Management & Organization of Asian Enterprises

Academic year 2011-12

Date last modified

23-4-2012 1:29

Period

Period 1

Startdate:

05-Sep-11

Enddate:

28-Oct-11

Code

SSC3045

ECTS credits

5.0

Organisational unit

University College Maastricht

Coordinator

A.P. van Veen

Description

This course will focus on the Asian enterprise and its setting. Issues and topics for analysis are: • Business system and management process • Interlinkages with external environment • Leadership & HRM (human resource management ) • Production & innovation management • Internationalization (operating abroad) • Quality management • IPR (intellectual property right) • CSR (corporate social responsibility) • Management of technology. • International competition and cooperation. • FDI (foreign direct investment) & technology transfer. These issues will be dealt with from a comparative perspective and discussed alternately in lectures and seminars. The Asian countries to be investigated include China, Korea, Japan, India and selected countries from the South-East Asian region. The course is in particular of interest for students who consider doing business/an exchange/master program in Asia.

Goals

• This course aims to introduce students to Asian management systems and specific problems that management of Asian firms/firms located in Asia faces.

Instruction language

Prerequisites

Recommended literature

The main text book for the course will be: • Hasegawa, Harukiyo and Carlos Noronha, editors (2009), Asian Business and Management: Theory, Practice and Perspectives, Palgrave Macmillan. A collection of academic journal articles will also constitute additional readings – to be announced.

Teaching methods

PBL
PRESENTATION(S)
LECTURE(S)
ASSIGNMENT(S)
PAPER(S)

Assessment methods

FINAL PAPER
ATTENDANCE
PARTICIPATION
WRITTEN EXAM
ORAL EXAM
TAKE HOME EXAM

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