363-0392-00L Strategic Management
Semester | Autumn Semester 2017 |
Lecturers | G. von Krogh |
Periodicity | every semester recurring course |
Language of instruction | English |
Comment | Number of participants limited to 80. Registration through myStudies (first come, first served). If you are unable to sign up through myStudies, please contact the course assistant: Link |
Abstract | This courses conveys concepts and methods in strategic management, with a focus on competitive strategy. Competitive strategy aims at improving and establishing position of firms within an industry. |
Objective | The lecture "Strategic Management" is designed to teach relevant competences in strategic planning and -implementation, for both professional work-life and further scientific development. The course provides an overview of the basics of “strategy” and the most prevalent concepts and methods in strategic management. The course is given as a combination of lectures about concepts/methods, and case studies where the students solve strategic issues of the case companies. In two sessions, the students will also be addressing real-time strategic issues of firms that are represented by executives. |
Content | Contents: a. Strategy concepts b. Industry dynamics I: Industry analysis c. Industry dynamics II: Analysis of technology and innovation d. The resource-based theory of the firm e. The knowledge-based theory of the firm |
Prerequisites / Notice | Number of participants limited to 80. Registration through myStudies (first come, first served). You will receive a confirmation email from us once you have successfully registered. We do not use the mystudies-Waiting List, but a seperate internal system. For further questions and if you are unable to sign up through myStudies, please contact the course assistant: Link Session #0: (September 25) Organizational Issues Session #1: (October 2) Strategy Concepts & How to Solve a Case Session #2: (October 23) Industry Dynamics I & Guest lecture I Session #3: (October 30) Guest Lecture II Session #4: (November 6) Industry Dynamics II Session #5: (November 13) Resource-Based Theory Session #6: (November 20) Knowledge-based Theory Session #7: (November 27) Guest Lecture III For participants of the MAS-MTEC program we offer a complentary course Practicing Strategy in which students will apply the concepts of Strategic Management to their real-life contexts and organizations. Please register simultaneously for both courses if you want to take part in this course. For more information please see: Link |