Course Catalogue

Strategic Management MGT4023

  • Academic Session: 2026-27
  • School: Adam Smith Business School
  • Credits: 15
  • Level: Level 4 (SCQF level 10)
  • Typically Offered: Semester 1
  • Available to Visiting Students: Yes
  • Collaborative Online International Learning: No
  • Curriculum For Life: No

Short Description

This course will cover the core areas of Strategic Management, the levels of strategy and how to assess the competitive environment, giving attention to the application of key concepts and tools as well as the main concepts and theories contained in Strategic Management as a discipline.

Timetable

10 x 2 hour lectures

6 x 2 hour tutorials

Requirements of Entry

Entry to an Honours programme in Business and Management or a GPA of 12 in the level 2 courses listed below for students taking an Honours programme in another subject:

 

■ MGT2010 - Business Decision Analysis

■ MGT2011 - Fundamentals of Human Resource Management

■ MGT2012 - Services and Operations Management

■ MGT2014 - Entrepreneurship

Excluded Courses

None

Co-requisites

None

Assessment

1. Oral assignment & presentation; Group; 10-20 minutes; 30%; ILOs 3-5.

2. Written assignment, including essay; Individual; 1750 words; 70%; ILOs 1-5.

Course Aims

To become familiar with Strategic Management concepts, practices and theories. This course sits at the start of the honours programme to provide the student with the core knowledge to assess the strategy of an organisation and the skill to produce potential courses of action for an organisation in the future. The knowledge transferred in the course comprises the three levels of strategy: i.e. business level, corporate level and network level; and as such it provides the basic skeleton of strategy that will enable students to either study further or develop professionally. Strategic Management will form their basic understanding of business performance.

Intended Learning Outcomes of Course

By the end of this programme students will be able to:

 

1. Criticise and contrast theories and concepts of strategic decision-making.

 

2. Recognise and evaluate the importance of strategy to an organisation's decision-making processes.

 

3. Appraise an organisation's external and internal environment by drawing on appropriate economic and strategic management theories and frameworks.

 

4. Identify, design and explain and strategies an organisation may adopt in order to establish and maintain competitive advantage.

 

5. Critically evaluate factors that potentially impact strategic decision making.

Minimum Requirement for Award of Credits

No exceptions