MSc International Business (Online)

1. Interpret theories and practices relevant to international business strategy.
2. Assess international business problems from multi-stakeholder perspectives
3. Apply conceptual frameworks relevant to international business to cross-cultural environments.

BEMM492Z International Business Project- Planning and Practice: This module will take a case study approach to understanding the challenges organisations face when competing in global environments and from multi-stakeholder perspectives (ILOs 1-3).

BEMM491Z: Cross-Cultural Management: Provides students with an understanding of cross-cultural behavioural theories in the context of global organisations and multi-stakeholder perspectives (ILO’s 1-3).

BEMM490Z International Business and Globalisation: This module focuses on how companies conduct business across borders and explores various economic systems, cultural differences in different economies, and discusses issues from around the world to give students a global awareness (ILOs 1-3).

BEMM081Z Accounting for Managerial Decision-Making: Provides students with an appreciation of the impact of an international context on accounting information and decisions (ILOs 1-3).

BEMM080Z Finance for International Managers: The module focuses on decision making in an international context, building on, and extending, the valuation framework provided by domestic corporate finance to account for dimensions that are unique to international finance (ILO’s 1-3)

BEMM493Z Global Markets: This module is designed to help students to understand the marketing process of international businesses in cross-cultural contexts. Students will draw from multi-disciplinary perspectives in order to understand how successful organizations conduct marketing strategy to build sustainable competitive advantage over their competitors (ILO’s 1-3).

Subject-specific skills (ILOs 1-3) will be assessed through individual written assignments, written examinations and a business plan project.

4. Evaluate the types of approaches International Business practitioners use when solving issues surrounding economic, social, political, cultural and legal environments.
5. Elucidate the relationship between globalisation, international business and cross-cultural contexts.
6. Reflect on practical case experiences from the international business arena.
7. Develop an ethically minded business orientation that pays a heightened sensitivity to sustainable business practice.

BEMM492Z International Business Project- Planning and Practice: The Business Plan draws from practical case study data and requires environmental scanning and situational analysis in cross-cultural contexts with an aim to develop sustainable business practice (ILOs 4-7).

BEMM491Z Cross Cultural Management: The approach of this module is a practice-based approach to understanding the relationship between organisational behaviour and international business. This course highlights multi-stakeholder perspectives and sustainable organisational practice in organisations competing in cross-cultural contexts. (ILOs 4-7).

BEMM490Z International Business and Globalisation: This module focuses on how companies conduct business across borders and explores various economic systems, cultural differences in different economies, and discusses issues from around the world to give students a global awareness and an understanding of sustainability (ILOs 4-7).

BEMM0817 Accounting for Managerial Decision-Making: Concepts and techniques are taught to reflect that it is the responsibility of all organisations to make ethical financial decisions and actions and to provide financial information so that stakeholders can make their own informed decisions (ILOs 4-7).

BEMM493Z Global Markets: Highlights topics relevant to marketing in international business from cross disciplinary areas of research and business practice. A core objective of the model is a heightened sensitivity to ethical business practice (ILOs 4-7).

BEMM081Z Finance for International Managers: Explores issues on how firms fund themselves ethically. This course highlights how firms choose between different types of international financial instruments and how those financing decisions vary in international contexts (ILOs 4-7).

Subject-specific skills (ILOs 4-7) will be assessed through individual written assignments, written examinations and a business plan project.

8. A Global Outlook: Our graduates are engaged and prepared for the demands of global business and society.
9. A Critical Thinker: Our graduates have a commercial awareness that enables them to critically analyse, conceptualise and evaluate the challenges facing business.
10. A Collaborative Mind-set: Our graduates are enterprising and motivated individuals who are able to actively collaborate and effectively communicate within a range of diverse settings.
11. An Ethical Ethos: Our graduates understand the social, financial and environmental factors that can impact on corporate sustainability
12. Technological and Digital Literacy: Our graduates are able to use technologies to source, process and communicate information.

8.     A Global Outlook

BEMM493Z Global Markets:

The online content is specifically designed to train students to look at global business problems from a variety of different perspectives that ultimately inform organisational decision-making and global strategy.

BEMM492Z International Business Project- Planning and Practice: This module will take a case study approach to understanding the challenges organisations face when competing in global environments.

BEMM491Z: Cross Cultural Management: Provides students with an understanding of behavioural theories in the context of global organisations.

BEMM490Z: International Business & Globalisation: This module focuses on how companies conduct business across borders and explores various economic systems, cultural differences in different economies, and discusses issues from around the world to give students a global awareness.

BEMM081Z: Accounting for Managerial Decision-Making: Provides students with an appreciation of the impact of an international context on accounting information and decisions.

BEMM080Z: Finance for International Managers: Stresses the integrated nature to the world economy and the importance of understanding the risk and opportunities that globalisation brings.

 9.     A Critical Thinker

BEMM493Z Global Markets: Students take a cross-disciplinary perspective on marketing issues and integrate them into their own worldview.

BEMM492Z International Business Project- Planning and Practice:

Students critically analyse, discuss and apply theories relevant to international business and present managerial recommendations.

BEMM491Z Cross Cultural Management: This module challenges students to question basic assumptions associated with our understanding of organisational behaviour and explore new insights into OB in a theoretical and practical manner.

BEMM490Z International Business & Globalisation: This module develops student knowledge of where, why and how to conduct international business in order to gain an understanding of what determines the success and failure of firms conducting international business.

BEMM081Z Accounting for Managerial Decision-Making: Highlights how good managers need to be able to understand and interpret accounting results, but also know the limitations of the methods used, and incorporate other considerations.

BEMM080Z Finance for International Managers: Students take a critical approach to understanding the aspects to financial management in order to develop their own opinions about international investments and money management that international operations involve.

 8.     A Collaborative Mind-set

Collaboration is a key feature of the programme and each module actively supports and encourages a willingness to communicate, share and collaborate through engagement with leading scholarship, theory, and practical examples.

Throughout the programme you will be encouraged to engage with debates and refine your ideas. This collaborative thinking can be immediately applied to business interactions and business practice within the workplace.

The core collaboration and communication skills will be formally assessed in BEMM492Z International Business Project- Planning and Practice.

 11.  An Ethical Ethos

BEMM493Z Global Markets: This module features contemporary issues in the field, which include business ethics and environmental sustainability.

BEMM492Z International Business Project- Planning and Practice Students write about business practice and prepare critiques of those practices using approaches in a manner that is consistent with ethical business practice and environmental sustainability.

BEMM081Z Accounting for Managerial Decision-Making Concepts and techniques are taught to reflect that it is the responsibility of all organisations to make ethical financial decisions and actions and to provide financial information so that stakeholders can make their own informed decisions.

 12.  Technological and Digital Literacy

Digital literacies will be developed as you progress through this online programme. You will complete guided independent study engaging and interacting with the variety of online content, using relevant case studies and recent academic research, presented through a variety of online resources and media. You will develop a familiarity with essential digital tools throughout your studies and also through the variety of assessments you will be submitting.

Subject-specific skills (ILOs 8-12) will be assessed through individual written assignments, written examinations and a business plan project.