micro strategic management- rutgers business school（微观战略管理——罗格斯商学院）.doc

Cross-border Management: Institutions, Firms, and Industry Value Chains Department of Management & Global Business Rutgers Business School - Newark & New Brunswick Fall 2010 This version dated: October 26, 2010 Time: Wednesdays, 9:30-12:30 Place: 1 WP, Room 358 Course ID: 26.533.501 Professor: Michelle Gittelman Office: 1WP, Room 1096 Office hours: Wed. 1:30-2:30 pm or by appt. Email: michelle.gittelman@ Telephone: Not advised; use email. COURSE OVERVIEW & OBJECTIVES This course explores challenges facing modern corporations in organizing activities that span multiple stages of the value chain. The course is broadly organized into two parts. In the first part, students are introduced to the theory of the firm, with a special emphasis on buyer-supplier relations and vertical integration. ?We consider these issues through different theoretical lenses, and students read foundational literature in transactions cost and knowledge-based paradigms. We examine firm boundaries both in product markets as well as in markets for knowledge and technology, and study how and when new and intermediate forms such as networks and relational contracting emerge as stable organizing principles. Where possible, research that examines these issues from an international perspective is included. The second part of the course deals explicitly with firm boundaries and industry organization in a comparative perspective. We examine the role of institutions in generating variety across national contexts in the organizing principles of firms, industries and buyer-supplier relationships, with an emphasis on the organization of Japanese firms and firms in emerging markets. Additional topics that will be covered as time permits build upon these two streams of research, and include: the roles of physical space and social networks in inter-firm knowledge flows; globalization and industry value chains; markets for