BU5027 - Business Strategy & Organisation

Credit Points: 15

Course Co-ordinator: Dr Raluca Bunduchi

Pre-requisite(s): Students must be registered for Postgraduate programmes in Business Administration or Management, Enterprise & Innovation.

Co-requisite(s): Students will follow this course alongside the other core (compulsory) components of their degree programme.

Note(s): None.

The Business Strategy and Organisation course will apply theories, concepts and techniques of analysis, developed mainly in economics, but also in organisation theory and in economic sociology to realistic business situations. The strategy aspect recognises that most decisions are significant, irreversible and made in situations of uncertainty. The organisation aspect recognises that decisions are made in strictures and institutional settings, such as business organisations, product markets, finance markets and in business-to-business and business-to-consumer relationships. The course will be appropriate to (pg) level five teaching because it will present students with different theoretical and conceptual approaches, which draw on different assumptions about human agency and institutional and structural durability. Hence, students will receive an introduction to game theory, with its concepts of stable equilibrium, and also to behavioural theories of strategy, which are procedural and based on agents' routines, standard operating procedures and durable capabilities. Lectures will introduce theories, concepts and techniques of analysis. Seminars will be of equal significance and will focus on applications, mainly through case studies. Students will also learn case studies as an approach to pedagogy. Coursework will involve students undertaking their own independent case study analyses.

12 2hr lectures, 6x 1hr seminars, directed background and additional reading, coursework preparation, examination preparation.

1 two-hour written examination (100%).