Business and Management BSc

This module introduces you to the cognitive and behavioural aspects of entrepreneurship, focusing on developing an entrepreneurial mindset. Through a combination of theoretical frameworks and practical applications, you will explore the key characteristics, thought processes, and behaviours that drive entrepreneurial success. Topics covered include:

• ideation

• creative problem-solving

• resilience 

• adaptability

• decision-making in entrepreneurial contexts

You will experience the entrepreneurial process hands-on, from idea generation to business launch and growth. You will engage in self-reflection activities, case studies, and experiential learning exercises to cultivate your entrepreneurial thinking, with emphasis on the application of entrepreneurial mindset principles not only in new venture creation but also in corporate contexts.

Explore the sustainability issues faced by organisations and other stakeholders. This module also simulates business response(s) to these environmental and societal grand challenges therein.  Through exposure to real-world sustainable challenges, you will cover concepts of:

• responsibility

• economic growth and degrowth

• social justice 

• biodiversity

• the environment

Through simulation and group-working, you will be required to prioritise responses to these issues while considering economic, social, environmental and reputational value. 

The module considers several of the transformations in contemporary organisations as a result of the use of recently developed, developing, or emerging technologies and information systems. Topics include: 

• different ways to understand the relationship between technology and the design and management of organisations 

• the implications of technology for different business management areas and different sectors of the economy (including how these affect society and citizens) 

• Potential future technologies and issues 

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In today’s dynamic business environment, organisations, large or small, must develop the capability to anticipate and respond to external changes. These changes may represent opportunities or threats for companies. This module examines corporate entrepreneurship (CE) and explores how firms can balance innovation with sustainability to achieve long-term success.

You will gain a deep understanding of corporate entrepreneurship (CE) and how larger organisations can be designed to foster entrepreneurial, innovative, flexible and sustainable approaches. You will: 

• develop a comprehensive understanding of CE, its forms, and how it distinguishes from independent entrepreneurship

• analyse the conditions, organisational processes, and barriers that influence the successful implementation of CE in larger firms

• critically evaluate the relationship between corporate entrepreneurship, innovation management, and long-term organisational outcomes

This module introduces you to the cognitive and behavioural aspects of entrepreneurship, focusing on developing an entrepreneurial mindset. Through a combination of theoretical frameworks and practical applications, you will explore the key characteristics, thought processes, and behaviours that drive entrepreneurial success. Topics covered include:

• ideation

• creative problem-solving

• resilience 

• adaptability

• decision-making in entrepreneurial contexts

You will experience the entrepreneurial process hands-on, from idea generation to business launch and growth. You will engage in self-reflection activities, case studies, and experiential learning exercises to cultivate your entrepreneurial thinking, with emphasis on the application of entrepreneurial mindset principles not only in new venture creation but also in corporate contexts.

The aim of the module is to introduce you to the economic view of firms, highlighting the implications for firms' decisions in closed and open economies.

The module intends to cover topics such as agency theory, transaction cost economics, integration, and organisational and institutional aspects of international business and their impacts.

This module covers:

• service work definition and context
• different theoretical perspectives on the nature of service work and service management
• health care
• emotional labour
• distinctive HRM practices in service work

This module covers areas including theories of Human Resource Management, HR planning and Strategic HRM, recruitment and selection, performance appraisal, work-life balance and ethics.

Topic covered include:

• environment
• theory of multinational enterprises
• entry strategies
• international leadership
• operating in international markets

Develop your understanding of entrepreneurship in an international context. Through a critical and broad-ranging social science approach, you will gain analyse international entrepreneurship within the context of a wide range of management, organisation studies and social science debates. 

You will explore both the conceptual aspects of international entrepreneurship as well as practical elements in order to equip you with a valid grounding of both theory and practice. Topics covered include:

• knowledge and understanding of the development, access and operation of global markets for resources, goods and services among students

• barriers and enablers to entrepreneurship for diverse and underrepresented groups across different countries

• policies and support mechanisms that promote inclusive entrepreneurship internationally

• tools and frameworks to develop inclusive entrepreneurial initiatives across borders

The module incorporates an inclusive perspective, using case studies and real-world examples of atypical international entrepreneurship activity by under-represented entrepreneurs. When exploring opportunities and barriers to international entrepreneurship, we also explore how certain social groups and individuals in developing country contexts may experience intersecting disadvantages that compound the challenges faced.

