The course aims to introduce students to international business and management. Major topics of the course are the global manager’s environment, global strategies, multicultural management, cross-cultural negotiation and decision making.
The objectives of the course are: - gaining knowledge of concepts and theories of international management - understanding tools and models that allow to interpret and critically analyse the opportunities and challenges arising from operating across a firm's national borders - developing the ability to apply such knowledge, tools and models to the analysis and resolution of concrete problems in the field of international management.
Students should learn how to analyse the globalization trends of firms and markets, and to understand the main steps in the internationalization of firms, in marketing strategies, in management of products, understanding the opportunities offered by emerging markets.
Students are expected to be familiar with concepts such as:
Traditional lectures in Italian.
Attendance: Attendance is not compulsory; students can choose to study the syllabus for attending or not attending students (see italian syllabus).
The global manager’s environment
The cultural context of global management
Understanding the role of culture
Communicating across cultures
Cross-cultural negotiations and decision making
Formulating and implementing strategy for international and global operations
Formulating strategy
Implementing strategy: strategic alliances; small business; emerging economy firms
Organization structure and control systems
Attention: the course is taught in Italian.
If foreign students choose to study the ordinary syllabus in Italian, they can refer to the above sections in this document (italian syllabus).
Otherwise, an English syllabus is available, based on the following textbook:
Deresky H., International management. Management across borders and cultures, 8th Edition, Pearson, 2014. Part 1, 2 and 3.
Textbooks are available in the library of the Department of Economics
Ricevimento: In order to schedule a one-to-one meeting with Prof.ssa Clara Benevolo please send an email to: clara.benevolo@economia.unige.it
CLARA BENEVOLO (President)
SILVIA BRUZZI
RICCARDO SPINELLI
First Semester
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INTERNATIONAL INTERCULTURAL MANAGEMENT
Written exam with open-ended questions.
In case of exam failure, students cannot take the exam on the following call (appello) and need to skip a date.
If students do not accept a positive grade (18 or more), they can retry the exam on the following call.
Incoming mobility students do not have to skip a call in case of failure.
Questions will explore both theoretical and applied aspects of the subject. The student is expected not only to know the core concepts of the discipline, but also to be able to apply them to real situations, making reference to cases explored during classes or to original examples.
