授業科目名 年度 学期 開講曜日・時限 学部・研究科 全担当教員 単位数
33842:[2025 春セメスター]International Business(E) 2025 春セメスター 木2 経済学部 小林 美月 2

キャンパス

BKC

授業施設

アドセミナリオ302号教室

授業で利用する言語

English

授業の概要と方法

This lecture provides you a wide range of issues related to company's international expansion. The course is designed for undergraduate students, including lecture part, case study part, and presentation and discussion part.
     Lectures cover basic concepts and theories in strategic management and international business.
     Case studies are considered to be useful for students to understand the knowledge in company's strategy and management in general, and its international expansion activities.
     Presentation and discussion encourage students to practice their expression and analytic skills.
     This course requires students to read the English textbook on the reference. The textbook is supposed to be available at Ritsumeikan Coop Book Store.
     The lecture aims at active-learning. After the lecture given by the instructor, students will be required to discuss the topic. Intensive reading and speaking are necessary for this course. Students who take this course are required to understand, speak, and write in English.

※It might be a chance to invite a guest speaker to the class (zoom) to have discussion with the students regarding certain topics.

受講生の到達目標

・Acquirement of knowledge of strategic management and international expansion.
・Improvement of students’ intellectual curiosity and analytic capability.

事前に履修しておくことが望まれる科目

授業スケジュール

授業回数/
担当教員(複数担当の場合)
テーマ
キーワード・文献・補足事項等
1

Introduction of the course

course requirement explanation
Ch.1 Globalization

2

Ch.2 National differences in political, economic, and legal systems

Collectivism and individualism, market economy and command economy, different legal systems

Discussion required

3

Ch.3 & Ch.4 National difference in economic development and culture

Culture, society, the nation-state, religions and languages

Discussion required

4

 Ch.8 Foreign direct investment

Absolute advantage, comparative advantage, the product life-cycle theory, and Porter's diamond theory.

The direction of FDI, the form of FDI, the reasons of FDI, and benefits and costs of FDI

Discussion required

5-6

Presentation regarding countries' differences and firm's FDI

preparation and presentation

7

Ch. 13 The strategy of international business

Global standardization strategy, localization strategy, international strategy , and transnational strategy

Discussion required

8

Ch. 14 The Organization of international business

Vertical differentiation (centralization and decentralization) and horizontal differentiation (the design of structure)

Discussion required

9

Ch. 15 Entry strategy

Timing of entry, scale of entry and strategic commitments, and entry modes

Discussion required

10

Ch. 17 Global production and supply chain management

Production site selection, make-or-buy decisions, global purchasing and logistics, and coordination in global supply chains


Discussion required

11

Ch. 19 Global Human Resource Management

Strategic role of global HRM, types of staffing policies, expatriate managers, global mindset, training for expatriate managers, and guidelines for performance appraisal

12-13

Presentation regarding multinational enterprises' international operation

Preparation for the presentation

14

Course review

 +R 授業<details will be announced on Manaba+R and lecture>
Final Report submission on Manaba+R

授業実施形態

Basically in-person class.

A few lectures will be scheduled on Zoom.
Zoom URL and dates will be announced later in the class and on Manaba+R.



授業外学習の指示

Read academic papers and books as many as possible for the presentations and report.

成績評価方法

種別 割合(%) 評価基準等
定期試験(筆記)

レポート試験
(統一締切日を締切とするレポート)

上記以外の試験・レポート、平常点評価
(日常的な授業における取組状況の評価)
100

Class discussion: 30%
Presentation: 20%
Final report: 50%

成績評価方法(備考)

受講および研究に関するアドバイス

教科書

書名 著者 出版社 ISBNコード 備考
International Business Competing in the Global Marketplace 13E Charles W.L. Hill and G. Tomas M. Hult McGraw Hill Education 9781260575866

教科書(使用頻度、その他補足)

参考書

参考書(使用頻度、その他補足)

参考になるwwwページ

授業内外における学生・教員間のコミュニケーションの方法

その他(教員より別途指示)

備考

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