International Management is an advanced undergraduate module in the bachelor’s degree in Business Administration. In the course of the semester, we first focus on international differences in formal and informal institutions. National-level institutions are frameworks within which multinational enterprises (MNEs) do business around the world. We get to know the particularities of national institutional frameworks in some of the largest economies and we learn about how researchers have classified such institutional frameworks into typologies. We then turn our focus to MNEs as organisations. We examine how MNEs have been theoretically conceived and inquire how they maintain a balance between global integration and local adaptation in their international activities. We focus particularly on questions of strategy, governance and human resource management. We address the underrepresentation of women in international management. A particular focus of the course is undergraduate research and inquiry. We provide insights into current research in the discipline regarding the governance of international labour standards and international management implications of the current transition to electric vehicles in the auto industry.

To successfully complete the module, each student must sign up and participate actively in one assignment in one tutorial during the semester.