Mr Nilesh Dattani NAB5.02

This course is available on the BSc in Business Mathematics and Statistics, BSc in Management, International Exchange (1 Term) and International Exchange (Full Year). This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.

This course cannot be taken with MG303.

The course aims to apply social science theory to the analysis of the conduct and management of transnational activities; to critically appraise concepts such as globalisation, regionalisation, national competitiveness, transnationality of firms, etc. in the context of international management structures and processes; to delineate the international political, economic, social and legal structures and environments within which the activity of management takes place. The topics to be covered will include: the nature of the contemporary global political economy; the globalisation of business, finance and trade in goods and services; Global competition; the transnational corporation in the global economy; the tension between globalisation and regionalisation; the international trading order; the international monetary regime; the impact of culture on global business; the changing position of the state in the global economy; the new diplomacy of states and firms.

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

Students on this course will have a reading week in Week 6, in line with departmental policy.

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

P Dicken, Global Shift: Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy (7th edn), Sage Publications (2015); R W Griffen & M W Pustay, International Business: A Managerial Perspective (8th edn), Pearson Prentice-Hall (2015); O Shenker, Y Luo & T Chi, International Business, (3rd edn) Routledge (2015).

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