This course aims to alert the students to the relevance and breadth of international business and its implications, explain the motivations of international investments, analyze the process of internationalization of companies, studying the main forms of international expansion, providing the basic tools of management international operations; extracting lessons from the strategies of internationalization of Portuguese companies. This course aims to enable students to: understand the factors for choosing countries to internationalize (1); identify the modalities of internationalization (2); understand the main issues of the internationalization process (3); recognize the dimensions of Multinational Management (4)and kKnow the features and functions of management in an international context (5).
Chapter 1. Introduction to international business
Chapter 2. The environment of international business
Chapter 3. Theories of International Trade
Chapter 4 - Evaluation and Selection of Countries
Chapter 5 - Process of Internationalization of the Firm
Chapter 6 - Strategies for Export and Import
Chapter 7 - Direct Foreign Investment
Chapter 8 - Collaborative Strategies
Chapter 9 - Production and Management of Global Value Chain
Chapter 10 - Human Resource Management
Chapter 11 - International Marketing
Chapter 12 - International Finance and Accounting
Half of each class time is allocated to the presentation and discussion of key concepts, illustrated with current examples of Portuguese and international business reality and the second half is made of a discuss of a case that fits the concepts discussed.
Daniels, J.D.; Raderaugh, L.H. e Sullivan, D. (2012) International Business: Environments and Operations, Pearson Education, Inc. New Jersey.
Dunning, J.H.; Lundan, S.M. (2008) Multinational Enterprises and the Global Economy, Edward Elgar Publishing, Mass.
Hill, Charles (2012) International Business: Competing in the Global Market Place, Irwin McGraw-Hill, Chicago.
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