325-409 Advanced Strategic Management

Entry into honours program.

This subject examines advanced themes and issues in the theory and practice of strategic management. Drawing on rich and varied theoretical traditions, contemporary research and case study analysis, students will progress through a variety of process, content and contextual considerations to secure an advanced perspective of the strategic management discipline. Broad topics include strategic change, strategy formation and implementation; business, corporate and network level strategies; and examination of industry, business, corporate and network level strategies; and examination of industry, organizational and international contexts. Within these broader topics such issues as innovation, dynamic capability theory and knowledge management will be investigated. Embedded in the critical examination of competitive advantage as derived from sources internal and external to the firm, this subject is designed to provide students with an appreciation of strategic management as a value-added approach to conceptualising the firm and its environment in pursuit of optimum rewards.

• High level of development: oral communication; written communication; collaborative learning; problem solving; application of theory to practice; interpretation and analysis; critical thinking; evaluation of data and other information; receptiveness to alternative ideas.

• Moderate level of development: team work; statistical reasoning; synthesis of data and other information; accessing data and other information from a range of sources.

A 3-hour examination (60%) and assignment(s) totalling not more than 4000 words (40%).