BAHÇEŞEHİR UNIVERSITY BİLGİ PAKETİ / DERS KATALOĞU
| ECONOMICS AND FINANCE | |||||
| Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 | ||
Course Introduction and Application Information
| Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
| IB4632 | International Business | Fall | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| This catalog is for information purposes. Course status is determined by the relevant department at the beginning of semester. |
Basic information
| Language of instruction: | English |
| Type of course: | Non-Departmental Elective |
| Course Level: | Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle) |
| Mode of Delivery: | Face to face |
| Course Coordinator : | Dr. Öğr. Üyesi AYLA ESEN |
| Course Lecturer(s): |
Dr. Öğr. Üyesi AYLA ESEN |
| Recommended Optional Program Components: | None |
| Course Objectives: | The main objective of this course is to provide relevant theoretical and practical insights to management students so that the real world of global business is better understood. |
Learning Outcomes
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The students who have succeeded in this course; I. Explores these challenges with a discussion of the strategic motivations that drive firms to invest abroad. II. Discusses the environmental forces shaping the firms’ decisions of going abroad. III. Focuses on international business strategies to create value from international operations, including opportunities created from recent technological breakthroughs in areas such as bandwidth and digitization. IV. Examines the organizational challenges involved in implementing such strategies internationally. V. Discusses the strategies of multinational enterprises that are willing to access triad markets as well as emerging economies of Asia, Latin America and Africa. |
Course Content
| 1st Week: Introduction. 2nd Week: Globalization 3rd Week: National Differences in Political Economy 4th Week: Differences in Culture 5th Week: Political Economy of International Trade 6th Week: Foreign Direct Investment 7th Week: Regional Economic Integration 8th Week: Midterm 9th Week: The Strategy of International Business 10th Week: Entering Foreign Markets 11th Week: Global Production, Outsourcing and Logistics 12th Week: Global Marketing and R&D 13th Week: Global Human Resource Management 14th Week: General review and wrap-up. |
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
| Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
| 1) | 1st Week: Introduction | |
| 2) | 2nd Week: Globalization | |
| 3) | 3rd Week: National Differences in Political Economy | |
| 4) | 4th Week: Differences in Culture | |
| 5) | 5th Week: Political Economy of International Trade | |
| 6) | 6th Week: Foreign Direct Investment | |
| 7) | 7th Week: Regional Economic Integration | |
| 8) | 8th Week: Review | |
| 9) | 9th Week: The Strategy of International Business | |
| 10) | 10th Week: Entering Foreign Markets | |
| 11) | 11th Week: Global Production, Outsourcing and Logistics | |
| 12) | 12th Week: Global Marketing and R&D | |
| 13) | 13th Week: Global Human Resource Management | |
| 14) | 14th Week: General review and wrap-up. |
Sources
| Course Notes / Textbooks: | Global Business Today (2011) Charles W. L. Hill, 8th ed., McGraw-Hill. |
| References: | Multinational Enterprises and the Global Economy (2008) John H. Dunning and Sarianna M. Lundan, 2nd. Edition, Edward Elgar, Cheltanham. International Business (2004) Griffin and Pustay, Prentice Hall, International Edition. International Management (2000) Paul W. Beamish, Allen J. Morrison, Philiph M. Rosenzweig and Andrew C. Inkpen, Mc-Graw Hill. Transnational Management (1995) Christopher A. Bartlett and Sumantra Ghoshal, 2nd edition, Mc-Graw Hill. Managing Across Borders: The Transnational Solution (1998) Christopher A. Bartlett and Sumantra Ghoshal, 2nd edition, Harvard Business School Press. |
Evaluation System
| Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
| Quizzes | 3 | % 15 |
| Midterms | 1 | % 35 |
| Final | 1 | % 50 |
| Total | % 100 | |
| PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 50 | |
| PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 50 | |
| Total | % 100 | |
ECTS / Workload Table
| Activities | Number of Activities | Workload |
| Course Hours | 14 | 40 |
| Study Hours Out of Class | 15 | 120 |
| Quizzes | 3 | 3 |
| Midterms | 1 | 2 |
| Final | 1 | 2 |
| Total Workload | 167 | |
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
| No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
| Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
| 1) | Build up a body of knowledge in mathematics and statistics, to use them, to understand how the mechanism of economy –both at micro and macro levels – works. | 3 |
| 2) | Understand the common as well as distinctive characters of the markets, industries, market regulations and policies. | 2 |
| 3) | Develop an awareness of different approaches to the economic events and why and how those approaches have been formed through the Economic History and understand the differences among those approaches by noticing at what extent they could explain the economic events. | 1 |
| 4) | Analyze the interventions of politics to the economics and vice versa. | 3 |
| 5) | Apply the economic analysis to everyday economic problems and evaluate the policy proposals for those problems by comparing opposite approaches. | 2 |
| 6) | Understand current and new economic events and how the new approaches to the economics are formed and evaluating. | 2 |
| 7) | Develop the communicative skills in order to explain the specific economic issues/events written, spoken and graphical form. | 3 |
| 8) | Know how to formulate the economics problems and issues and define the solutions in a well-formed written form, which includes the hypothesis, literature, methodology and results / empirical evidence. | 2 |
| 9) | Demonstrate the quantitative and qualitative capabilities and provide evidence for the hypotheses and economic arguments. | 2 |
| 10) | Understand the information and changes related to the economy by using a foreign language and communicate with colleagues. | 3 |