Mr Nilesh Dattani NAB5.02

This course is available on the BSc in Accounting and Finance, BSc in Business Mathematics and Statistics and BSc in Management. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.

Students must have completed EC100 OR EC102 OR equivalent.  

This is not a course on corporate strategy. It focuses on the evolution of thinking about firms and the activity of management and examines firm advantages through conceptual ideas and empirical knowledge. There will be an emphasis on analysing firms as reservoirs of resources and capabilities and topics to be covered will include distinctive capabilities of firms, organisational design, decision making in firms, organisational routines, managerial leadership and the role of ethics. Particular attention will be given to firms in technology-based industries and the management of innovation and contrasts will be made with public sector management.

10 hours of lectures and 10 hours of classes in the LT. 1 hour of lectures in the ST.

Students are expected to produce one piece of written work and to do the weekly class exercises

A reading list will be available to students taking the course.

Exam (100%, duration: 2 hours) in the main exam period.