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Strategic Management, Corporate Responsibility and Business Legitimacy

Semester
E2021
Subject
Business Administration and Leadership *
Activitytype
master course
Teaching language
English
Registration

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Detailed description of content

Through this course, the student gains a critical insight into strategic management, including how the firm relates itself to the environment, through planning and organizing strategic processes. In recent years, notions of responsibility, ethics, and legitimacy, have moved from the periphery to becoming more central problems of an existential character. The course therefore aims to provide students with a broad understanding of strategic management and responsible leadership. It also aims to provide a range of tools of analysis with which they can analyze specific firms and their challenges, and develop strategic actions, that are legitimate, ethical, and responsible.

Expected work effort (ECTS-declaration)

10 ECTS Lectures in class : 40 hours Preparation and reading: 130 Hours Exam (including preparation): 100 hours Hours in total: 270

Course material and Reading list

Students are introduced to key topics in strategy, including corporate strategy, business strategy, and international strategy. They also examine strategy as practice.

Administration of exams
ISE Studieadministration (ise-studieadministration@ruc.dk)
Responsible for the activity
Jacob Dahl Rendtorff (jacrendt@ruc.dk)
Kristian J. Sund (sund@ruc.dk)
ECTS
10
Learning outcomes/Assessment criteria
  • Knowledge about theories regarding the strategic management of the firm, as well as the manager’s role in strategic planning and implementation

  • Understanding of the firm’s relationship to its external environment, its responsibility, ethics, and corporate legitimacy

  • • Understanding of strategic capabilities, processes, and organization in relation to changes in the environment

  • Skills in acquiring knowledge about different theoretical perspectives on the firm’s relationship to its environment, and to competitiveness

  • Skills in relating theoretical reflections to practical situations, where theoretical insights can improve the description of the firm’s challenges, strategies and processes

  • Skills in developing and evaluating relevant strategies on the basis of specific firm examples and contexts

  • Skills in critically analyzing and communicating knowledge about problems regarding the strategic management, organization and development of the firm, including the firm’s responsibility, ethics, and legitimacy

  • Competence to independently identify and use a range of tools to solve specific strategic problems

  • Competence to understand the consequences of new knowledge and identify the limits of application of this knowledge

  • Competence to reflect on the usefulness of theories and tools in a variety of contexts

Overordnet indhold

Through this course, the student gains a critical insight into strategic management, including how the firm relates itself to the environment, through planning and organizing strategic processes. In recent years, notions of responsibility, ethics, and legitimacy, have moved from the periphery to becoming more central problems of an existential character. The course therefore aims to provide students with a broad understanding of strategic management and responsible leadership. It also aims to provide a range of tools of analysis with which they can analyze specific firms and their challenges, and develop strategic actions, that are legitimate, ethical, and responsible

Type

Elective course

Undervisnings- og arbejdsform

There will be a series of regular lectures, with some associated exercises.

Form of examination
Individual written take-home assignment given by the lecturer.

The character limit of the assignment is: 19,200-24,000 characters, including spaces.
The character limit includes the cover, table of contents, bibliography, figures and other illustrations, but exclude any appendices.

The duration of the take-home assignment is 21 days and may include weekends and public holidays.




Assessment: 7-point grading scale.
Form of Re-examination
Samme som ordinær eksamen / same form as ordinary exam
Exam code(s)
Exam code(s) : U41439
Last changed 03/05/2021

lecture list:

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Friday 10-09-2021 08:15 - 10-09-2021 12:00 in week 36
Strategic Management, Corporate Responsibility and Business Legitimacy (BAL)

Friday 17-09-2021 08:15 - 17-09-2021 12:00 in week 37
Strategic Management, Corporate Responsibility and Business Legitimacy (BAL)

Friday 24-09-2021 08:15 - 24-09-2021 12:00 in week 38
Strategic Management, Corporate Responsibility and Business Legitimacy (BAL)

Friday 01-10-2021 08:15 - 01-10-2021 12:00 in week 39
Strategic Management, Corporate Responsibility and Business Legitimacy (BAL)

Friday 08-10-2021 08:15 - 08-10-2021 12:00 in week 40
Strategic Management, Corporate Responsibility and Business Legitimacy (BAL)

Friday 15-10-2021 08:15 - 15-10-2021 12:00 in week 41
Strategic Management, Corporate Responsibility and Business Legitimacy (BAL)

Friday 22-10-2021 08:15 - 22-10-2021 12:00 in week 42
Strategic Management, Corporate Responsibility and Business Legitimacy (BAL)

Friday 29-10-2021 08:15 - 29-10-2021 12:00 in week 43
Strategic Management, Corporate Responsibility and Business Legitimacy (BAL)

Friday 05-11-2021 08:15 - 05-11-2021 12:00 in week 44
Strategic Management, Corporate Responsibility and Business Legitimacy (BAL)

Friday 12-11-2021 08:15 - 12-11-2021 12:00 in week 45
Strategic Management, Corporate Responsibility and Business Legitimacy (BAL)

Monday 15-11-2021 10:00 - Monday 06-12-2021 10:00 in week 46 to week 49
Strategic Management, Corporate Responsibility and Business Legitimacy - Exam (BAL)

Monday 07-02-2022 08:15 - Monday 28-02-2022 18:00 in week 06 to week 09
Strategic Management, Corporate Responsibility and Business Legitimacy - Reexam (BAL)