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Unit Summary
Pre-requisites
144 Credit Points
Unit aim
Provides opportunities to apply established strategy frameworks and tools to contemporary organisational contexts to understand the pursuit of sustainable competitive advantage. The unit encourages students to critically engage with the latest thinking about the realities of strategy as a complex social practice characterised by politicised processes. The unit integrates and applies knowledge gained in previous units.
Unit content
Module 1: Strategy formation: History and Strategy Development
Module 2: Internal analysis: Strategic capability and culture
Module 3: External analysis: The macro and industry environment
Module 4: Evaluating levels of strategy and strategic options
Module 5: Implementing strategy
Module 6: Business ethics, corporate governance & corporate social responsibility
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | |
|---|---|
| 1 | demonstrate an understanding of strategic management tools, frameworks and processes |
| 2 | apply strategic management theories to the analysis of real-world case studies |
| 3 | critique the strategic management approach of a contemporary organisation |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- demonstrate an understanding of strategic management tools, frameworks and processes
- apply strategic management theories to the analysis of real-world case studies
- critique the strategic management approach of a contemporary organisation
Prescribed texts
- Students only require the "text only" version of this book. It is not necessary to purchase the "text and cases" version: Whittington, R, Regner, P, Angwin, D, Johnson, G & Scholes, K, 2020, Exploring Strategy, 12th edn, Pearson Education, Harlow (UK). ISBN: 9781292282510 .
- Students only require the "text only" version of this book. It is not necessary to purchase the "text and cases" version: Whittington, R, Regner, P, Angwin, D, Johnson, G & Scholes, K, 2020, Exploring Strategy, 12th edn, Pearson Education, Harlow (UK). ISBN: 9781292282510 .
- Students only require the "text only" version of this book. It is not necessary to purchase the "text and cases" version: Whittington, R, Regner, P, Angwin, D, Johnson, G & Scholes, K, 2020, Exploring Strategy, 12th edn, Pearson Education, Harlow (UK). ISBN: 9781292282510 .
- Students only require the "text only" version of this book. It is not necessary to purchase the "text and cases" version: Whittington, R, Regner, P, Angwin, D, Johnson, G & Scholes, K, 2020, Exploring Strategy, 12th edn, Pearson Education, Harlow (UK). ISBN: 9781292282510 .