Corporate Strategy

Course aim

This course builds on the Competitive Strategy course. It addresses the challenges facing executives of multi-business firms who need to deal with increasing community expectations for economic, societal and environmental sustainability of their organisations. The course starts with the issues of economic sustainability by exploring the various forms of corporate strategies and how they create value. It then moves on to the broader role of the corporation in society by focusing on the issues of corporate social responsibility, ethics, corporate governance and environmental responsibility.

Course content

The following topics will be covered in this course:

• The link between competitive advantage, competitive strategy and corporate strategy;
• Creating corporate advantage;
• Related and unrelated diversification strategies;
• Corporate restructurers and private equity;
• The institutional, industry and global contexts of corporate strategy;
• Managing the corporation;
• Leadership and corporate change;
• Corporate governance and ethics;
• Corporate social responsibility and environmental sustainability.

Textbook(s)

Nil

Prerequisite(s)

Subject Area & Catalogue Number	Course Name
Group 1
BUSS 5250	Competitive Strategy PG
BUSS 5249	Managerial Finance
BUSS 5244	Contemporary Management Skills
Group 2
BUSS 5250	Competitive Strategy PG
BUSS 5249	Managerial Finance
BUSS 5246	Leading and Managing People
Group 3
BUSS 5250	Competitive Strategy PG
BUSS 5249	Managerial Finance
BUSS 5243	Leadership Dynamics

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Component	Duration
INTERNAL, CITY WEST
Seminar	3 hours x 11 weeks
EXTERNAL, CITY WEST, ONLINE
External	3 hours equiv. x 11 weeks
EXTERNAL, OFFSHORE, HOPKINS TRAINING AND EDUCATION GROUP, ONLINE
External	3 hours equiv. x 11 weeks
INTERNAL, OFFSHORE, SOUTHWEST JIATONG UNIVERSITY, MANDARIN
Seminar	8 hours x 3 days
INTERNAL, OFFSHORE, JIANGXI UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOM, MANDARIN
Seminar	8 hours x 3 days

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Assessment

Class contribution - preparation of case study answers and contribution to discussion, Examination, Group project, Individual assignment, Online weekly discussions

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
Commonwealth Supported program (Band 3)
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* Equivalent Full Time Study Load. Please note: all EFTSL values are published and calculated at ten decimal places. Values are displayed to three decimal places for ease of interpretation.