Course content

Resources and capabilities, ethics, strategy perspectives, competition, strategy choices and paradigms.

Learning outcome

Upon completion of the course, the student:

Knowledge:

• Have broad knowledge of how strategic processes take place in sustainable organizations
• Know modern research in the field of strategy with special emphasis on the resource-based paradigm.
• Is able to update their knowledge by understanding strategic aspects of case descriptions

Skills:

• Can apply and make reasoned choices based on a theoretical understanding of the field of strategy
• Can reflect on own choices in the field of strategy
• Can master relevant tools and forms of expression in the field

General competence:

• Has insight into issues related to competition environment, competitive prerequisites and abilities
• Know new thinking and innovations in the strategy field.

Learning methods and activities

Lectures/Group work/mandatory assignments/supervising. There are two mandatory assignment requirements to be passed in order to be able to have the exam

Compulsory assignments

• Assignments

Specific conditions

Recommended previous knowledge

SMF2298 Technology Management

SMF1194 Business Administration with Accounting

SMF1196 Marketing

Required previous knowledge

SMF2281 Business strategy

Course materials

Strategic Management (2015) Lynch, Pearson 7th edition, ISBN: 978-1292064666

Further reading will be announced later

Credit reductions