THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL GLOBAL STRATEGY

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Focuses on review and integration of the several streams of literature dealing with strategy for, and management of, the product-diversified and/or internationally-diversified firm. Also, in order to complement the emphasis of other doctoral offerings on strategy formulation topics, this seminar places a special emphasis on strategy process, organizational structure and administrative mechanisms. In particular, it explores the foundations as well as current research on corporate governance, broadly define. This includes (I) the set of mechanisms available to align the interest of top managers to those of shareowners, as well as (II) the mechanisms available to motivate and control middle managers so that their decisions and behaviors are aligned with intended corporate and/or international strategy and goals.