Business Administration

Throughout the course, students learn to:

• Be familiar with the character and contents of international management
• Gain an overview of the importance, process and decision areas of international management
• Come to grips with the increased complexity of internationally focused management and, using this as a basis, deal with it in a sufficiently methodological manner
• Operate competently on the international scene by using a knowledge of environmental factors and complex strategic options

Throughout the course, students learn to:

• Understand theoretical fundamentals of organisational theory and methodology
• Categorise organizational structures and classify them for economic purpose
• Explain relevant organizational structures and abstract in the context of market requirements
• Understand the principal-agent theory and can present their respective implications for conflicts in organisations

Throughout the course, students learn to:

• Understand key legal issues and developments at European level
• Recognize and solve relevant legal problems even under changed legal conditions
• Get an understanding of the legal sources of European law and the Institutions of the European Union

Prof. Dr Daiva Labanaukaité

Prof. Dr Erika Zuperkiene

After successful completion of this course, students should be able to:
- understand the role and the dynamic of the most important economic areas
- know the economic fundamentals regarding figures and numbers
- analyse the business impact for strategy by the use of specific business sectors
- understand the threats of trade conflicts in accordance with deglobalisation
- apply the principles of corporate strategy development
- design a first strategic outline in accordance with the relevant components

Prof. Dr Alexander Kumpf

Dr Thomas Peisl

Prof. Dr Bernd Mühlfriedel

After successful completion of this course, students should be able to:

knowledge, comprehension & application
- demonstrate a deep understanding about the importance of the international dimension for corporate financial management
- apply their knowledge of cultural aspects to international business settings analysis, synthesis & evaluation:
- construct financial plans as the basis for investment appraisal
- solve investment problem sets in an international company set-up by using suitable investment appraisal techniques
- solve financing problems of international companies by analysing and evaluating appropriate sets of financing sources
- apply their understanding of risk factors of a company in an international environment to specific problem situations and know how to protect oneself against them by applying appropriate hedging strategies and techniques
- appraise the value of an international company by using several valuation techniques
- relate underlying trends in digitalization and globalization to international financial management problem sets
- evaluate investment and financing case study problems involving quantitative and qualitative task