Course detail
International Business
FP-OmoPAcad. year: 2018/2019
The subject provides knowledge related to key areas of international trade. It presents the characteristics of the international environment and the importance of international trade, defines theoretical approaches and trends, categories, main subjects. She is acquainted with the international economic organization and the impact of integration on international trade and competitiveness.
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Course curriculum
2. Importance of International Trade and the Role of the GATT and the WTO in the liberalization of international trade.
3. Development Trends in International Trade in the 20th and 21st Centuries: territorial structure and commodity structure of international trade, high dynamics of trade in goods and services.
4. The Major Centers of the World Economy: quantitative comparisons - USA, Japan, China, EMU and others - integration processes from aspects of international trade.
5. Transformation Process in the Central and Eastern European Countries: the nature and content of the transformation process, the transformation process strategy, cooperation and evaluation of transformation from the time point of view.
6. International Competitiveness: business environment and its components, connections and links, selected indicators of the quality of the business environment.
7. The function of international trade in relation to the national economy, the forms of involvement of business entities in international trade.
8. International Trade of Developed Countries.
9. International Trade of Developing Countries.
10. International Trade of the Czech Republic.
11. Globalization and Internationalization. Strategies and forms of enterprise entry into international markets. Direct and indirect forms of entry. Capital and non-capital inputs.
12. Management of International Business Operations: basics issues, delivery and payment terms, financing, logistics and risk.
13. International Trade Control, Reporting, Corporate Governance, CG Regulating and Comparison, Mechanisms and Processes, Types of Investors, CG, Strategies and Stakeholders.
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Basic literature
CZINKOTA, M., R., RONKAINEN, I., A., MOFFERT, M., H. International Business . 7. vyd. South-Western: THOMSON, 2005. 782 s. ISBN 0-324-20610-0.
GRIFFIN, R. W. a M. W. PUSTAY. International business. 6th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2010. ISBN 9780137153732. (CS)
KALÍNSKÁ, E. Mezinárodní obchod v 21. století. Praha: Grada, 2010. Expert (Grada). ISBN 978-80-247-3396-8 (CS)
KUNEŠOVÁ, H. Světová ekonomika: nové jevy a perspektivy. 2., dopl. a přeprac. vyd. V Praze: C.H. Beck, 2006. Beckovy ekonomické učebnice. ISBN 80-717-9455-4. (CS)
MACHKOVÁ, H., ČERNOHLÁVKOVÁ, E., SATO, A. a kol. Mezinárodní obchodní operace. 3 vyd. Praha: Grada Publisching, 2003. 230 s. ISBN 80-247-0686-5.
NURDIN, G. International business control, reporting and corporate governance. Oxford: CIMA, 2009. ISBN 978-075-0683-838 (CS)
RUGMAN, A. M. a S. COLLINSON. International business. 6. ed. Harlow [u.a.]: FT/Prentice Hall, 2012. ISBN 0273760971. (CS)
ŠTĚRBOVÁ, L. Mezinárodní obchod ve světové krizi 21. století. Praha: Grada, 2013. Expert (Grada). ISBN 978-80-247-4694-4. (CS)
WRIGHT, M., D. SIEGEL, K. KEASEY and I. FILATOTCHEV. The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Governance. UK: Oxford University Press. 2013. ISBN 978-0-19-964200-7745. (CS)
Recommended reading
CHARLES W.L.H. Global business today. 7th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2011. ISBN 978-007-8137-211 (CS)
MORRISON, J. The global business environment: meeting the challenges. 3rd ed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. ISBN 978-023-0210-257. (CS)
POLLARD, D. a I. SIMBEROVA. The internationalization of SMEs in the Czech Republic: Strategic and knowledge development issues. Internationalization of firms from economies in transition: the effects of a politico-economic paradigm shift. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2014, s. 90-108. New horizons in international business. ISBN 978-1-78347-469-1.
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme MGR-MEO Master's 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
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2. Importance of International Trade and the Role of the GATT and the WTO in the liberalization of international trade.
3. Development Trends in International Trade in the 20th and 21st Centuries: territorial structure and commodity structure of international trade, high dynamics of trade in goods and services.
4. The Major Centers of the World Economy: quantitative comparisons - USA, Japan, China, EMU and others - integration processes from aspects of international trade.
5. Transformation Process in the Central and Eastern European Countries: the nature and content of the transformation process, the transformation process strategy, cooperation and evaluation of transformation from the time point of view.
6. International Competitiveness: business environment and its components, connections and links, selected indicators of the quality of the business environment.
7. The function of international trade in relation to the national economy, the forms of involvement of business entities in international trade.
8. International Trade of Developed Countries.
9. International Trade of Developing Countries.
10. International Trade of the Czech Republic.
11. Globalization and Internationalization. Strategies and forms of enterprise entry into international markets. Direct and indirect forms of entry. Capital and non-capital inputs.
12. Management of International Business Operations: starting points, delivery and payment terms, financing, logistics and risk.
13. International Trade Control, Reporting, Corporate Governance, CG Regulating and Comparison, Mechanisms and Processes, Types of Investors, CG, Strategies and stakeholders.
Exercise
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
1. International Economic Organizations and Regionalism in the World Economy and in the Trade: the core and its forms, benefits and risks, breakdown and overview of major regional groups with impact on the business environment and the trade.
2. Importance of International Trade and the Role of the GATT and the WTO in the liberalization of international trade.
3. Development Trends in International Trade in the 20th and 21st Centuries: territorial structure and commodity structure of international trade, high dynamics of trade in goods and services.
4. The Major Centers of the World Economy: quantitative comparisons - USA, Japan, China, EMU and others - integration processes from aspects of international trade.
5. Transformation Process in the Central and Eastern European Countries: the nature and content of the transformation process, the transformation process strategy, cooperation and evaluation of transformation from the time point of view.
6. International Competitiveness: business environment and its components, connections and links, selected indicators of the quality of the business environment.
7. The function of international trade in relation to the national economy, the forms of involvement of business entities in international trade.
8. International Trade of Developed Countries.
9. International Trade of Developing Countries.
10. International Trade of the Czech Republic.
11. Globalization and Internationalization. Strategies and forms of enterprise entry into international markets. Direct and indirect forms of entry. Capital and non-capital inputs.
12. Management of International Business Operations: starting points, delivery and payment terms, financing, logistics and risk.
13. International Trade Control, Reporting, Corporate Governance, CG Regulating and Comparison, Mechanisms and Processes, Types of Investors, CG, Strategies and stakeholders.