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  • International Business: a European Perspective (2019)

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    Professors

    Judith Clifton

    Daniel Díaz Fuentes

    José Manuel Alonso

    Department of Economy

    This course combines one weekly lecture and seminar to ground students in the theories and practices of international Business from a European perspective.

    • It includes a study visit to a EU Multinational Corporation in the region, giving students get face-to-face contact with industry representatives.
    • We also invite Guest Speakers to talk about the challenges of international business in different EU and non-EU contexts.
    • Rather than following a US perspective, the course puts Europe at its centre, as a source and host of International Business (trade or investment).
    • Parts 1 to 3 provide the fundamental theoretical concepts and empirical knowledge that students need to acquire to successfully analyse International Business.
    • Part 4 applies this knowledge through an exploration of EU businesses in the world.
    • The seminars apply the concepts learnt in the theory using different methodologies, including critical reading, class-based discussion of texts and data and direct contact with the business community through a study trip.

    The course has been redesigned as part of the Jean Monnet Chair awarded to the UC: https://www.proyectojeanmonneteu.unican.es/.


    Keywords

    International Business, Europe, European Union, Trade, Foreign Direct Investment, Services, Goods, Regulation.

  • Readings

     

     

     

        Course Textbook   

      

    •  International Business: competing in the global market place, Charles Hill, McGraw-Hill. 2014.

      

          

        Texts for class discussion    

     

    • Clifton, J., Díaz-Fuentes, D., & Revuelta, J. (2010). The political economy of telecoms and electricity internationalization in the single market. Journal of European Public Policy, 17(7), 988-1006, DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2010.499229

    • Clifton, J., Fuentes, D. D., & Warner, M. (2016). The loss of public values when public shareholders go abroad. Utilities Policy, 40, 134-143. doi.org/10.1016/j.jup.2015.11.003.

    • Clifton, J., & Díaz-Fuentes, D. (2011). The European Union, southern multinationals and the question of the ‘strategic industries’. In The Emergence of Southern Multinationals (pp. 226-241). Palgrave Macmillan, London.

    • Clifton, J., & Díaz-Fuentes, D. (2010). Is the European Union ready for foreign direct investment from emerging markets?. In Foreign Direct Investments from Emerging Markets (pp. 335-358). Palgrave Macmillan, New York.

    • Alonso, J. M., Clifton, J., Díaz-Fuentes, D., Fernández-Gutiérrez, M., & Revuelta, J. (2013). The race for international markets: were privatized telecommunications incumbents more successful than their public counterparts?. International Review of Applied Economics, 27(2), 215-236.

     

     

        Other relevant texts   



    •  International Economics: Theory and Policy. Pearson Addison Wesley; 2014. Paul Krugman y M. Obstfeld (10th Edition)

    •  Clifton, J., Comín, F., & Diaz Fuentes, D. (2006). Privatizing public enterprises in the European Union 1960–2002: ideological, pragmatic, inevitable?. Journal of European Public Policy, 13(5), 736-756.

    •  Clifton, J., Comín, F., Díaz-Fuentes, D.,. (2007). Transforming public enterprise in Europe and North America. Palgrave.