COURSE OUTLINE
This module is designed to provide students with an advanced understanding of the external context within which international businesses operate and the opportunities and challenges it poses to entrepreneurial firms, large and small. It begins by explaining the rationale for studying international business from the perspective of the entrepreneur. It then introduces to students key international trade theories and practices, and the application of such to the study of entrepreneurship. The several remaining lectures are dedicated to discussing the external challenges facing international firms, particularly economic, financial, political-legal, technological and cultural challenges.
COURSE AIMS
The main aim of the module is to enable students to obtain a thorough and critical understanding of the complex process of international business activity ad the different ways large and small firms manage the process of change associated with internationalisation.
This module is designed to provide students with an advanced understanding of the external context within which international businesses operate and the opportunities and challenges it poses to entrepreneurial firms, large and small. It begins by explaining the rationale for studying international business from the perspective of the entrepreneur. It then introduces to students key international trade theories and practices, and the application of such to the study of entrepreneurship. The several remaining lectures are dedicated to discussing the external challenges facing international firms, particularly economic, financial, political-legal, technological and cultural challenges.
COURSE AIMS
The main aim of the module is to enable students to obtain a thorough and critical understanding of the complex process of international business activity ad the different ways large and small firms manage the process of change associated with internationalisation.
- Module Supervisor: Palitha Konara