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MA
International Management

Location
Southwark

Duration
1 year plus dissertation (full-time)

Start date
September

Number of places
48

How to apply
Direct to LSBU

LSBU code
3316

Course contact
Elizabeth Shaw
maintmang.enq@lsbu.ac.uk – 020 7815 7895

Course units

Year 1

Course Introduction – provided as part of course induction session

Semester 1

Core

– Managing in the International Business Environment

– International Marketing

– International Financial Reporting and Governance

– International Personnel and Development

– Research Methods

– Language Unit (optional)

Semester 2

Core

– Fundamentals of International Management

– Research Methods

2 Options

– Knowledge Management

– European Management and Business Strategy

– International Employment Relations


– Corporate Finance

– E-commerce in the Contemporary World

– Integrated Marketing Communications in

International Business
– Culture and Communications

Other options may also be available
– Residential weekend in Semester 2

Year 2
– Dissertation

Course description

The Masters in International Management is conceived as a first step in your management development. It will provide you with analytical and conceptual tools that combine academic arguments with a practical and action learning approach to contemporary international management. The programme will enable you to develop a comprehensive knowledge of the key aspects of international management essential for a career in international business. The programme is designed to give you a critical appreciation of the multidisciplinary nature of contemporary management in a range of international contexts. The MA is, therefore, aimed at students who wish to study a broad range of management functions.

The course will make you familiar with:

– Many of the varied and complex problems that arise in management in an international context

– The kinds of solutions that have been developed

– The implementation and evaluation issues which arise.

The programme is based on an international perspective to ensure relevance in the contemporary management environment. In this context, non-UK graduates play a very important role for enriching the overall international learning experience.

Thus the course seeks to provide you with a thorough understanding of the internationalisation of management activities and functions and to develop skills necessary to operate successfully as managers in a modern global business world.

Career opportunities

Employment prospects for graduates of the MA in International Management are excellent, with demand outstripping supply in the global business environment for young Masters graduates who wish to start a career in management. Successful students can, in addition to general management, enter a variety of roles in marketing, finance and HRM.

In this respect the personal development emphasis on the course reflects the skills in demand for flexible roles in managing across a variety of organisational cultures and functions inside multinational companies. This is the emphasis in the stage two Residential.