29.03.2025
International Business & Trade
Dear all,
I trust that you are always doing well & & really hungry for overcoming many challenges in your career development journey.
Today I just wanted to officially inform you about your preparation for WEEK 7. We will do a little bit differently from usual.
The following students are assigned to explain (1) the overall logic, (2) theoretical arguments & perspectives, & (3) managerial relevance of the respective papers below. Moreover, I strongly encourage these students to come up with one or two unique & meaningful questions for their peers to discuss in class in WEEK 7. In other words, I expect the assigned students to lead the class discussion & prepare your own answers to the questions posed (Please send the questions to me one day before the lesson if you are assigned to play this specific role). I would greatly appreciate if you could bring some detailed information (apart from the assigned papers) that actually stimulate the students’ thought process in practice. If really necessary, please feel free to use a one-page ppt.
07.04.2025 (Monday)
“Lundbeck Korea: Managing an International Growth Engine” written by Roberts, W. in Bartlett, C. A., & Beamish, P. W. (2018). Transnational Management: Text & Cases in Cross-Border Management, Cambridge University Press.
→ALBERTO RAMPINELLI
→ALESSIA CICCARELLO
Ambos, T. C., & Birkinshaw, J. (2010). “Headquarters’ Attention & its Effect on Subsidiary Performance”, Management International Review, 50(4), 449-469.
→DANIEL KELLICI
→ELEONORA TANTARDINI
O’Brien, D., Sharkey Scott, P., Andersson, U., Ambos, T., & Fu, N. (2019). “The Microfoundations of Subsidiary Initiatives: How Subsidiary Manager Activities Unlock Entrepreneurship”, Global Strategy Journal, 9(1), 66-91.
→ELISA SCACCABAROZZI
→ENRICO GHISLETTI
08.04.2025 (Tuesday)
Meyer, K. (2019). “McDonald’s Reinvents Itself in India”.
→EVA POZZATO
→FEDERICA CAPELLI
Yang, X., Jiang, Y., Kang, R. & Ke, Y. (2009). “A Comparative Analysis of the Internationalization of Chinese & Japanese Firms”, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 26: 141-162.
→LAURA FINASSI
→LUCA FRANZOLINI
“Xiaomi Challenges Global Smartphone Leaders” (pp. 500-504 in P&M).
→MUHAMMAD AWAIS
→PABLO JÜRGEN SANTIAGO SANCHEZ
“Beko Washes Clothes Across Europe” (pp. 558-560 in P&M).
→ZIAD BENRHAZAL
→RIM ABDOU
09.04.2025 (Wednesday)
“Global Wine War 2015: New World Versus Old” in Bartlett, C. A., & Beamish, P. W. (2018). Transnational Management: Text & Cases in Cross-Border Management, Cambridge University Press.
→SUSANNA VILLA
→VALENTINA GHIRGA
“Imax: Expansion in BRIC Economies” in Bartlett, C. A., & Beamish, P. W. (2018). Transnational Management: Text & Cases in Cross-Border Management, Cambridge University Press.
→MICHELA CONSOLATI
→LISA GIAVARINI
If you are not assigned at all, it does not mean that you have an easy life at all. I will also randomly ask many of you various questions in class. Please stay well-prepared as always.
Thank you for your great
understanding & kind cooperation.
I wish you all a lovely start of the weekend.
Best wishes,
Norifumi Kawai