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2018/2019  KAN-CPOLO1801U  Global Knowledge Strategies

English Title
Global Knowledge Strategies

Course information
Language English
Course ECTS 7.5 ECTS
Type Mandatory
Level Full Degree Master
Duration One Quarter
Start time of the course Fourth Quarter
Timetable Course schedule will be posted at calendar.cbs.dk
Study board
Study Board for BSc/MSc i International Business and Politics, MSc
Course coordinator
  • Grazia Santangelo - Department of Strategy and Innovation (SI)
  • Larissa Rabbiosi - Department of Finance (FI)
Main academic disciplines
  • Globalization and international business
  • Innovation
Teaching methods
  • Face-to-face teaching
Last updated on 13-09-2018

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Learning objectives
  • Identify, evaluate and discuss key theories, frameworks and models in relation to global knowledge strategies
  • Identify, evaluate, and analyze firms’ challenges to access, transfer and use globally dispersed knowledge
  • Evaluate and assess the role of different types of knowledge and institutions in firms’ knowledge-related strategy-making
  • Identify, evaluate and apply different theoretical perspectives on firms’ knowledge-related strategy-making
  • Analyze business case studies by applying relevant concepts and theoretical perspectives on global knowledge strategies
Examination
Global Knowledge Strategies:
Exam ECTS 7,5
Examination form Written sit-in exam on CBS' computers
Individual or group exam Individual exam
Assignment type Written assignment
Duration 4 hours
Grading scale 7-step scale
Examiner(s) One internal examiner
Exam period Summer
Aids Closed book: no aids
However, at all written sit-in exams the student has access to the basic IT application package (Microsoft Office (minus Excel), digital pen and paper, 7-zip file manager, Adobe Acrobat, Texlive, VLC player, Windows Media Player), and the student is allowed to bring simple writing and drawing utensils (non-digital). PLEASE NOTE: Students are not allowed to communicate with others during the exam.
Make-up exam/re-exam
Same examination form as the ordinary exam
If the number of registered candidates for the make-up examination/re-take examination warrants that it may most appropriately be held as an oral examination, the programme office will inform the students that the make-up examination/re-take examination will be held as an oral examination instead.
Course content and structure

The course aims to provide students with an understanding of today’s global knowledge strategies. To this end, the course builds on different theoretical perspectives and extensively discusses company cases. The course consists of three parts. The first part revolves around the knowledge-based view (KBV) of the firm as a theoretical lens to understand internal and external knowledge-related strategies across the globe. The second part revolves around the institution-based view (IBV) as a theoretical lens to understand the challenges formal and informal institutions pose to firm strategizing on their knowledge-related resources around the world. The third part focuses on the phenomenon of global knowledge sourcing and aims to investigate theoretically and empirically how KBV and IBV inform the drivers and effects, the geography, and the new actors involved in global knowledge strategies.
Description of the teaching methods
Lectures, in-class cases discussion and group assignments
Feedback during the teaching period
The course seeks to offer feedback to students whenever feasible. Faculty staff members teaching the course are available during office hours (please, see day and time on Learn). Students are strongly encouraged to engage in class by asking questions and making comment, and to form self-study group to secure peer feedback.
Student workload
Preparation time (readings, group work, etc.) 120 hours
Lectures/ class exercises / “homework café”/ workshops etc. 32 hours
Exam (incl. preparation for the exam and actual exam period) 75 hours
Expected literature

The literature is based on academic articles. The following texts represent examples of the reading list.

Alcácer, J. (2006). Location choices across the value chain: How activity and capability influence collocation. Management Science, 52(10), 1457-1471.

Berry, H., & Kaul, A. (2015). Global sourcing and foreign knowledge seeking. Management Science, 61(5), 1052-1071.

D’Agostino, L. M., Laursen, K., & Santangelo, G. D. (2013) The impact of R&D offshoring on the home knowledge production of OECD investing regions. Journal ofEconomic Geography, 13(1): 145-175.

Grant, R. M. (1996). Toward a knowledge‐based theory of the firm. Strategic Management Journal, 17(S2), 109-122.

Lewin, A. Y., Massini, S., & Peeters, C. (2009) Why are companies offshoring innovation? The emerging global race for talent. Journal of International Business Studies, 40(6): 901-925.

Narula, R., & Santangelo, G. D. (2009) Location, collocation and R&D alliances in the European ICT industry. Research Policy, 38(2): 393-403.

Oxley, J. E. (1999). Institutional environment and the mechanisms of governance: the impact of intellectual property protection on the structure of inter-firm alliances. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 38(3), 283-309.

 
Last updated on 13-09-2018