MSc INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

Overview

Mode	Duration	Start date	Application code	Application method
ModeFull-time	Duration12 months	Start dateSeptember	Application code4763	Application method Direct to LSBU
ModePart-time	Duration24 months	Start dateSeptember	Application code4764	Application method Direct to LSBU
ModeFull-time	Duration15 months	Start dateJanuary	Application code5344	Application method Direct to LSBU

International students

The course is not currently open to international students.

International (non Home) applicants should follow our international how to apply guide.

Home/EU applicants

Mode	Duration	Start date	Application code	Application method
Mode Full-time	Duration 12 months	Start date September	Application code 4763	Application method Direct to LSBU
Mode Part-time	Duration 24 months	Start date September	Application code 4764	Application method Direct to LSBU
Mode Full-time	Duration 15 months	Start date January	Application code 5344	Application method Direct to LSBU

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Module structure - MSc International Business Management

Term 1
Creativity enterprise and innovation	International Marketing			Organisational Behavior in an International Context
Project Launch Event
Term 2
International Strategic Management and Innovation		International Financial Management for Business			Research Methods
Option 1				Project Escalator Event
Term 3
Capstone Project

Module descriptions

• Consultancy Enterprise and Innovation
  Focusing on the rapidly changing world around us, it is imperative that students are able to think creatively, problem solve and create advantage for themselves (be entrepreneurial) and for the businesses they may work for (be intrapreneurial). The module encourages students to question what they see and experience around them with an aim to enhance their creativity and to discover new and improved ways of doing things.
• Curiosity, creativity and research
  Introducing students to the research process the modules looks at the mindset of the researcher and in particular to the idea of creativity in research and what it means to be a ‘creative researcher’.
• International marketing
  Understanding international marketing concepts and developing international marketing skills are essential for the success of organisations operating in increasingly global, challenging and changing markets. This module develops an understanding of the fundamentals of marketing and provides an overview of the macro-environment of international business and economic development. This lays the basis for an appreciation of strategic international marketing challenges including the use of big data, digital analytics, and global supply chain management. The course provides a strategic overview of international marketing issues, integrating theory and practice across a wide range of international business contexts.
• Organisational behaviour in an international context
  With its focus on organisational behaviour in an intercultural work context this modules provides students with an understating of global leadership, culture, and a practical focus on methods for managing virtual teams. In a globalised and digital economy everyone comes in contact and works with people from very different cultural backgrounds, whether it is employees, clients, or collaboration partners. Digital modes of working make it possible even for small businesses or individuals to work with partners and in markets across the globe.
• International strategic management and innovation
  This module aims to give students insight into the roots of competitive advantage, and how international organisations can develop strategies that establish and sustain it, acting ethically and responsibly. Students will appreciate the challenges of managing complexities in diverse, internationally operating businesses. They will develop an understanding of the key role of innovation, and the ways in which organisations can stimulate it and capture value from it.
• International financial management for business
  The module aims to provide the knowledge and skills needed to critically analyse information contained in companies’ reports and apply the principles of financial management to make value-maximising decisions in the pursuit of business goals. Course members will learn to critically appraise capital investment projects, and understand the elements of business, financial and exchange risk in the range of financial strategies available to a company. In addition, participants will learn about the various sources of raising capital for the business and appreciate the importance of broader issues in financial strategy and international financial management.
• Research Methods
  Focusing on the nature, approaches, methods, tools and techniques of research this module provides student with research skills within relevant disciplines from the business environment.
• Capstone business project
  An independent research project which draws upon the students’ skills and knowledge gained thus far enabling application of learning to a scenario resulting in added value to an organisation and creating real world impact.

