The overall aim of the course is to provide students with a conceptual, theoretical knowledge of strategic management concepts and theory. The main focuses of the course are strategic management and internationalization processes in multinational corporations. The course first introduces the 　general concept of strategy and why companies need to apply them. Implementation of strategy and its　tools will be discussed. The course will mainly discuss business and corporate strategies.

The　questions discussed will be:
How can corporations become and stay competitive?
What decisions need to be made to do so?

The course aims to:
・review existing literature and theory in the field of strategic management and international management theory.
・help participants to understand the theoretical foundation of strategic management, its processes, tools and implementation in within corporations.
・help participants to recognize and analyze strategic processes in corporations and to develop strategic solutions on the business unit level, corporate level, and global level. ・discuss the relevance of strategy in multinational corporations and during internationalization processes.
・provide a basic foundation to enable the student to understand, analyze and make appropriate strategic choices in structured case study situations.