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Institute of Romance Languages and Literatures

30 cp Economics

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  • Supply and Operations Management (Supply and Operations Management)

    0170dA1.7

    learning objectives:
     Students are sensitive to the centrality of the production of goods or services as a core function of any operational occurrence. They also know the challenges associated with the transformation of inputs into output factors under given resources. They have basic knowledge of the current, field-tested strategies, methods and models to solve production-economic problems, in particular with respect to the time schedule of the individual production steps, taking into account the quantitative link between inputs and output objects. The students also have an overview of the procurement management (supply management), where development of and cooperation with suppliers is an important topic.

    course content:
     Demand forecast, materials management (especially storage), choice of production processes and suppliers, procurement strategies and organization, human resource planning, approaches to quality assurance, production theory and production planning, work organization within production.

    types of course units / workload per unit / obligatory or optional participation
     Vorlesung / 2 SWS / Teilnahme wird empfohlen
    Übung / 2 SWS / Teilnahme wird empfohlen

    test
     Klausur (ca. 120 Minuten)

    language of instruction:
     German

    workload
     180 hours (6 ECTS)

    duration / frequency
    one semester / every winter semester

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  • Strategisches Management (Strategic Management)

    0170dA1.8

    learning objectives:
     Students gain a fundamental understanding of current challenges involved in the strategic management of businesses today. They learn about the goals and responsibilities involved with this field as well as its main instruments and methods. They learn the essential theoretical principles of strategic management and can analyze the stages of strategic decision-making based on these theories. They also become familiar with alternative competitive strategies, which come at the end of strategic analysis and can appraise them critically.

    course content:
     Responsibilities of strategic decision-makers, analysis of resources and capabilities, analysis of market conditions, assessment of alternative competitive strategies and collective corporate strategies.

    types of course units / workload per unit / obligatory or optional participation
     Vorlesung / 2 SWS / Teilnahme wird empfohlen
    Übung / 2 SWS / Teilnahme wird empfohlen

    test
     Klausur (ca. 120 Minuten)

    language of instruction:
     German

    workload
     180 hours (6 ECTS)

    duration / frequency
    one semester / every winter semester

    close
    • 10110801 Lecture
      Strategic Management (V) (Stephan Bohn, Johann Voigtsberger)
      Schedule: Mo 12:00-17:00 (Class starts on: 2025-10-20)
      Location: , HFB/C Hörsaal
    • 10110802 Practice seminar
      Strategic Management (Ü) (Stephan Bohn, Johann Voigtsberger)
      Schedule: Termine siehe LV-Details (Class starts on: 2025-10-29)
      Location: Mo HFB/C Hörsaal (Garystr. 35-37), Di HFB/C Hörsaal (Garystr. 35-37), Di Hs 103 Hörsaal (Garystr. 21), Mi Online, Do HFB/C Hörsaal (Garystr. 35-37), Do Hs 103 Hörsaal (Garystr. 21), Do Hs 105 Hörsaal (Garystr. 21)

  • Fundamentals of Employment Relations

    0170dA1.9

    learning objectives:
     Students gain knowledge about current issues and theoretical approaches in personnel policy research. They acquire basic knowledge on areas of activity and the parameters of personnel policy. They learn about current debates and can make connection to practical applications, including international contexts. They develop the ability to interpret personnel policy cases based on the application of theoretical approaches and concepts. They also learn to formulate and evaluate courses of actions for specific cases. They learn to assess theoretical, conceptual research as well as empirical research using criteria from the social sciences. Student gain knowledge about the role of gender in the workplace and the challenges and perspectives surrounding social diversity in businesses. The methods that the students learn and apply enable them to put their knowledge to practice based on theoretical reflection, which is important for anyone working in management.

    course content:
     Problems and theoretical approaches to personnel policy as a research field; courses of action in human resources management (e.g., recruiting, qualification, personnel placement, work organization, remuneration, dismissals, diversity management); social parameters of personnel policy (e.g., historical developments, gender and labor, digitalization) in both national (e.g. democratic decision-making, labor market, labor law) and international contexts (e.g. personnel policy in multinational corporations, comparative international labor relations, global labor standards).

    types of course units / workload per unit / obligatory or optional participation
     Vorlesung / 2 SWS / Teilnahme wird empfohlen
    Übung / 2 SWS / Teilnahme wird empfohlen

    test
     Klausur (ca. 120 Minuten)

    language of instruction:
     German

    workload
     180 hours (6 ECTS)

    duration / frequency
    one semester / every winter semester

    close
    • 10111001 Lecture
      Introduction to Employment Relations (V) (Manuel Nicklich)
      Schedule: Mi 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2025-10-15)
      Location: Mi HFB/A Hörsaal (Garystr. 35-37), Mi Hs 101 Hörsaal (Garystr. 21)
    • 10111002 Practice seminar
      Introduction to Employment Relations (Ü) (Jule Klink, Manuel Nicklich)
      Schedule: Di 14:00-16:00, Di 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2025-10-21)
      Location: Hs 104 Hörsaal (Garystr. 21)

  • Unternehmenskooperation (Business Cooperation)

    0170dB1.1

    learning objectives:
     Students gain an overview of fundamental questions and recent developments in inter-firm cooperation: from research and development to production and marketing. They learn about the typical strategic and organizational challenges of inter-firm cooperation. They become familiar with and understand selected concepts and theories related to the management of inter-organizational relations and learn how to use them in analyzing problems that arise in in handling concrete cases.

    course content:
     Management as a function, institution and practices; organizational and legal forms of inter-firm relations; from a system of internal contracts and putting-out system to project networks and virtual companies; reflective network development through network management.

