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International Management
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International Management
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Academic year 2021/2022
- Course ID
- MAN0532
- Teaching staff
- Chiara Civera (Lecturer)
Rebecca Pera (Lecturer) - Degree course
- BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION - Curriculum: Business Management and International Marketing
- Year
- 2nd year
- Teaching period
- First Term
- Type
- Elective
- Credits/Recognition
- 5
- Course disciplinary sector (SSD)
- SECS-P/08 - economia e gestione delle imprese
- Delivery
- Formal authority
- Language
- English
- Attendance
- Obligatory
- Type of examination
- Oral
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Sommario del corso
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Course objectives
The aim of the International Management course is to provide students with the tools and the knowlegde to understand how firms cope with international pressures and issues throughout global and complex supply chains. The course will offer innovative ideas on the management strategies to compete internationally. Case studies and fresh theoretical perspectives around stakeholder theory, CSR, HR Management and leadership will guide the students in a journey across borders and cultures to effectively manage grand gloabal challenges.
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Results of learning outcomes
- understand global pressures and challenges
- identify strategic issues to manage global and complex supply chains
- apply stakeholder theory to manage higher relational complexity globally
- understand how to manage HR in International contexts.
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Course delivery
Face to face lectures (streaming availabe through Webex for specific cases).
Case study assignments and group presentations
Group discussions of papers and readings available on moodle
Role plays for copying with real-life complex issues in international management
Essay development
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Learning assessment methods
- Oral exam developed around 3 main issues of discussion (individual evaluation with a maximum mark = 27);
- 3 extra points gained through the participation to group presentations and the hand in of the final essay (students are evaluated as a group);
- 2 extra points gained through the constant participation to group discussions and role plays as a group (students are evaluated as a group);
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Program
- The Cultural Environment
- Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability to respond to and anticipate grand global challenges
- Communicating across Borders and Cultures- Communicating CSR and sustainability across Borders and Cultures- Negotiation and Decision Making across Borders and Cultures- Work Motivation across Borders and Cultures- Leadership across Borders and Cultures- Stakeholder engagement, value creation and External Human Resource Management across Borders and CulturesSuggested readings and bibliography
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Civera, C., & Freeman, R. E. (2020). Stakeholder Relationships and Responsibilities: A New Perspective. Symphonya. Emerging Issues in Management, (1), 40-58.
Casalegno, C. G., Civera, C., & Couturier, J. (2020). Applying a company stakeholder responsibility approach to human resources management: the external human resources model. European Journal of International Management. 1(1).
Civera, C., De Colle, S., & Casalegno, C. (2019). Stakeholder engagement through empowerment: The case of coffee farmers. Business Ethics: A European Review, 28(2), 156-174.
Bridoux, F., & Stoelhorst, J. W. (2016). Stakeholder relationships and social welfare: A behavioral theory of contributions to joint value creation. Academy of Management Review, 41(2), 229-251.- Oggetto:
Note
The teaching activities modalities may vary according to the limitations imposed by the current health crisis. In any case, lectures will be online throughout the academic year.
Le modalità di svolgimento dell'attività didattica potranno subire variazioni in base alle limitazioni imposte dalla crisi sanitaria in corso. In ogni caso è assicurata la modalità a distanza per tutto l'anno accademico.
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