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IBUS6019: Strategy and Emerging Markets
2026 unit information
How do firms formulate and sustain strategy in environments characterised by institutional complexity, volatility, and uneven development? This unit examines strategic decision-making in emerging market contexts through a rigorous multilevel perspective, integrating key theories from international business and strategy, including institutional theory and industrial organisation at the environmental level, the resource-based view at the firm level, and transaction cost economics at the activity level. These perspectives are used to analyse how location-specific conditions shape strategic choices related to internationalisation. The unit adopts a comparative and conceptual strategy-based approach rather than focusing on countries or regions. Students will engage with complex and often ambiguous strategic problems and be expected to integrate multiple theoretical perspectives. The unit is analytically intensive and places significant demands on students’ ability to work with theoretical ambiguity, challenge established frameworks and construct defensible arguments in complex and uncertain strategic settings.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Business (Business School)
| Study level | Postgraduate |
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| Academic unit | International Business |
| Credit points | 6 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. apply concepts and theoretical frameworks covered in this unit to formulate strategies to leverage emerging markets for international business
- LO2. research, evaluate and interpret data, collected through research or provided in class, to identify relevant issues and new business opportunities for international managers in emerging markets
- LO3. apply concepts and theoretical frameworks covered in this unit to propose well-justified solutions or make strategic choices to issues faced by business managers in emerging markets
- LO4. lead and/or contribute to well informed and insightful presentations or analytical discussions on strategies to leverage emerging markets for international business.
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Semester 1 2026
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney | |
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Semester 2 2026
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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