- English
- GRA 6833
- 6 Credits
Introduction
The course covers key strategic issues that corporate headquarters deal with in trying to achieve a sustainable business in today’s fast-changing and increasingly global competitive arena.
The domain of corporate and global strategies comprises essentially: (i) defining appropriate boundaries for the corporation; (ii) restructuring the corporation (for example expansion, diversification, relocation, and divestment decisions); (iii) making suitable delegation decisions (i.e. allocating decision rights between corporate headquarters and subsidiary units); and (iv) managing relationships in complex (multiunit) and spatially dispersed (multilocal) corporations.
Course content
The course will focus on:
- Issues in corporate and global strategies
- The purpose and scope of corporations
- Modes of entry, operation, and expansion
- Diversification, restructuring, and divestment
- Organizing complex multinational companies
- Managing complex multinational companies
Disclaimer
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