Postgraduate Prospectus
Postgraduate Prospectus
Postgraduate Prospectus
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MSc Global Project and Innovation<br />
Management•<br />
This course ensures you understand the<br />
dynamics, underpinning theories and<br />
concepts relating to global project and<br />
innovation management. You develop<br />
critical insights into how global, innovative<br />
projects become part of the strategic<br />
decision-making process of businesses<br />
and how they complement the management<br />
of related areas of information, new<br />
enterprise creation, business research<br />
and the workings of the international<br />
business environment.<br />
MSc International Business and<br />
Entrepreneurship•‡<br />
MSc International Business and<br />
Entrepreneurship is concerned with<br />
critical aspects of business formation and<br />
development across international borders.<br />
We cover a highly topical area of business<br />
study through a critical examination of<br />
different types of international business<br />
activity, underpinning theories, and<br />
innovative approaches to new business<br />
creation in different cultural and<br />
economic contexts.<br />
The international scope and character<br />
of our course is evidenced in our overall<br />
objectives, the use of international case<br />
studies and data sets, and the availability<br />
of staff, policy-makers and practitioners<br />
from an international community of<br />
businesses, academic institutions and<br />
other organisations.<br />
MSc International Marketing and<br />
Entrepreneurship•‡<br />
This course is concerned with marketing,<br />
public relations and customer-centred<br />
business activity as they apply to different<br />
types of organisations in varying stages of<br />
formation or growth in different international<br />
and cultural environments. It responds to<br />
a growing recognition of the development<br />
of strategic, international marketing<br />
knowledge, capabilities, skills and<br />
techniques among existing professionals<br />
of private, public and not-for-profit<br />
organisations.<br />
You cover marketing issues related<br />
to new ventures and entrepreneurial<br />
public and private sector organisations<br />
managing change processes, including<br />
the investigation of key marketing principles<br />
like advertising, PR, e-marketing, ethical<br />
issues, governance, and their application.<br />
MSc Organisation Studies and<br />
International Human Resource<br />
Management•‡<br />
Our course allows you to acquire a thorough<br />
understanding of the nature and role of<br />
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