Global Strategies for Growth

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• evaluate the range of strategic options that are available for the successful growth of organisations across the lifecycle in a global context;
• understand and evaluate the range of opportunities for, and challenges of, growth for entrepreneurial/innovative organisations;
• appraise strategies for growth in an integrative perspective including strategy, entrepreneurship, international business and finance.

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• the drivers, types and stages of growth in different regional and national contexts;
• the dynamic nature of strategy and strategic management across the lifecycle of growth-oriented entrepreneurial/innovative businesses;
• different strategic pathways which assist entrepreneurs/innovators in successfully meeting the challenges of growth in a global environment.
• the key challenges which a growing organisation faces, utilising an integrative perspective including strategy, entrepreneurship, international business and finance;

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• apply research skills to synthesise, analyse, interpret and critically evaluate information from a range of sources.
• self-manage the development of learning and study skills, both individually and as part of a collaborative learning group;
• recognise that in many situations there are a range of alternatives which should be evaluated;

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• evaluate alternative approaches to strategies for growth and their appropriateness to different entrepreneurial/innovative organisations in a global context.
• understand and apply appropriate theoretical concepts, models, tools and techniques which facilitate appropriate strategies for growth;

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Feedback

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback: Students are encouraged to see the module leader during office hours for any support they need with the module.
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.