The modules studied on the International Business and Supply Change Management programme actively encourage you to apply theory and modelling tools to acquire and expand your innovation creativity problem-solving and judgement skills to evaluate assess and make justified business and financial decisions and reasoning within key business and supply chain areas focusing on real world scenarios discussions debates and complex challenges.
You will develop a depth of knowledge through the analysis of theory to practice enabling you to build specialised and in-demand skillsets as you explore current and future areas within international business and supply chain management equipping you with the knowledge and tools needed to enhance your prospects and make a professional impact on your future career.
Taught Modules
Corporate Strategy and International Management (core): This module provides insights into the factors influencing the formulation and implementation of strategy within an international business environment taking account of internal and external business and environmental factors and challenges that impact and influence strategy and leadership and how this translates to management and operations.
Finance and Accounting for Business (core): This module focuses on the imparting of knowledge regarding the preparation and analysis of financial statements as well as the fundamentals of finance and financial reporting at national and international level. It also considers the structure of the financial markets and the environments in which they operate.
International Organisational Branding (core 20 credits): This module enables you to take a strategic approach to organisational branding and branding strategies that influence its reputation workforce products and management across various organisational functions to discover and recognize the value of branding and brand management within the business landscape.
Subject Specific Modules
International Operations and Supply Chain Management (core subject pathway): This module aims to present the theoretical elements which contribute to the effective operation of a supply chain within a contemporary changing business environment where turbulence and rapid customer responses are the priority. It aims to enable the study of operations and supply chain systems and their management and the changing global external context in which they operate.
Linear Programme and Time Series Predication (core subject pathway): The aim of this module is to equip you with the fundamental linear programme simulation and modelling techniques required to solve managerial problems and optimise any supply chain decisions.
Optional Modules
International Entrepreneurship (option): Explore different entrepreneurial processes concepts theoretical models and the role culture plays on how to start develop and manage a global venture as well as the study of the environmental factors affecting international entrepreneurship discovering how entrepreneurs make choices on a domestic & international level including international expansion and the global monetary environment.
Globalisation and Contemporary Issues in International Business (option): Investigate and examine the trends in international business and consider how they contribute towards a greater interdependence among economies new and emerging international markets technologies and political developments.
International Business Principles and Practice (option - 20 credits): Examine the international business practice and principles that are undertaken within business and organisations within a global context encouraging development and engagement in critical understanding of this subject area from a management perspective. You will critically examine contemporary business practices and you will research and study the impact of these on the wider business environment via theory-based analyses as well as looking at what business practices and principles will shape the future of global business economies and societies.
Dissertation Modules
Research Methods and Dissertation: You will learn about the nature and makeup of academic research and methodologies that align with research frameworks whilst being introduced to analytical techniques approaches to sampling and research ethic before completing a research proposal in your subject area of programme study. You will complete a dissertation research project pursuing the research question you proposed in the module Research Methods. Over the course of the module you will: design your research instrument; secure approval; collect data; analyse data; and write up your research.
If completing with Advanced Practice you will complete a 12-week internship in addition to the above.
Advanced Practice Placement
All business programmes are offered with an additional advanced practice module which provides you with the opportunity for increased credits through undertaking a 3-month internship in a company. This helps provide you with fantastic future employability opportunities and the chance to use the knowledge gained during your taught programmes in real life projects.
(The university does not secure placements and it is your responsibility to organise this).
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