Scuola di Economia e Management
Syllabus
Academic Year 2019/20 Second Semester
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Learning Objectives
At the end of the course the student will be able:
In this way, the course contributes to prepare them to take future responsibilities within multinational firms or to work for them within financial institutions and consulting companies.
Learning targets
Students will know the distinctive features of multinational corporations and develop a critical approach to international strategy: the analysis of past choices and performance in international markets will allow them to formulate new choices for better corporate results
Course Content
Multinational corporations are characterized by a higher complexity of the strategic management process because of the diversity of the environments they concurrently operate in. In addition, these firms are responsible for a large share of global wealth, consumption and employment. Therefore, their capability to make appropriate strategic decisions is a paramount concern that societies must address to ensure economic growth and prosperity. To this end, the course will provide appropriate coverage of the following topics:
Course Delivery
The course sessions are of two types.
1. The first type of sessions have a traditional format (lectures and case discussions). Lectures are based on 8 chapters of the primary textbook.
2. In the second type of sessions, under the supervision of the instructor, students are asked to prepare a strategic analysis of a multinational corporation. Students are responsible to self-organize in groups, choose a multinational corporation, look for relevant information, analyze the case study and present it to the rest of the class. The knowledge created in this way will be shared at the end of the course and will be part of the collective learning process. Students non attending classes, instead of running such a group work, are called to study 5 additional chapters extracted from the secondary textbook.
Students are responsible for consulting on a regular basis the website of the course on “my.liuc.it” and "LIUC e-corsi" where updates, additional material and slides about the course are posted. No excuse accepted for any failure during the course you may incur into due to a delayed consultation of the website.
Course Evaluation
For students attending classes, the grade is based on the groupwork preparation and presentation (compulsory) and an integrative individual oral exam on the course contents (optional). The final grade will be calculated as the average between the group work grade and the individual grade (if present).
For students non attending classes, the grade is based on an individual oral exam on the selected chapters of the two textbooks.