Strategy and Marketing

Global Business Organisation

Module code: N1546
Level 5
15 credits in autumn semester
Teaching method: Lecture, Workshop
Assessment modes: Take away paper, Coursework

You learn to identify different forms of business organisation across a range of national economies. 

You also investigate the pressures for change and forces of convergence, which are eroding the differences between national business systems.

You study:  

  • corporate governance
  • the role of the nation state in business and financial institutions
  • the historical constitution and recent transformation of advanced economies including the UK, the USA, Japan, France and German
  • the nature of business organisation in China and the other emerging economies.

You look at key empirical elements of a range of national business systems with a comparative/institutionalist theoretical approach.

Module learning outcomes

  • Identify and understand different forms of business organization across a range of national business systems.
  • Understand and evaluate the core formal and informal institutions that comprise national business systems.
  • Apply the underlying principles of institution-based comparative business organisation to understand the relationships between nationally distinct forms of business organisation.
  • Critically evaluate the theoretical and empirical contributions of a range of academic literature.