Postgraduate Course: Outward Investment from Emerging Markets (20 credit version) (CMSE11144)
Course Outline
| School | Business School |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course is aimed to provide students with an overview of the scholarly conventions on outward investment from emerging markets. It also aims to provide students with an appreciation of additional complexities and challenges of international business for firms from emerging economies. The course covers a wide range of materials relating to major emerging markets with the major focus on major emerging economies (BRICs: Brazil, Russia, India and China) |
| Course description |
The course objectives are to help students to develop analytical skills and engagement in contemporary issues about international business and emerging markets.
The course is divided into sessions on some of the general issues driving outward investment from emerging markets, including development strategy, government policy, theoretical debates
about global economic integration, geographical distribution of FDI, global competitiveness and global business revolution, entry strategy at firm level and challenges for both firms and governments of developing economies.
Syllabus:
-Characterising the challenges and opportunities of outward investment from emerging markets
-FDI, ODI and growing overseas -Understanding the eclectic paradigm as applied to emerging markets
-Global competitive advantage and internationalisation strategies of emerging market firms
-Exploring the effects of internal and external network building by emerging market firms
-Institutional, regional and home nation impacts and influences of emerging market firm activities
-Looking ahead: Institutional, Organisational and Managerial trajectories that may affect outward investment from emerging markets in years to come
Student Learning Experience:
This module draws extensively from a practice perspective when communicating the key theoretical ideas, and the student learning experience is driven mainly by active learning principles. Effectively, this means that the contact time will be characterised by regular debate and interaction, live analysis of current cases as well as review of historical examples, and an onus on students to engage with theoretical and case reading tasks between sessions.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | For Business School PG students only, or by special permission of the School. Please contact the course secretary |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2015/16, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 20,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 10,
Other Study Hours 166,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
0 )
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| Additional Information (Learning and Teaching) |
other study
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
80 %,
Practical Exam
20 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
The assessment methods for the course consist of two parts:
(1) Group presentation which counts for 20% of the total mark; and
(2) Individual assignment which counts for 80% of the total mark.
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| Feedback |
All students will be given at least one formative feedback or feedforward event for every course they undertake, provided during the semester in which the course is taken and in time to be useful in the completion of summative work on the course. Such feedback may be at course or programme level, but must include input of relevance to each course in the latter case.
Feedback deadlines
Feedback on formative assessed work will be provided within 15 working days of submission, or in time to be of use in subsequent assessments within the course, whichever is sooner. Summative marks will be returned on a published timetable, which has been made clear to students at the start of the academic year.
Students will gain feedback on their understanding of the material when they discuss their answers to the tutorial questions in the tutorials. Students may also ask questions in Lectures to assess their knowledge. |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- 1.Understand and critically discuss specific issues associated with globalisation and development strategy for emerging economies;
- 2.Explain and critically discuss specific features and business environment of major emerging markets;
- 3.Discuss major changes in the world economy and patterns of outflows of FDI from emerging markets;
- 4.Identify and critically evaluate challenges that firms and governments in the developing countries are facing in the era of global business evolution;
- 5.Evaluate appropriate entry strategies for firms operating in international markets.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Cognitive Skills:
After completing this course, students should be able to:
-demonstrate that they understand dynamism and complexities in the global economy and the impact and consequences of globalisation
-demonstrate that they can present material on entry strategy choices for latecomer firms
Subject Specific Skills:
After completing this course, students should be able to:
- demonstrate their ability to compare and contrast economic development and business environment of major emerging markets;
- demonstrate their ability to the opportunities and challenges for firms from emerging markets in the era of globalization and entry strategies in international markets |
| Keywords | OIEM 20cr |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Ling Liu
Tel: (0131 6)51 1429
Email: Ling.Liu@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mr Peter Newcombe
Tel: (0131 6)51 3013
Email: Peter.Newcombe@ed.ac.uk |
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