INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS

SECS-P/01 - 9 CFU - 1° Semester

Teaching Staff

LIVIO FERRANTE


Course Structure

GLOBALISATION AND THE MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE

STRATEGY AND ORGANIZATION OF THE MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE

NEW ISSUES IN IB



Detailed Course Content

GLOBALISATION AND THE MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE

- Basic concepts and trend of internationalization

- Institution-based view

- Resource-based view

 

STRATEGY AND ORGANIZATION OF THE MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE

- Foreign entry strategies

- Competitive dynamics

- Global strategies

- Organization and innovation in the multinational

- Human resource management

 

NEW ISSUES IN IB

- Emerging markets

- Emerging firms



Textbook Information

GLOBALISATION AND THE MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE

Peng, M. e Meyer, K. (2016) International Business. Cenage Learning (Second Edition) - chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 and 11

 

STRATEGY AND ORGANIZATION OF THE MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE

Peng, M. e Meyer, K. (2016) International Business. Cenage Learning (Second Edition) - chapters 12, 13, 14, 15 e 16

 

NEW ISSUES IN IB

- Elia, S. and Santangelo, G.D. (2017) The evolution of strategic asset-seeking acquisitions by emerging market multinationals. International Business Review, 26(5): 855-866.

- Emergent Giants Multinationals from China, India, Brazil, Russia, and even Egypt are coming on strong. They're hungry -- and want your customers. They're changing the global game”, Business Week 31 July 2006. (pp.1-11) http://oldsite.mahindrausa.com/pdfs/news/MUSA_Business-Week_article.pdf

- Guillen, M.F. & Esteban Garcia-Canal, E. (2009) “The American model of the multinational firm and the “new” multinationals from emerging economies”. Academy of Management Perspectives, Vol. 23( 2): 23-35.

- Khanna, T. & Palepu, K.G. (2010) “The Nature of Institutional Voids in Emerging Markets: Why Markets Fail and How to Make Them Work” in Khanna, T. & Palepu, K.G. Winning in Emerging Markets. Harvard Business School Press. (pp.1-29)

- Khanna, T., Palepu, K.G. & Sinha, J. (2005) Strategies that fit emerging markets, Harvard Business Review 83, 63-76.

- Meyer, K. (2015) “What is ”strategic asset seeking FDI?”, Multinational Business Review, 23, 57-66.

- Amazon in Emerging Markets. Case study by Nguyen-Chyung, A. and Faulk. E. (2014) WDI Publishing, pp. 1-36

- "Xiaomi Challenges Global Smartphone Leaders". Case study by Meyer, K. and Zhu, J. in Peng, M. and Meyer, K. International Business 2016 (Second Edition), pp. 506 – 510.




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