Globalization and the Multinational Enterprise. IB Strategy and the Organization of the Multinational Enterprise
Frontal classes
No
Obligatory
This course aims at answering the question: how Multinational Companies build effective and efficient organizations to meet their targets in the Mediterranean area? The course focuses on management and cooperation on the one side; on the other it also focuses on the context and it examines the dynamics of growth and trade. Specific topics are: the impact of innovation, the impact of delocalization, the impact of the vote with the portfolio.
Text 1: S. Iammarino e P. McCann (2013)
Multinationals and Economic Geography
Location, Technology and Innovation, London, Elgar.
Students will be provided with possible additional bibliography.
Argomenti | Riferimenti testi | |
1 | 1. INTRODUCTION TO THE FIELD OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS | CHAPTER 1, TEXT 1 |
2 | 2. A MAP OF GLOBAL GROWTH | CHAPTER 2, TEXT 1 |
3 | 3. THE IMPACT OF FINANCIAL INNOVATION ON INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS | CHAPTER3, TEXT 1 |
4 | 4. THE WORKING OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS | CHAPTER 4, TEXT1 |
5 | 5. DELOCALIZATION AND VOTE WITH THE PORTFOLIO AND ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY | CHAPTER 5, TEXT 1 |
6 | 6. PATTERN OF REGIONAL ECONOMICS | CHAPTER 6, TEXT 1 |
7 | 7. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY | CHAPTER 7, TEXT 1 |
8 | 8. THE IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION ON INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS | CHAPTER 8, TEXT 1 |
9 | 9. URBAN STUDIES IN THE GLOBAL SCENARIO OF BUSINESS | CHAPTER 9, TEXT 1 |
Written exam
In the Euro-Mediterranean scenario, descrive the impact of the vote with the portfolio on delocalizing firms and the set of stakeholders involved on both sides of Mediterranean. Use the appropriate analytical tool.