International Management

(3-4 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

International business is conducted with and through people from various cultural backgrounds. Cultural differences, if not understood and bridged, can be significant barriers to the implementation and success of a business venture. We'll learn how to conduct business across borders and cultures by focusing on the cultural, political, economic and legal environments in which multinational corporations (MNCs) operate. AU - Angers, Frances - UCO The overall objective of this course is to provide students with an understanding of the essential principles and tools of international strategic management with a view to developing the knowledge, skills, and awareness inherent in an international practice in an international context. It is structured around a series of topics that contribute to the emergence of a comprehensive framework and methodology for addressing international development and challenges encountered in the formulation and implementation of firm's internationalization. This course is divided in two blocks. A first block with the aims to: - Highlight the key stages of strategic thinking - Give students synthetic elements of different stages of the strategic diagnosis - Enable students to use the main tools at their disposal in carrying out strategic thinking. - Introduce the concepts to implement a strategic plan in at the different levels of the company. The second block aims: - To define the strategic choices of internationalization of a company - To explore the organizational variation of the strategy by showing the International strategic options to be followed. - To analyze the different forms of organizational change and propose an internationalization approach - To discover and understand the international strategies of companies - To understand how an international strategy is formulated within the company. TJ - Tokyo, Japan - Sophia University: This course provides students with a fundamental understanding of the international aspects of business and management. It provides a broad view of the factors underlying international competitive dynamics and performance. The course considers the objectives and strategies of international business in the context of global competition. It addresses common international business functions of market analysis, exporting, sourcing, direct foreign investment, and cross-cultural management.