One Optional 20 credit module

• Social Media Marketing and Digital PR
  This module provides a practical introduction to social media networks and tools (such as Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, the Internet Things, online PR and affiliate networks) and their application within marketing. The module examines the key characteristics of social media marketing strategies and identifies the theoretical underpinnings such as trust, loyalty, and customer engagement and also trends and usage patterns to provide a framework through which to understand and evaluate them. In addition, the module looks at the importance of researching and selecting the most appropriate digital channels to reach and engage with the target audience. It covers the tools and digital PR activities that can be used to extend the reach on social media, content management and online campaigns. It also examines the legal and ethical considerations that marketing in a digital world raises.
• Investment Management and Behavioral Finance
  This module is designed to provide students with an understanding of the theory and practice of investment management, particularly as it relates to the UK. The coverage will include portfolio creation and management, asset allocation and stock selection, and portfolio performance measurement, including the use of benchmarks and their relationship with performance targets and portfolio risk. Building upon the established, conventional principles of finance and then moves into psychological principles of behavioural finance focusing on contemporary issues. Errors and bias permeate the entire financial landscape affecting individual investors, institutional investors, analysts, portfolio managers, currency traders, financial executives amongst others. Students will understand how human behaviour impacts on the decision making of financial agents.
• Contemporary Issues in People Management
  This module offers participants the opportunity to explore four highly pertinent, contemporaneous, and important issues in the field of Human Resource Management. These issues are (a) Employee Engagement (b) Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (c) Reward Management and (d) Employee Voice. These issues have received much attention in recent years. Employee (or work) engagement is often seen as the ultimate goal of HR practitioners, as research indicates that engaged employees and workers offer significantly increased positive outcomes for organisations. Similarly, the topics of EDI, Reward and Employee Voice are increasingly acknowledged as areas of pivotal concern for organisations who seek to embrace and utilise talent, regardless of where and how that talent presents itself. The business case argument for organisations to adopt a strategic approach to these issues is considerable.
• Managing Project Value and Change by PRINCE2
  This module introduces the PRINCE2 project management methodology as a means to provide understanding of how project value can be created through effective change management and innovation. These vital elements in the advancement of projects are developed through defining various responsibilities and authority level so that routine changes can be dealt with efficiently and innovatively in order to create value.
• Global Operations and Logistics
  The global marketplace is typified by new and changing trade agreements, advancing ICT, product and service innovations, improved transport and shipping within a constantly changing regulatory environment. This module introduces students to the ways in which logistics management adds value to the flow of materials into and through manufacturing facilities, and to the distribution of products to consumers as firms endeavour to remain competitive. The module places emphasis on recent trends in the globalisation of the operations and logistics explores the scope of alternatives in; organising international production and distribution, alternative strategies for competing in the global marketplace, the advantages of locating manufacturing facilities abroad, and which products should be allocated to offshore facilities.
• Big Data Analytics
  This module aims to develop a critical understanding of the practical context of public relations both within the field of marketing and its broader context. It will provide students with an insight into the discipline as part of integrated marketing communications activity as well as consider the wider influence of practitioners on society and culture. This module will provide students with a critical understanding of public relations both as it is practiced within marketing and as a wider communications discipline.  It acknowledges that public relations have become part of the activities of a wide range of organisations to engage, promote and persuade.  The module foregrounds influence and reputation management in a range of real-world contexts.
• Governance and Leadership
  The module examines the area of governance and leadership within organisations in the broad context of the agency relationship and focuses on the respective roles and responsibilities of directors and officers to organisational stakeholders. The module explores internal review and feedback to implement and support effective governance and leadership. The module also assesses key aspects of responsible management and covers personal and professional ethics, ethical frameworks – and professional behaviour and conduct in a variety of contexts.
• Managing Virtual Work
  ‘Virtual Work’ relates to all aspects of digital media use at work and remote or hybrid models of working. Virtual work is omnipresent in business and management today across sectors and affects work behaviours on all levels. To be successful, employees, leaders and employers need to understand the impact, the challenges and the opportunities of virtual work, of different digital tools and platforms and different models of onsite, remote and hybrid working. This module introduces course participants to core components of virtual work, such as virtual/hybrid teams, virtual leadership, managing remote employees, clients or collaboration partners, and virtual organisations more generally, and identifies and discusses current issues, for example in supporting well-being, managing conflict, negotiation and diversity and inclusion in virtual work.
• Everyday Sustainability for Business
  Sustainability, CSR, ESG are all consistent topics in business management and this module introduces the student to addressing these issues in a practical, integrated and coherent manner. The contents of the module reflect this by looking at everyday sustainability from a project’s conception to the end of life. The module contents are delivered with references to current events as they evolve and invites the students to draw their own conclusions to how current events impact on everyday sustainability and how to address problems arising from changing business demands.
• Brand Management
  This module provides a strategic and tactical approach to learning and applying the key theories, frameworks and models of current brand marketing to solve management problems. This module will prepare the student for a career in brand management by using a practical approach for the application of complex theoretical ideas. The module examines a broad range of knowledge taken from product management, service management and brand strategy.
• Organisational Risk Management and Internal Controls
  This module explores the role of risk management processes within organisations and how effective internal review, control and feedback can be implemented to support effective governance. This module will consider the compliance issues related to decision-making and decision- support functions of risk management and how an effective strategy can be implemented to manage risk using internal control processes. The module also examines the whole area of identifying, assessing, and controlling risk as a key aspect of responsible management.