    types of course units / workload per unit / obligatory or optional participation
     Vorlesung / 2 SWS / Teilnahme wird empfohlen
    Methodenübung / 2 SWS / Teilnahme wird empfohlen

    test
     Klausur (ca. 120 Minuten)

    language of instruction:
     German

    workload
     180 hours (6 ECTS)

    duration / frequency
    one semester / every winter semester

    close
    Module with no course offerings

  • Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility

    0170dB1.2

    learning objectives:
     Students gain basic knowledge of the parameters and courses of action in corporate governance and corporate social responsibility (CSR). They learn about current issues and theoretical approaches in corporate governance (CG) research as well as new approaches being developed in CSR. Students develop their ability to interpret cases involving business practices and questions of regulation with respect to CG or CSR based on the application of theoretical approaches and concepts. They also learn to develop courses of action for specific cases and critically evaluate them. Through research-oriented teaching, students learn how to develop a social science research question on a given topic. They also learn how to debate theories and concepts as well as how to assess the significance of both theoretical, conceptual research as well as empirical studies.

    course content:
     CG and CSR theories (e.g. agency theory, stakeholder theory, institutionalist approaches); ownership structures; the influence of shareholders on corporate policy; the role of executive and supervisory boards and non-executive directors; executive board remuneration; the market for corporate governance; democratic decision-making and employee participation; conflicts of interest and gatekeeper failure; regulation and self-regulation (e.g. codes); international comparison of CG structures and CSR with regard to social and political processes of governance in multinational companies.

    language of instruction:
     German/English

    workload
     180 hours (6 ECTS)

    duration / frequency
    one semester / irregular

    close
    Module with no course offerings

  • International Management (International Management)

    0170dB1.3

    learning objectives:
     Students learn to classify different institutional frameworks in which multinational companies operate economically and understand the unique qualities of individual national forms of economic organization and corporate governance. They learn to identify comparative advantages that certain economic activities have in different national contexts as well as the difficulties involved in the internationalization of certain activities. They learn to describe multinational corporations in terms of organization forms and become familiar with the different challenges associated with, on the one end, the local adaptation of their activities and, on the other, the global integration of them. They learn to apply their knowledge of these issues to questions of personnel management in an international context and question of international strategic management. They learn to critically assess the actions of multinational corporations and the implications of their activities in home and host countries. Through research-oriented teaching, students learn how to develop a social science research question on a given topic. They also learn how to debate theories and concepts as well as how to assess the significance of both theoretical, conceptual research as well as empirical studies.

    course content:
     Topics include: formal and informal institutions from an international comparative perspective; theories on comparative advantages of institutions; labor relations systems; corporate governance systems; professional/vocation training and innovation systems; the role of the state; globalization; emerging markets; foreign direct investment; organizational forms of multinational companies; global supply chains; internationalization theories; market entry and market cultivation strategies; personnel management in multinational companies. The study and analysis of the various topics will focus on specific countries in Asia (Japan, China), Europe (Germany, UK), and America (USA).

    language of instruction:
     German/English

    workload
     180 hours (6 ECTS)

    duration / frequency
    one semester / irregular

    close
    Module with no course offerings

  • Project Management

    0170dB1.5

    learning objectives:
     This module includes, on the one hand, selected traditional topics in project management, such as methods and tools for project planning, management, and supervision. On the other hand, the module adopts a social sciences perspective on projects as a form of temporary organization, based above all on organizational theory. In addition to projects, students will also look at other forms of organizing that are of limited duration. Students learn to understand to what extent and why projects have developed into a widespread form of organization. They learn to distinguish between different project forms and their characteristics and to recognize forms of temporary structural and process organization, which they can then apply to real situations. They become familiar with different project planning and management techniques, which they also learn to implement. They learn how to handle social and organizational questions of project management, and how to differentiate other forms of temporary organization beyond projects and classify their specific characteristics. They learn to differentiate various forms of organization across projects and become familiar with interdisciplinary connections (e.g. with areas like organization, personnel, innovation, entrepreneurship).

    course content:
     Towards a “projectification” of society?; project management in organizations; project management in networks; management of other organization forms of limited duration; the future of temporary organizing

    language of instruction:
     German

    workload
     180 hours (6 ECTS)

    duration / frequency
    one semester / every second Semester

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    Module with no course offerings

  • Management - Eine problemorientierte Einführung

    0518cA1.1

  • Organisationstheorie

    0518cA1.2

    learning objectives:
     The students have a systematic overview of the theories, structures and processes of the organization. You are able to identify current problems in organizations both theoretically and practically and to develop appropriate solutions for them. With regard to the content learned, students can responsibly define, reflect on and evaluate goals for learning and work processes as well as learning and Design work processes independently and sustainably.

    course content:
     The module covers the topics of classical, modern and postmodern organizational theories, organization and society in a historical perspective, basic theories and concepts of organizational design, connection between corporate structure and strategy, global organizational design, organization of innovation, change and agility, leadership structures and political processes in organizations, diversity and sustainable organizational design.

    language of instruction:
     German / English

    workload
     180 hours (6 ECTS)

    duration / frequency
    one semester / every summer semester

    close
    Module with no course offerings

  • Organisationsforschung

    0518cA1.3

    learning objectives:
     The students know current theories and research questions in the areas of strategy and cooperation as well as organization and personnel and know how these are empirically applied and examined. They are With regard to the content learned, they are able to make responsible decisions in expertise teams and to lead groups responsibly. You can evaluate and argue for complex subject-related problems and solutions and develop it further with experts.

    course content:
     The students are familiarized with the most important basics of scientific work an overview of essential theories and apply them using examples. The focus is on, among other things: the following content: Basic theories in the field of management; Planning a research project, quantitative and qualitative research methods, connection between theory and empiricism.

    language of instruction:
     German / English

    workload
     180 hours (6 ECTS)

    duration / frequency
    one semester / every semester

    close
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