Transnational corporations
(co-lecturer: Professor Marzenna A. Weresa, Ph.D.)Class hours: 30
Objectives:
The aim of the course is to make students understand functioning of transnational corporations in a global environment. The course focuses on different aspects of TNCs: their types and strategies and impacts.
Course requirements and evaluation:
- final exam = 70%
- discussion papers (case studies) = 30%
RECOMMENDED READINGS:
UNCTAD (2008) World Investment Report 2008, New York and Geneva: United Nations (electronic version available at: http://www.unctad.org/en/docs/wir2008_en.pdf), Chapter I (sections A, B, D, E), chapter II (section C), Chapter IV (sections A, B), Chapter V, Annexes.
J.H.Dunning (2006), Towards a new paradigm of development; implications for international business research, “Transnational Corporations”, Vol. 15, No. 1 (April 2006), (http://www.unctad.org/en/docs/iteiit20061_en.pdf).
M.A.Weresa (ed.), Poland. Competitiveness Report 2007. The Role of Foreign Direct Investment, Warsaw School of Economics, chapters 6, 7.
ADDITIONAL READINGS:
J.H.Dunning, Multinational enterprises and the global economy, Addison-Wesley, Workingham, 1992.
J.H.Dunning, Governments, globalization, and international business, Oxford Univ. Press, 1999.
P.J.Buckley, J.L.Mucchielli (eds.) Multinational Firms and International Relocation, E.Elgar, Cheltenham, Brookfield, 1996, chapters 2, 3.
M.A.Weresa (ed.), Foreign Direct Investment in a Transition Economy. The Polish Case. SSEES UCL, London 2000, chapters 1-3, 8, 10.
TOPICS COVERED:
- TNCs in global environment; globalization processes and their determinants. M-JR 17.02.2009
- Emergence and development of TNCs and their affiliates: historical perspective. MAW 24.02.2009
- The role of TNCs in today's global economy; classifications of TNCs MAW 3.03.2009
- Definitions and characteristics of TNCs M-JR 10.03.2009
- Knowledge and innovation as a basis for TNCs activity MAW 17.03.2009
- Creating and exploiting global competitive advantage MAW 24.03.2009
- International expansion of TNCs: foreign market servicing strategies M-JR 31.03.2009
- Innovation activity of TNCs and its development MAW 4.04.2009
- Motives of foreign direct investment (FDI); types of FDI; FDI flows and stocks M-JR 21.04.2009
- Mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances of TNCs M-JR 28.04.2009
- Organizational structures of TNCs; networks and their functioning M-JR 5.05.2009
- Selected aspects of TNCs management: production, marketing , R&D activity M-JR 12.05.2009
- The impact of TNCs on host and home economies MAW 19.05.2009
- Regional integration and TNCs production networks: the case of CEC M-JR 26.05.2009
- Exam
- Mergers & Acquisitions (SGH)
- Strategia Lizbońska (SGH)
- Outsourcing and Offshoring (ASB)