International Business Strategy
(post-graduate)

This page contains hand-outs and supplementary materials for the International Business Strategy module that I taught to post-graduate students at the University of Bradford School of Management. The materials are for the academic year 1999-2000.

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Entire course	General materials	Exit visas form (5 KB)  Email 19/01/2000 (11 KB)  Surviving International Mail Surveys (100 KB)  Response Rates in International Mail Surveys (91 KB)  Staff File Collection numbers (12 KB)
Week 1 (19/01/2000)	Course overview & environment	Handouts (161 KB)  Reagan's world view (26 KB) Cartoon © 1999 by David Hawk. Used with his kind permission (thanks David!).
Week 2 (26/01/2000)	Trade and investment theories	Handouts (101 KB)  Feedback for Enron + PEST (12 KB)
Week 3 (02/02/2000)	Modes of foreign market servicing I	Handouts (172 KB)  Acquisitions vs. Greenfields (70 KB)
Week 4 (09/02/2000)	Modes of foreign market servicing II	Handouts (111 KB)
Week 5 (16/02/2000)	Strategy, structure and control in MNCs	Handouts (113 KB)  Societal Embeddedness (101 KB)
Week 6 (23/02/2000)	Manufacturing & materials management	Handouts (148 KB)  MNC Integration (49 KB)
Week 7 (01/03/2000)	Global marketing and R&D	Handouts (193 KB)
Week 8 (08/03/2000)	Managing for international competitiveness	Handouts (87 KB)