Multinational enterprises

Course: International economic relations (master)

Structural unit: Educational and scientific institute of international relations

Title
Multinational enterprises
Code
ОК3
Module type
Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
Second
Year of study when the component is delivered
2021/2022
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
1 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
3
Learning outcomes
To know the conceptual framework, methodology and theories of foreign direct investment. To know the sources of theories of foreign direct investment and multinational enterprises. To know the directions, stages of development of FDI theory and MNE, classification and typology of concepts. To know theories of market power, monopolistic advantages. To know the features of macroeconomic theories of direct investment. To know the formation of the economic school of internalization and the theory of transaction costs. To know the nature of product life cycle theory and competitive advantage. To know the peculiarities of the development of the theory of oligopolistic reaction. To know the peculiarities of the development of Uppsala's FDI model. To know the nature of the eclectic theory of foreign direct investment. Know the characteristics and categories of resource theory of foreign direct investment.
Form of study
Full-time form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
1) To know the theoretical aspects and foundations of international economic relations. 2) To be able to analyse the causes and consequences of trends in foreign direct investment and international production. 3) To have basic skills of search and analysis of statistical materials on the activities of multinational enterprises, the impact of their operations on countries. 4) To know English or another foreign language to get acquainted with the theoretical and statistical sources of the dynamics of international production and export of MNE capital.
Course content
1. The nature and concept of MNE and foreign direct investment 2. Directions of international theoretical analysis of the production of multinational firms 3. Features of the current stage of transnationalization of the world economy 4. The strategy of transnationalization of a firm 5. Organizational and managerial structure of multinational corporations 6. The financial system of the MNE 7. Relationships of multinational corporations and host countries 8. Regulatory challenges for multinational corporations. Presentation of individual independent work Modular test work
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
1. Рогач. О. Багатонаціональне підприємство: сучасний профіль. / Багатонаціональні підприємства та глобальна економіка. Монографія., за ред. О.І.Рогача, К., «Видавництво «Центр навчальної літератури», 2020. – c.39-64. 2. Рогач О.І. Багатонаціональні підприємства: Підручник . / О.І. Рогач. – К.: ВПЦ «Київський університет», 2008. – 400 с. 3. Рогач О. Багатонаціональні підприємства: Підручник / О.І. Рогач. – К.: ВПЦ Київський Університет, К., 2017 . – 450 с. 4. Рогач О.І. Багатонаціональні підприємства та експорт нових індустріальних країн Азії : Монографія / О.І. Рогач, В.В. Косьміна . – К.: Центр учбової літератури, 2016. – 256 с. 5. Рогач О. Глобальні ланцюжки створення вартості багатонаціональних підприємств / Олександр Рогач. –Міжнародні відносини Серія " Економічні науки", 2018.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture, seminar, individual work, modular work control.
Assessment methods and criteria
1. Oral answers, comments, blitz polls, discussion, tasks. (max. – 30 points.) 2. Execution of individual independent work (presentation - case). (max. – 10 points.) 3. Modular control work (test). (max. – 20 points.) Final assessment in the form of an exam: (max. – 40 points.).
Language of instruction
Ukrainian

Lecturers

This discipline is taught by the following teachers

Chair of international finance
Educational and scientific institute of international relations

Departments

The following departments are involved in teaching the above discipline

Chair of international finance
Educational and scientific institute of international relations