MSc Business Analysis and Strategic Management

The course unit has a particular focus on the dynamic interaction between institutions, firms and firm behaviours. The unit aims to show the variations in the different institutional contexts and aims to understand how these variations shape the structures, capabilities and internationalization behaviours/strategies of firms. It also aims to create an understanding on how different multinational companies manage various activities around the world, in other words in different institutional environments.

BMAN73172 Programme Req: BMAN73172 is only available as an elective to students on MSc BASM and MSc IB&M

The objectives of this course are:

1. to show students how firms, alliances and markets are organized differently around the world,
2. to examine the ways that this variation leads to the development of distinctive capabilities in firms in different parts of the world,
3. to analyse the ways in which firms from different countries internationalize, and to assess how different multinational companies manage various activities around the world.

At the end of the course, students should be able:

1. to compare the institutions of different countries,
2. to analyse the preferred strategies and capabilities of firms from different countries and sub-national regions,
3. to understand how companies form different locations internationalize in distinctive ways, and to understand how managers seek to overcome the managerial and organizational challenges that are associated with multinational companies.

• Group presentation - 25%
• Group project report - 25%
• Individual coursework - 50%

• Informal advice and discussion during a lecture, seminar, workshop or lab.

• Responses to student emails and questions from a member of staff including feedback provided to a group via an online discussion forum.

• Written and/or verbal comments on assessed or non-assessed coursework.

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Hall and Soskice (2001), ‘Introduction’, in Hall and Soskice (eds), Varieties of Capitalism: The   Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage

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Khanna, T., Palepu, K.G. and Bullock, R. (2010), Winning in Emerging Markets: A Road Map for Strategy and Execution, Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business Press

Kao, J. (2009), ‘Tapping the World's Innovation Hot Spots’, Harvard Business Review, 87 (3), 109-114.

Lam, A. (2003), ‘Organizational Learning in Multinationals: R&D Networks of Japanese and US MNEs in the UK’, Journal of Management Studies 40(3): 673-703.

Meyer, K. E., Estrin, S., Bhaumik, S. K., & Peng, M. W. (2009). Institutions, resources, and entry strategies in emerging economies. Strategic management journal, 30(1), 61-80.

Morgan, G. and Kristensen, P. H. (2006), ‘The Contested Space of Multinationals: Varieties of Institutionalism, Varieties of Capitalism’, Human Relations, 59 (11), 1467–1490

Morgan, G. and Whitley, R. (eds) (2012), Capitalisms and Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Morgan, G., Kelly, W., Sharpe, D. and Whitley, R. (2003), ‘Global Managers and Japanese Multinationals: Internationalization and Management in Japanese Financial Institutions’, International Journal of Human Resource Management, 14(3): 389–407.

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Peng, M. W., Wang, D. Y., & Jiang, Y. (2008). An institution-based view of inte

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