The phenomenon of globalization is discussed in connection with a variety of issues directly and/or indirectly relevant for business and managerial practices. Topics include the globalization debate in terms of conceptualization, causal dynamics, socio-economic consequences, and implications for macroeconomic stability, state power, and governance.
Global and Local Business Context (MGMT 901)
2021 Spring
Sabancı Business School
Management(MGMT)
1.50
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Ahmet Esen ahmet.esen@sabanciuniv.edu,
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English
Doctoral, Master
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| Programs\Type | Required | Core Elective | Area Elective |
| Executive MBA - Non Thesis | * |
CONTENT
LEARNING OUTCOMES
- Upon completion of this course, students should be able to: 1. Identify the factors involved in the formation, structuration and interactions of global and local business contexts since the nineteenth century with specific emphasis on the twentieth and the twenty-first centuries. 2. Use social theory frameworks and international political economy perspectives in making sense of change and transformation in the structures of global business context. 3.Identify the multiplicity of connections between business corporations and states and how the interaction between these two plays a decisive role in the making of local, national and global structures and relations. 4. Analyze the role of money and finance in international relations and recent regional and global financial turbulences and transformations in the international financial system as turning points in the structures of global and local business contexts. 5. Describe the nature of current economic and political relations on the global scale in terms of economic flows in the world economy and their implications for hegemony in the world system.
PROGRAMME OUTCOMES
1. Develop the ability to use critical, analytical, and reflective thinking and reasoning
2. Reflect on social and ethical responsibilities in his/her professional life.
3. Gain experience and confidence in the dissemination of project/research outputs
4. Work responsibly and creatively as an individual or as a member or leader of a team and in multidisciplinary environments.
5. Communicate effectively by oral, written, graphical and technological means and have competency in English.
6. Independently reach and acquire information, and develop appreciation of the need for continuously learning and updating.
1. Develop, interpret and use statistical analyses in decision making.
1. Identify and diagnose business problems and opportunities accurately and effectively across a wide range of business domains (accounting, financial management, operations, marketing, strategy, and organizational design), in global and local contexts.
2. Incorporate cultural context and complexities in their managerial practice.
3. Assess the performance of an organization in a wide range of business domains, using a range of performance criteria.
4. Identify, select, and justify strategies and courses of action at the divisional, business, and corporate levels of analysis and to develop effective plans for the implementation of selected strategies across a wide range of business domains and levels.