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BU5558: BUSINESS STRATEGY (2019-2020)

Last modified: 25 Sep 2019 09:58


Course Overview

Business Strategy covers a broad range of topics that come under the general heading of “Business Strategy” / “Strategic Management”. The course introduces participants to concepts, frameworks and models that are useful in providing explanations of how companies operate with respect to goal setting, understanding their competitive landscape, assessing opportunities,  managing own capabilities, coordinating their activities with other companies, and competing to create value for customers. The course is interactive in nature, applying a learning-by-doing method involving students taking on roles as part of a series of simulation exercises. 

Course Details

Study Type Postgraduate Level 5
Term Second Term Credit Points 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits)
Campus Aberdeen Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Professor Catia Montagna

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • One of MRes Applied Economics (Studied) or MSc Applied Economics (Studied) or MSc (Econ) in Petroleum, Energy Economics and Finance (Studied)
  • Any Postgraduate Programme (Studied)

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

The Business Strategy and Organisation course will apply theories, concepts and techniques of analysis, developed mainly in economics, but also in organisation theory and in economic sociology to realistic business situations. The strategy aspect recognises that most decisions are significant, irreversible and made in situations of uncertainty. The organisation aspect recognises that decisions are made in strictures and institutional settings, such as business organisations, product markets, finance markets and in business-to-business and business-to-consumer relationships. The course will be appropriate to (pg) level five teaching because it will present students with different theoretical and conceptual approaches, which draw on different assumptions about human agency and institutional and structural durability. Hence, students will receive an introduction to game theory, with its concepts of stable equilibrium, and also to behavioural theories of strategy, which are procedural and based on agents' routines, standard operating procedures and durable capabilities. Lectures will introduce theories, concepts and techniques of analysis. Seminars will be of equal significance and will focus on applications, mainly through case studies. Students will also learn case studies as an approach to pedagogy. Coursework will involve students undertaking their own independent case study analyses.


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Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

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