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Course: 2023/2024

Strategic Management

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Bachelor in Employment and Labour Relations (2008 Study Plan) (Plan: 150 - Estudio: 207)

Coordinating teacher: NIETO SANCHEZ, MARIA JESUS

Department assigned to the subject: Mechanical Engineering Department

Type: Compulsory

ECTS Credits: 6.0 ECTS

Course: 3º

Semester: 1º

Objectives

- To offer the concepts, frameworks and techniques needed to make decisions in the field of strategic management. - To understand corporate governance aspects and their impact on the objectives and strategies. To understand the role of stakeholders. - To know the environmental analysis and industry analysis (industry attractiveness) identifying key sucess factors. - To examine the role of resources and capabilities in strategy formulation (specially, the role of human resources as source of competitive advantage). - To examine the emergence and sustainibility of competitive advantage. - To know the sources of competitive advantages - To understand the competitive strategy and its evolution over the industry life cicle

Skills and learning outcomes

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Description of contents: programme

Strategic management: strategies and business model Business objectives and value creation. Corporate governance. External analysis. Internal analysis. Sources of competitive advantage The competitive advantage. Business strategies and industry evolution.

Learning activities and methodology

Theoretical sessions, discussion of case studies, final project.

Assessment System

Final exam: 60% of the final grade (a minimum grade of 4 in the exam is required in order to consider continuous evaluation).
Continuous evaluation: 40% (final project development and resolution and discussion of case studies)

% end-of-term-examination 60
% of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 40

Calendar of Continuous assessment

Basic Bibliography

Grant, R. E.. Contemporary Strategic Analysis. John Wiley and Sons. 2013
Navas López, J.E. y Guerras Martín, L.A.. Fundamentals of Strategic Management. Thompson Reuters. 2013
Rodríguez, A. Nieto, MJ, Fernández, Z., Revilla, A. . Manual de Creación de Empresas. Thomson-Aranzadi. 2014

Additional Bibliography

Rothaermel, F. T. . Strategic management. McGraw-Hill. 2016

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.