useful pre-requisite

 

CONOSCENZE E ABILITÀ DA ACQUISIRE/Knowledge and skills:

Globalization opens many opportunities and threats which, to be managed, ask managers and entrepreneurs to deal with a growing number of decision about strategies across national boundaries. The course aims at providing a conceptual framework to get oriented and work in the international business context.

The course objective is to develop students knowledge about the fundamental concepts of doing business in an international environment, where the specific context poses numerous challenges to firm’s strategies.

At the end of the course the student should be able to:

  • Understand the strategic dimension of international business including the global value chain configuration
  • Incorporate skills and knowledge about strategy and marketing in the international business context
  • Understand the growing importance of emerging markets for business strategies
  • Appreciate differences within entry modes in international markets
  • Apply theories and practices to concrete business cases
  • Assess the drivers of firms’ international performances
  • Discuss with a critical approach real situations
  • Integrate the knowledge acquired in other courses in order to solve management issues within an international context

 

PROGRAMMA/Course description

The course will focus on the fundamental concepts of the international business environment, on the role of international forces, on international strategies and on basic issues of international marketing.

Main topics of the course will be:

-           Actors of the international business environment

-           Culture in international business

-           Strategy and organization in international markets

-           Evaluation and attractiveness of markets

-           Entry modes in international markets

-           Global sourcing and global value chains

-           Marketing and global business

ATTIVITÀ DI APPRENDIMENTO E METODI DIDATTICI PREVISTI/Teaching and Learning activities

The topics of the course will be presented through:

-       theoretical lectures

-       business cases

-       lectures by professionals working in organizations dealing with internationalization processes

-      direct visits in companies that are undergoing interesting internationalization strategies.

MODALITÁ DI VERIFICA DELL’APPRENDIMENTO/Examination

The final evaluation will be base on a written exam

BIBLIOGRAFIA/Bibliography

Main references of the course are:

  • Cavusgil S.T., Knight G., Riesenberg J.R., 2012, International business, 2nd edition, Pearson
  • Gereffi G., Humphrey J., Sturgeon T., 2005, The governance of global value chains, Review of international political economy, vol. 12 (1) pp. 78-104
  • Johanson J., Vahlne JE., 2007, The Uppsala internationalization process model revisited: From liability of foreigness to liability of outsidership, Journal of International Business Studies, 40, pp. 1411-1431
  • Khanna T., Palepu K., 1997, Why Focused Strategies May Be Wrong For Emerging Markets, Harvard business review, July-August, pp. 41-51
  • Khanna T., Palepu K.G., Sinha J., 2005, Strategies That Fit Emerging Markets, Harvard business review, June, pp. 63-76
  • Mudambi R., 2008, Location, control and innovation in knowledge-intensive industries, Journal of Economic Geography, 8, pp. 699-725
  • Ruzzier M., Hisrich R.D.,  Antoncic  B., 2006, SME internationalization research: past, present, and future, Journal of small business and enterprise development , vol. 13 (4) pp. 476-497
  • Zucchella A., Palamara G., Denicolai S., 2007, “The drivers of the early internationalization of the firm”, Journal of world Business, 42, pp. 268-280

A more specific list, together with the slides of the course, will be available on “Materiale didattico” at the beginning of the course.

Students that will not attend the course will have a partially different program.


TESI DI LAUREA/Thesis

It is possible to write the final master dissertation on topics related to the course.