International Business BSc

Compulsory

• Introduction to Management Enquiry

  This module’s primary aim is to broaden students’ knowledge and skills in the use of IT and statistics in managing and analysing data for business to improve the quality of decision-making in a dynamic business environment.

• Managing Information with Technology

  This module’s primary aim is to broaden students’ knowledge and skills in the use of IT and statistics in managing and analysing data for business to improve the quality of decision-making in a dynamic business environment.

• Organisational Behaviour

  This module introduces students to the study of organisations. It outlines key sociological and psychological perspectives used to analyse organisations and occupational groups. Students encounter core topics including organisational design, bureaucracy and contingency theory. Theory and practice are linked via seminars, case study discussions and reflections on students’ experience of organisations.

• International Business Environment

  Developing students’ understanding of the basic economic concepts and principles that apply to the international business environment with emphasis on European business, and developing analytical and conceptual skills in economic and business environment for them to be able to respond to problems associated with modern international business environment.

• Principles and Practice of Marketing

  This module focuses on developing an understanding of concepts of marketing, marketing mix principles and practices. It also aims to develop students’ awareness of skills needed and ethical issues in marketing.

• Introduction to Accounting & Financial Management

  The module introduces students to the essential concepts of accounting and financial management. As the foundation of all other accounting modules, you will study how financial information is prepared, communicated and used. You will develop skills in critically evaluating and appreciating the importance of the accounting and finance function within organisations particularly in connection with business decision making. Students will learn how to: prepare a set of essential financial statements for a business, prepare information for business planning - such as budgets, prepare information for decision making using techniques such as cost, volume, profit analysis and investment appraisal techniques.

Compulsory

• Economics for Business and Management

  This module seeks to provide students with the analytical means to examine and assess the industry sector context in which firms make corporate decisions. In particular, this module provides students with an understanding of theories of markets and firms as the basis for evaluating strategic shifts in the international business and regulatory environment.

• Entrepreneurship and Marketing in Business

  This module aims to help students develop an appreciation of the key characteristics of Entrepreneurship and Business ventures and addresses the theoretical and practical issues of marketing communications in a global context.

• International Business in Emerging Markets

  The module aims to enable students to appreciate the wide ranging issues associated with the development of transnational corporations (TNCs) operating in emerging markets both from the point of view of foreign based TNCs, indigenous firms and host country governments. It also aims to introduce students to core concepts, topics and methodological approaches relevant to the analysis of the operations of international business within emerging markets, and to develop the student’s skill of combining theoretical and macro-level analysis with detailed empirical analysis of international business in a series of industrial sectors across selected emerging market contexts.

• Human Resource Management and its International Dimensions

  The aim of this module is to introduce students to issues, debates, and controversies relating to the field of Human Resource Management. The module intends to develop students’ awareness of people management issues within and outside the workplace. The people management issues are set against the background of national and international issues that affect HRM policies and practices.

• International Relations

  This module aims to acquaint students with the core concepts, processes, and issues of international relations. It examines the international society, international political economy in terms of classical and contemporary theories. The module additionally examines new issues in international relations.

• Quantitative Methods for Business and Management

  This module enables you to become familiar with statistical techniques and concepts used in Business and Management, which are used frequently to understand real-world scenarios. As well as preparing you for the final year project (MG3117), the skills developed in this module are transferable for use in everyday life. Students of this module will be introduced to the concepts of probabilities, random variables, descriptive statistics, and hypothesis testing. Strong emphasis will be given to practical applications to "real-world" issues. For example, you will learn: how to effectively present and communicate your findings using graphical methods and summary statistics, how to select appropriate statistical techniques, to answer business research questions.

• Preparation for Placement and a Graduate Career

  This module aims to prepare students commencing a career after graduation and/or a placement. It will give guidance on effective job hunting, and processes used by employers as well preparation for the assessment of the placement learning through self-directed learning and the use of career development tools to support reflection on personal development.

Compulsory

• International Business Strategy

  This module provides students with knowledge of the economic and managerial underpinnings as well as managerial and business implications of global strategies. It discusses theories, concepts, and cutting-edge developments in the field of international business strategy and relates them to real world firm behaviour.

• Globalisation, Trade and Investment

  This module aims to foster an understanding of the drivers of globalisation, that is, world trade and investment and their impact on global economy. This to include, but not restricted to, international trade theories (classical and modern) and their relevance in modern day globalised world, international trade in goods and services, protectionism, balance of payments statistics of a nation and its various components, exchange rates and international capital markets.

• Issues and Controversies in International Business Studies

  This core module helps students to conduct critical appraisals of issues and controversies involving International business studies involving contemporary organisations and of managerial and strategic responses to these challenges. It also provides focused support in appropriate research methods and in the effective communication of research findings in oral presentations, small group discussions and an extended written report.

Optional

• Entrepreneurship and Small Business Ventures

  This module provides an integrated and critical analysis of entrepreneurship and small business management related theories and frameworks underpinning the practice and policy of entrepreneurship and small business management. It will enable you to draw on evidence and contemporary research to explore entrepreneurial value creation and capture, and the imperatives of innovative new technologies on small business growth, as well as identify and evaluate the opportunities and distinctive challenges faced by entrepreneurs and their firms.

• International Marketing

  This module addresses critical understanding and ability in assessing the effectiveness of international marketing theory and practice. It targets principles and issues that drive markets world-wide. Students will develop insight and investigative ability concerning issues facing a business that needs to research markets and develop and implement market strategies, techniques and methods across a range of international sectors.

• Innovation and Knowledge Management

  This module is designed to give students an understanding of the role of knowledge assets as a key to corporate success and particularly in relation to innovation. It examines how organisations create, utilise and exploit knowledge in the globalising knowledge-based economy, and the wider social and economic factors affecting knowledge creation and transfer.

• Business Ethics, Environmental Sustainability and Governance

  The module aims to provide students with the opportunity to gain critical understanding of theories and contemporary approaches to business ethics, corporate social responsibility and governance in the age of globalisation, and the challenges of sustainable development and business responses to it.

• International Strategic Innovation Management

  This module aims to introduce students to a range of models, theoretical perspectives and interpretations of the management of technological innovation in national and international firms, and to develop understanding and critical thought on the above through an analysis of relevant contemporary substantive debates and issues in technology management such as international technology outsourcing and alliances.

• Corporate Entrepreneurship and Innovation

  This module focuses on theories and practices related to the entrepreneurial and innovation process within established organisations. In particular, it emphasises intrapreneurship and managing innovation in organisations, and the processes, structures and culture pertinent to the successful discovery, evaluation and implementation of entrepreneurial and innovation opportunities in established organisations.