Msc development and international business geography|business and management

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Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    London

Overview
In recent years interest in the relationship between international business and (especially international) development has increased. This new degree offers a framework for exploring the changing relationship between states and markets, politics of development, foreign direct investment, international institutions of global political-economic governance, global working lives, economic restructuring, migrant labour, multinational companies, work, geo-politics, industrialization and development.
This programme:
will help you to develop advanced and critical understandings of the development of international business from various intellectual perspectives. From neo-liberal and mainstream business studies approaches, through to more critical approaches which engage with questions of power and resistance
will give you an advanced theoretical grounding in the core aspects, and history and politics of, business and its growing internationalisation
will equip you with the skills to conduct rigorous empirical analysis and enquiry
offers distinctive opportunities to conduct independent field-based research in diverse locations
will prepare you for a broad range of careers but will specifically deliver the research skills and substantive knowledge required by NGOs, development organisations and national government departments.
Become part of QMUL Geography
Professional and friendly environment: We are recognised as an international centre for excellence in teaching and research. Our work is at the forefront of geography, shaping debates and providing significant new insight and understanding. We are also known for our friendly and welcoming ethos and are home to many of contemporary human geography's best known scholars. Joining the School of Geography places you alongside academics that are actively developing and challenging contemporary thinking in their field. ameworks sessions with top-level academic researchers.
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London
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67-69 Lincoln'S Inn Fields, WC2A 3JB

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Subjects

  • Politics
  • Business and Management
  • Governance
  • International
  • Global
  • International Business
  • Human Geography

Course programme

Structure

The programme is made up of 180 credits. For full details on our modules please go to the online module directory.

Core module:
  • Dissertation of 15,000 words (60 credits)
Compulsory modules:
  • Re-theorising Development Futures (30 credits)
  • Research Design and Methods (15 credits)
  • World Economy and Development (15 credits)
Option modules (15 credits each):
  • Economics of Development
  • Global Governance and International Organisations
  • Global Supply Chain Management
  • Global Working Lives
  • International Business Strategy
  • Migration and Mobilities
  • Multinationals and Global Business
  • New Product Development & Business Ecosystems
  • Organisational Behaviour
  • Social and Political Marketing
  • Strategic Management
  • Graduate Professional and Academic Skills (non-credit bearing)
Contact
  • For enquiries, contact the Postgraduate Studies Manager on +44 (0)20 7882 8165 or email
  • The programme is led by Dr William Monteith, Lecturer in Human Geography

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Msc development and international business geography|business and management

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