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2024/2025  BA-BIBAO4021U  Marketing

English Title
Marketing

Course information
Language English
Course ECTS 7.5 ECTS
Type Mandatory (also offered as elective)
Level Bachelor
Duration One Semester
Start time of the course Spring
Timetable Course schedule will be posted at calendar.cbs.dk
Study board
Study Board for BSc in Business, Asian Language and Culture
Course coordinator
  • Fumiko Kano Glückstad - Department of Management, Society and Communication (MSC)
Main academic disciplines
  • Customer behaviour
  • Marketing
Teaching methods
  • Blended learning
Last updated on 22-05-2024

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Learning objectives
Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to demonstrate:
  • Knowledge about and understanding of theories, concepts and models, as well as analytical methods around the marketing management.
  • Skills for managing a market research (empirical study) and for conducting analyses of consumers- and business markets.
  • Competences to formulate a research question, and answer it based on an empirical study.
  • Competences to critically select appropriate theories, concepts or models, and integrate them into an empirical study.
  • Competences to interpret the results of an empirical study, and develop marketing strategies and plans suitable for a targeted market.
  • Competences to discuss important and relevant issues on the contemporary marketing in Asia, such as the role of technology, digitalization, sustainability, CSR and ethics.
Prerequisites for registering for the exam (activities during the teaching period)
Number of compulsory activities which must be approved (see section 13 of the Programme Regulations): 1
Compulsory home assignments
1 of 2 group assignments must be approved.

There will be no retake option for students who are missing assignments and have not made attempts in any of the assignments.

The size of each compulsory group assignments are max.10 pages and should be written in groups of 4-5 students
Examination
Marketing:
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 Project
Release of assignment An assigned subject is released in class
Duration Written product to be submitted on specified date and time.
Grading scale 7-point grading scale
Examiner(s) Internal examiner and external examiner
Exam period Summer
Make-up exam/re-exam
Same examination form as the ordinary exam
The re-exam should be built up on one of the cases used in the two compulsory group assignments. Students who handed in a product for the ordinary exam shall base their assignment on a different case than the case used for the ordinary exam
Description of the exam procedure

The exam assignment should be built up on one of the cases used in two compulsory group assignments.


The exam must be handed in through Digital Exam.
Course content, structure and pedagogical approach

For Western - especially for European - companies, establishing a competitive position in the Asian markets requires skills to capture cultural insights of the markets, and develop unique marketing strategies and plans based on them. The course introduces the basics of marketing management with special focus on the Asian markets.

 

The course will introduce tools to manage market research and to analyze consumers- and business markets. The course will focus on factors affecting the company’s options in the marketplace, such as institutional challenges, competitors in the targeted markets, consumer culture and company’s internal resources, and will discuss needs for adjusting a marketing plan (product positioning and communication) in a targeted market.

 

The course intends to integrate the analysis of quantitative data collected from Asian markets (e.g. from China and Japan) for facilitating students’ interpretation of real-life consumers in the markets.
Description of the teaching methods
- The course consists of two modules structured around two case-based mandatory group assignments.
- The course integrates the Marketing Signature Course Pack as course materials which facilitates students' understanding of theoretical concepts
- The two case-based mandatory group assignments are structured in a way that students apply the theoretical concepts to analyze empirical data for solving specific challenges defined in the respective case-based assignments.
- A high degree of student involvement is strived for, including students’ own insights drawing on their own experience and background
Feedback during the teaching period
Through the two case-based mandatory group assignments, the course will provide teachers' feedback to each group assignment both in the classes and in a written format.

Feedback is further offered whenever feasible. Please feel free to take full advantage of the ‘office hours’ offered by full-time staff members, although these can never be a substitute for participation in lectures and classes. We also encourage students to ask questions or make comments in class and form self-study groups to secure peer feedback on their work.
Student workload
Lectures 38 hours
Exercise classes 18 hours
Preparation for classes 56 hours
Exam and exam preparation 22 hours
Group assignments 72 hours
Further Information

Please note that this course will be discontinued and run for the last time in Spring 2028. The last exam will be offered in Summer 2029. See the programme regulations for transition notes.

Expected literature

Literature:
Marketing management: An Asian perspective; Philip Kotler, Harlow, England ; Pearson ; 2018

 

Teaching materials also include hand-outs, slidepacks, articles, cases etc. - all of which will be uploaded on Canvas.

 

Please note: these reading materials are only tentative and changes may occur. Final literature lists will be uploaded on Canvas before the course begins. 

Last updated on 22-05-2024