GRA 6833 Corporate & Global Strategies
GRA 6833 Corporate & Global Strategies
The course covers key strategic issues that corporate headquarters deal with in trying to achieve a sustainable business in today’s fast-changing and increasingly global competitive arena.
The domain of corporate and global strategies comprises essentially: (i) defining appropriate boundaries for the corporation; (ii) restructuring the corporation (for example expansion, diversification, relocation, and divestment decisions); (iii) making suitable delegation decisions (i.e. allocating decision rights between corporate headquarters and subsidiary units); and (iv) managing relationships in complex (multiunit) and spatially dispersed (multilocal) corporations.
Provide students with knowledge about core parts of the research-based literature on corporate and global strategies.
Develop students competence in analyzing and assessing the scope of corporations.
Develop students’ understanding of the challenges involved in formulating and implementing corporate strategies, especially those that entail extending companies’ activities across national borders, and which have implications for sustainability issues at both local and global levels.
The course will focus on:
- Issues in corporate and global strategies
- The purpose and scope of corporations
- Modes of entry, operation, and expansion
- Diversification, restructuring, and divestment
- Organizing complex multinational companies
- Managing complex multinational companies
The course is a combination of lectures, student presentations, and discussions. Active student participation is generally expected, such as engaging in discussions. Students will also be asked to make presentations (in groups) of cases and articles.
Active student participation is generally expected. Students should read all required literature before sessions and come well-prepared to class. The amount of readings for each session is typically 3 to 4 academic articles.
Required course literature is a collection of articles. Most articles are available through BI library databases. Students are responsible for downloading articles that are accessible through the BI library and the It's learning. Other readings will be made available to students on a successive basis.
This course has two mandatory coursework requirements (presentations). The coursework requirements must be approved to be able to sit for the exams.
The exam for this course has been changed starting academic year 2023/2024. The course now has two exam codes instead of one. It is not possible to retake the old version of the exam. Please note new exam codes in the Exam section of the course description.
It is the student’s own responsibility to obtain any information provided in class.
All courses in the Masters programme will assume that students have fulfilled the admission requirements for the programme. In addition, courses in second, third and/or fourth semester can have specific prerequisites and will assume that students have followed normal study progression. For double degree and exchange students, please note that equivalent courses are accepted.
| Mandatory coursework | Courseworks given | Courseworks required | Comment coursework |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mandatory | 2 | 2 | The course has 2 work requirements: Class presentations of (i) a case, and (ii) a research article. Presentations are made by groups. Both presentations are done in class. |
| Assessments |
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Exam category: Submission Form of assessment: Written submission Weight: 40 Grouping: Individual Duration: 3 Month(s) Comment: Assignment Exam code: GRA 68332 Grading scale: ECTS Resit: Examination when next scheduled course |
Exam category: Submission Form of assessment: Written submission Weight: 60 Grouping: Group (2 - 4) Duration: 1 Semester(s) Comment: Term paper Exam code: GRA 68333 Grading scale: ECTS Resit: Examination when next scheduled course |
All exams must be passed to get a grade in this course.
| Activity | Duration | Comment |
|---|---|---|
Teaching | 36 Hour(s) | |
Group work / Assignments | 45 Hour(s) | Group work on presentations |
Submission(s) | 15 Hour(s) | Individual assignment |
Student's own work with learning resources | 64 Hour(s) |
A course of 1 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of 26-30 hours. Therefore a course of 6 ECTS credits corresponds to a workload of at least 160 hours.