Multinational Management MGT5056

  • Academic Session: 2023-24
  • School: Adam Smith Business School
  • Credits: 10
  • Level: Level 5 (SCQF level 11)
  • Typically Offered: Semester 2
  • Available to Visiting Students: No

Short Description

To introduce students to the competitive challenges facing multinational firms that operate in foreign countries, across borders and in a dynamic and global environment.

Timetable

6 x 3-hour lectures. An additional 2-hour recap lecture.

Requirements of Entry

Please refer to the current postgraduate prospectus at: http://www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate/

Assessment

Written assignment (70%) and presentations (30%)

Main Assessment In: April/May

Course Aims

To introduce students to the competitive challenges facing multinational firms that operate in foreign countries, across borders and in a dynamic and global environment. New opportunities are available to firms that expand beyond their domestic borders, but the costs, risks, levels of uncertainty, management and resource commitment and also the return on investment are significantly higher. This course with its focus on the business activities of multinational firms and their subsidiaries encourages students to extend and apply their knowledge of strategic management to foreign country environments and various cross-national settings.

Intended Learning Outcomes of Course

On completion of this course and prescribed readings students should be able to:

1. Discuss the drivers and motivations that lead multinational firms beyond their domestic borders and identify conflicting demands and challenges from the international environment

2. Compare and contrast the ways in which multinational firms and their subsidiaries build strategic capabilities and competences to enable them to compete internationally

3. Evaluate international collaborative strategies in comparison to independent means of international growth and development

4. Describe and critique organizational designs in international and global business

5. Analyse international management issues and problems and suggest solutions

6. Trace the historical development of the modern multinational organisation and make projections as to how it is likely to evolve in future.

Minimum Requirement for Award of Credits

Students must submit at least 75% by weight of the components (including examinations) of the course's summative assessment. Further requirements may include monitored attendance at classes and examinations. All such requirements shall be specified by the Department concerned, and given to students in writing at the beginning of the course. Normally no grade or credits shall be awarded to a candidate who has not met these requirements.