Bachelor of Science (BSc)

BSc Management

  • Duration: 3 years
  • Year of entry: 2025
  • UCAS course code: N201 / Institution code: M20
  • Key features:
  • Study with a language
  • Scholarships available

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Fees and funding

Fees

Tuition fees for home students commencing their studies in September 2025 will be £9,535 per annum (subject to Parliamentary approval). Tuition fees for international students will be £31,500 per annum. For general information please see the undergraduate finance pages.

Additional expenses

All students should normally be able to complete their programme of study without incurring additional study costs over and above the tuition fee for that programme.

Policy on additional costs

All students should normally be able to complete their programme of study without incurring additional study costs over and above the tuition fee for that programme. Any unavoidable additional compulsory costs totalling more than 1% of the annual home undergraduate fee per annum, regardless of whether the programme in question is undergraduate or postgraduate taught, will be made clear to you at the point of application. Further information can be found in the University's Policy on additional costs incurred by students on undergraduate and postgraduate taught programmes (PDF document, 91KB).

Scholarships/sponsorships

The Manchester Bursary is available to UK students registered on an undergraduate degree course at Alliance MBS who have had a full financial assessment carried out by Student Finance England. 

In addition, Alliance MBS will award a range of Social Responsibility Scholarships to UK and international/EU students.

These awards are worth £2,000 per year across three years of study. You must achieve AAA at A-level (or equivalent qualification) and be able to demonstrate a significant contribution and commitment to social responsibility.

The School will also award a number of International Stellar Scholarships to international students achieving AAA at A-level (or equivalent qualification). Applicants who exceed AAA and/or have supplementary qualifications (such as EPQ) will receive additional consideration.

Additional eligibility criteria apply - please see our scholarship pages for full details.

Course unit details:
Foundations of Strategy and Innovation

Course unit fact file
Unit code BMAN24442
Credit rating 20
Unit level Level 2
Teaching period(s) Semester 2
Available as a free choice unit? No

Overview

This course introduces foundational strategy and innovation concepts. This foundation is designed to help students understand i) how managers make effective strategic decisions in today’s dynamic business environment to acquire long term competitive advantage, and ii) what innovation is, its processes and sources and why it matters in business organisations.

 

Pre/co-requisites

NONE

 

Aims

  1. To introduce key theories and foundational concepts from the fields of strategic management and innovation.
  2. To help students understand which strategies are more likely to lead to long term success.
  3. To help students understand processes of technological and business model innovation.

 

Syllabus

•    Definition of strategy and strategy types 
•    Descriptive strategic management views: the design and planning schools, the Porterian school, and the resource-based view of firm
•    Managerial cognition and behavioural strategy 
•    Definition of innovation, types and sources of innovation 
•    Patterns of technological development 
•    Business model innovation
•    Disruptive innovation
•    Dynamic capabilities  
 

Teaching and learning methods

Lectures and workshops

Knowledge and understanding

On successful completion of the course unit, students should be able to:

  • Understand the concepts of strategy and innovation and their importance to achieve competitive advantage in dynamic business environments.
  • Understand which strategies are more likely to lead to long-term competitiveness and success.
  • Identify the different main theoretical approaches used in the literature to study strategy and innovation and their applicability in specific contexts.
  • Apply strategy and innovation concepts and theoretical views to real business organizations, and think creatively about alternative courses of action and recommendations for improving their innovation performance.

Employability skills

Analytical skills
Students will be able to critically assess key different views on strategic management and innovation, and its implications for the development of business strategies. ¿ Commercial awareness. The course will develop commercial awareness by enabling students to understand which strategies and structures are more likely to lead to success in innovation, and why some companies are able to innovate and others are not.
Group/team working
via the group assignment students will learn to work collectively as effective and efficient group members, including organising, contributing and motivating others.
Problem solving
the group assignment will allow students to acquire skills needed to apply theory and empirical evidence to develop informed solutions to problems associated with achieving competitive advantage via innovation

Assessment methods

Exam: 75%

Group report: 25%

The group assignment will include a peer-review method.

 

Feedback methods

Written feedback on coursework assignment and verbal feedback in lectures and via Blackboard

Recommended reading

Johnson, G., Scholes, K. and Whittington, R., (2017). Exploring corporate strategy: text & cases. Pearson education).

Hitt, M.A, Ireland, R.D., and Hoskisson R. (2017) Strategic Management: Concepts: Competitiveness and Globalization, 12th Edition

Mintzberg, H., Ahlstrand, B., & Lampel, J. (2009) Strategy Safari. London: Prentice Hall.

Schilling, M. (2017) Strategic Management of Technological Innovation. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Tidd, J. and Bessant, J. (2013) Managing Innovation: Integrating Technological, Market and Organisational Change. 5th edition (published by Wiley).

 

Study hours

Scheduled activity hours
Lectures 22
Tutorials 8
Independent study hours
Independent study 170

Teaching staff

Staff member Role
Mercedes Bleda Unit coordinator

Additional notes

Pre-requisites: None

Co-requisites: None

Dependent courses: This is a pre-requisite unit for BMAN31731 Advanced Strategic Management

This course is available to students on the following programmes:

Only available to students on: Mgt/Mgt Specialism; IMABS; IM; and ITMB.

For Academic Year 2023/24

Updated: March 2023

Approved by: March UG Committee

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