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Articles and other material will be provided electronically,
Business Administration: Entrepreneurship and International Strategy
Freestanding course
About the course
Course content
On completion of the course the students will have developed knowledge about entrepreneurial business in global environment. The focus of the course will be on some driving forces for internationalisation, like international business strategies and organisation of international activities.
Business companies are not bound to the domestic market any more. The competition is letting companies become global to be able to evolve, local has become global. It has become of paramount importance to understand different international markets condition to be able to formulate a suitable market strategy that fits the company and the market in global completion. Today, core competence is very important, especially for Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME´s) need to collaborate with other companies to be able to compete on the international market arena. Entrepreneurial thinking has become very important as SME\`s enter international markets. It can be said that there are some important aspects that future companies need to take into consideration if they want to survive on the a market that could be characterized as much more competitive than before; to know what it means to be an entrepreneurial company; how to formulate international strategy; how to be international entrepreneur, and how to be creative in different aspects.
Entry requirements and selection
Entry requirements
General entry requirements for university studies.
Selection
Upper secondary grades 40%, University credits completed 20%, Swedish Scholastic Aptitude Test (SweSAT) 40%
Course literature
Course evaluation
Malmö University provides students who participate in, or who have completed a course, with the opportunity to express their opinions and describe their experiences of the course by completing a course evaluation administered by the University. The University will compile and summarise the results of course evaluations. The University will also inform participants of the results and any decisions relating to measures taken in response to the course evaluations. The results will be made available to the students (HF 1:14).