This module develops an understanding of when and how different approaches, models and methods are used in management decision-making. Areas covered include: optimisation models and methods, project management methods, queuing systems and simulation, sequencing and scheduling. 

The module examines the particular management and marketing issues affecting the tourism sector, using both relevant theoretical frameworks and applied cases from a range of different countries. The module covers topics such as:

• the importance of tourism to the global economy
• services marketing and management principles and the specific characteristics of tourism in the service economy
• tourist consumer behaviour, including latest trends in travel patterns
• strategic marketing tools for tourism
• managing service quality and delivery in tourism
• destination management and marketing, imagery and branding
• tourism product development, marketing communications and pricing
• ICTs, channel strategies and e-tourism marketing
• mobile and social media marketing in tourism
• crisis management and scenario planning

This module will include topics that will help students to appreciate the growing importance of services, and understand the operations function in service industries. This module aims to illustrate the growing importance of services in today's economy and provide an appreciation of the issues involved in managing the operations function of service organisations.  

In this module you will explore the role of data, information systems and metrics in marketing practice. The module covers the types of marketing data, the sources of marketing data, and the uses of marketing data. It explores contextual issues including the role of information systems and infrastructures, organisational decision making, and ethics and regulation of marketing data. 

This module is designed to focus on the strategic and operational aspects of marketing management. It will examine:

• understanding the marketing concept
• the role of marketing within business and its contribution to business performance and enhancing value
• developing marketing strategy
• segmentation, targeting and positioning
• managing the marketing mix
• planning and implementation

This module examines the strategic importance of manufacturing and service operations, and the key links between operations and other functional strategies.

The module explores the importance of a properly formulated and explicit operations strategy to ensure the development of a successful business.

The module discusses the interdependence of policies for capacity, technology, supply networks, development and organisation.

Logistics and supply chain management (LSCM) principles lie at the heart of modern-day business operations. In this module, you will be introduced to the fundamentals of LSCM.

You’ll gain knowledge and understanding of: 

• the dynamic and changing nature of business and the consideration of the future of organisations within the global business environment

• the development, access and operation of markets for resources, goods and services 

• the role of LSCM strategies in enhancing a business' competitive advantage

• the dynamics of relationships among business partners in delivering exceptional customer satisfaction 

• the management of customer expectations and relationships

• the management of outsourcing 

• the management of digital technologies and their impact upon organisations

• the intricacies of international supply chain networks and transportation 

• the application of lean and digital supply chain in the VUCA environment (volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity)

• the need for individuals and organisations to manage responsibly and sustainably, in relation to social, cultural, economic and environmental issues 

You will develop your commercial acumen, critical thinking and ability to analyse facts and circumstances, determine the cause of a problem and select appropriate solutions. You’ll also improve your ability to analyse and evaluate a range of business data, sources of information and appropriate methodologies. 

Much economic and business behaviour deviates from the traditional views of rationality - for example, utility and profit maximisation. This module provides an overview of alternative views of decision making from behavioural economics and the economic psychology of individual choice.

The focus is both on new methods of economic enquiry and the insights they have generated into economic and business decision making. These new approaches include: experimental and cognitive economics; neuroeconomics; economics of emotions and happiness; behavioural finance; cultural economics; social preferences and evolutionary psychology.

This module will foster your understanding of the process by which business organisations make effective use of labour, and the policies they employ to this effect. Topics covered include:

• employees' incentives in organisations
• the hiring process
• training and labour turnover
• employee pay and performance
• trade unions
• employment relations

This module explores the nature of work and society. It will look at the development of our understanding of work and society. The development of the industrial and the post-industrial society will be explored and its impact on the nature of work, organisation and management.

There will be a historical and critical review of the schools of thought and key writers. Examples of research into individual and group experiences of work, organisation and management will be discussed.