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Transnational Management (MASTER)

Goals

Objectives:
- To provide insight into the forces and dynamics that shape the context of transnational management.
- To identify the type of multinational companies according to the Bartlett & Ghoshal typology.
- To analyse organizational structures of multinational companies and their corresponding challenges.
- To analyse headqurter-subsidiary relationships and their corresponding challenges.
- To identify and analyse sources of competitive advantage and business models of multinational companies.
- To identify key managerial challenges in multinational companies.
- To appropriately analyse selected case studies of multinational companies and provide solutions to illustrated problems and issues.
- To identify and address ethical and sustainability challenges for multinational companies.
- To apply analytical tools and theoretical models/frameworks to real-life international managerial situations and propose concrete solutions to aid managerial decision making in multinational companies.

Syllabus

1. Globalization and its managerial implications
2. Expanding abroad: motivations, means and mentalities (with a special emphasis on the Bartlett & Ghoshal typology).
3. Understanding the international context.
4. Developing transnational strategies: c ompetitive advantage and business models for the international environment.
5. Developing transnational organization: o rganizational structures & challenges of multinational companies.
6. Headquarter-subsidiary relationships in multinational companies.
7. International human resources, leadership and managing cross-cultural differences.
8. Technology, innovation and disruption: consequences and challenges for multinational enterprises .
9. Dealing with radical uncertain global future.
10. Ethical and sustainability challenges of transnational managers.

Contacts

Tamara Pavasović Trošt

Office hours

Monday at 14:00

room P-349

Office hours this week will be on Tuesday Feb. 25 instead of Monday Feb. 24 from 14-15h. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Business portrait of Tamara Pavašović Trost in the green atrium of the School of Economics and Business on a sunny day in June 2024

Gregor Pfajfar

Office hours

Monday at 9:00

room P-214/2

Anastas Vangeli

Office hours

Tuesday at 10:00

room P-330/Zoom

11. 3 - no office hours, please contact me to arrange a meeting

Business portrait of Anastas Vangeli in the library of the School of Economics and Business in October 2024, with a round window and shelves full of books in the background