International Business Strategy (in English)

Teaching results

Students will possess following abilities:
- to understand latest trends in internationalization and globalization of business environment andtheir impact on management of international companies,
- to understand the basic fundamentals of international success: strategic capability, partnershipcapability, staffing capability, learning capability and organizational capability,
- to understand how to use research methods for identifying best practices significant for managinginternational companies.
Students will obtain following skills:
- to apply best practices from the course in decision-making process of international companies,- to apply problem-solving procedures in international companies, to evaluate the strategy and applied management tools and their accuracy in real cases,
- to choose right methods for evaluating and choosing their strategic partners,
- to judge the best ways for managing international staff in real cases and to get the ideas for creationof knowledge management systems in the companies, - to apply selected research methods at their work.
Students will gain following competences:
- critical and analytical thinking related the right choice of foreign market, suitable method offoreign market entry, option of a suitable strategy and fitting management tools for an international success,
- diagnostic and systematic thinking when evaluating each step of internationalization and wayshow progress including the potential contribution of strategic partners and international staff, - creative thinking, creation of the paper based on the right research method, its discussion and defense within the study group, and in discussion with the course teacher.
- readiness for discussion, correct and factual argumentation, presentation of the results of ownresearch or project within the seminar work, its defense in a discussion with the teacher and colleagues in their own study group.