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[ 990ADMAGGOK13 ] KS Global Governance

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Workload	Education level	Study areas	Responsible person	Hours per week	Coordinating university
3 ECTS	M2 - Master's programme 2. year	Business Administration	Robert Breitenecker	1 hpw	Johannes Kepler University Linz

Detailed information
Original study plan	Master's programme Joint Master's Program Global Business - Russia/Italy 2020W
Objectives	The course aims to prepare the students for management decisions in the face of global challenges. In order to achieve that, the students will broaden their perspective and become aware of the relations and impacts of institutional differences between countries and continents. These insights will enrich the students` understanding of how various influences determine organizational realities, in which they operate in. It provides students with an intellectual toolkit to better grasp important conditions for organizational success, struggle or failure.
Subject	Topic 1 Institutional complementarities How do institutional settings orchestrate with each other? The principles of complementary institutional settings and their variances. Problems of incommensurability. Topic 2 Ownership Structure How does ownership dispersion influence organizational strategy and organizational behavior? What conditions favor principal-agent or rather stewardship situations? Topic 3 Educational Systems In what way does the educational system correlate with organizational strategy? Topic 4 Industrial Relations What forms of Industrial Relations are there? How do they influence organizational strategy? Topic 5 Inter-Firm Relations What forms of Inter-Firm Relations are there? How do they influence organizational strategy? Topic 6 Radical and Incremental Innovation In what way does institutional complementarity influence the potential for innovation? How can Multi-National-Corporations thrive on the institutional differences to strengthen their potential for innovation? Topic 7 Business Systems: Austria What does the Austrian institutional environment look like concerning ... Industrial Relations? Inter-Firm Relations? Education System? Ownership Structure? What are the consequences of these settings? Topic 8 Business Systems: Italy What does the Italian institutional environment look like concerning ... Industrial Relations? Inter-Firm Relations? Education System? Ownership Structure? What are the consequences of these settings? Topic 9 Business Systems: Russia What does the Russian institutional environment look like concerning ... Industrial Relations? Inter-Firm Relations? Education System? Ownership Structure? What are the consequences of these settings? Topic 10 The Keiretsu Model What is the Japanese specialty compared to other varieties of capitalism? Topic 11 Gender Disparity and the Economy What is the relation between institutional settings and gender equality?
Criteria for evaluation
Language	English
Study material	Literature Hall, P. Soskice, D. (2001) Varieties of Capitalism Oxford: Oxford University Press. Chapter 1. Hancke, B. (2009) Debating Varieties of Capitalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Chapter 1. Whitley, R. (2007) Business Systems and Organizational Capabilities. The Institutional Structuring of Competitive Competences. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Changing subject?	No
Further information	The course is especially designed for students of the Troika program.

On-site course
Maximum number of participants	40
Assignment procedure	Assignment according to priority