Learning objectives |
To achieve the grade 12, students should meet the
following learning objectives with no or only minor mistakes or
errors: After completing the course students should be able to:
- Describe the key legal principles and goals of the European
Union, its Single Market and overall context for business.
- Compare, evaluate and discuss in an advanced manner the
different situations in which business strategies might find
themselves when operating in the Single European Market.
- Formulate and answer analytical questions on the basis of the
learning goals above.
- Be able to critically and thoroughly define strategies for
businesses in situations of new market openings, as well as to be
able to identify the dilemmas, problems of bottlenecks that might
emerge as a result of changes/frameworks defined in the context of
the European Union context.
- Be able to critically and thoroughly define strategies for
businesses in situations of new market openings, as well as to be
able to identify the dilemmas, problems of bottlenecks that might
emerge as a result of changes/frameworks defined in the context of
the European Union context.
|
Course prerequisites |
Ingen specifik |
Examination |
Advanced
European Business and Politics: A Case-Based
Approach:
|
Exam
ECTS |
7,5 |
Examination form |
Home assignment - written product |
Individual or group exam |
Individual exam |
Size of written product |
Max. 10 pages |
Assignment type |
Written assignment |
Duration |
48 hours to prepare |
Grading scale |
7-step scale |
Examiner(s) |
One internal examiner |
Exam period |
Winter |
Make-up exam/re-exam |
Same examination form as the ordinary exam
I følge praksis på MA IBC
studienævn.
|
Description of the exam
procedure
The students will get 3 questions, 2 of which are directly
related to the cases presented and discussed during
the classes.
|
|
Course content and structure |
The course provides an advanced focus on the European Union
context for business strategy and business development. The
European Union regulates and decides on a wide range of areas that
are directly related to the daily issues for business. These EU
regulations and decisions have to do with specific legal principles
and legAfter completing the course students should be able to:al
developments in the Single European Market and its adjacent
policies. They regulate the limits of business operations as well
as new business opportunities in a larger and harmonized market.
With a strong focus on business case studies, this advanced course
gives the students factual knowledge about the EU legal and policy
context for business, and concrete examples of business strategies,
dilemmas, paradoxes and decisions, that are directly related to
this EU context. In so doing, the course covers the most important
contemporary issues for business in the EU, such as the principles
defining the Single European Market, EU competition policy and law,
labour mobility, harmonized product standards, the financial sector
in the Economic and Monetary Union, as well a series of key
industrial sectors directly influenced by EU policy like energy,
telecommunications, or air transport.
The course combines lectures and business cases (from Harvard or
Marketline databases on business cases).
|
Teaching methods |
The course combines two elements. A first part is
a conventional lecture by the teacher, introducing the topic and
underlying the most important aspects of the topic. And a second
part, which is a specific business case (from Harvard or Marketline
databases on business cases) about a company situation or process
in the given topic. It is very important that the students have
read all the material before attending class and the case
discussions. It will be assumed they have read the material. The
cases will be shortly presented by students in groups or
individually, and the teacher will conduct and steer the discussion
in class, making sure the most crucial aspects of the case have
come forward, particularly in relation to the previous
lecture. |
Feedback during the teaching period |
Feedback will be given in class during the
lectures. |
Student workload |
Preparation - reading literature for classes |
76 hours |
Preparation - reading the cases |
32 hours |
Preparation - student presentation of cases |
20 hours |
Teaching - attending the classes |
30 hours |
Exam |
48 hours |
|
Expected literature |
To be announced. It will be based on advanced material
(research-based publications), as well as a series of 8 case
studies carefully selected.
|