This module is not currently running in 2021 to 2022.
The aims of the module are:
• To analyse the complexity and diversity of the international business environment.
• To evaluate major trade and foreign direct investment theories and concepts.
• To investigate the modern multinational enterprise, its evolution and investigate the subsidiary mandates.
• To offer practical solutions and policy design to the problems faced by the international business community.
The module content will include:
• Introduction - The Global Environment
• International Trade and Foreign Direct Investment Theories
• Location, Risk Analysis and Multinational Enterprises
• Gaining Global Competitiveness
• Global Finance - Integration in Global Markets
• Cross Cultural Management
• Technology and Innovation in International Business
• Corporate Social Responsibility and International Business
• Multinational Enterprises and Economic Development
• Foreign Direct Investment and Governments
Coursework (100%) comprising a group presentation (20%) and a report (80%).
Key Text: Dicken, P. (201107), Global Shift: Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy, 6th Edition, London: Sage Publications.
Rugman, A.M. and Brewer, L. (eds.) (2003), The Oxford Handbook of International Business, Oxford University Press, Oxford (Available online via the Templeman Library website: http://library.kent.ac.uk/library/online/archs.shtml).
Bickerstaffe, G. (ed.) (1998), Mastering Global Business: The Complete MBA Companion in Global Business, Financial Times-Pitman, London.
See the library reading list for this module (Canterbury)
By the end of the module the students will be able to:
• Understand international business theories and apply these to real world cases.
• Analyse the complexity and the interconnections between various dimensions of multinational enterprises engaged in international activities such as international finance, government-business relations and international HRM.
• Define the various ways MNEs are organised in response to their external environment and relate them with different structures of the MNE networks of subsidiaries.
• Effectively play their part in managing resources across national boundaries within their organisation, either now or in the future.
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