Master’s in International Marketing and Brand Management

Course code: BUSN20 | Download syllabus

Course code: BUSN21 | Download syllabus

Course code: BUSO30 | Download syllabus

Course code: BUSO31 | Download syllabus

The objective of the course is to introduce students to Retail management. The retail sector is the dynamic, multifaceted and highly competitive part of our economy from which some of the world’s leading firms originate, and it is also where production meets daily consumption. Today, the retail landscape is changing fast and the development of innovative business models create new conditions and challenges for the retail manager. The course aims at providing an overview and analysis of the development and current themes within the field of retail management, with particular focus on multichannel marketing and internationalization.

Course code: BUSP36 | Download syllabus

Brands are today ascribed with great value. However they are valuable for different reasons and for different actors. For companies brands are considered as the most valuable asset, enabling them to compete successfully on global markets. For consumers brands simplify choice, they offer them identity value, social value, and the value of long-term relationships.  This course offers a multifaceted understanding of the value of brands and branding. The aim of the course is to provide the students with advanced knowledge of the value of brands, by treating brands and branding from various perspectives; including a brand management, a consumer, and a critical perspective.

Course code: BUSN33 | Download syllabus

The objectives of this course are to promote theoretical perspectives as well as empirical knowledge about the challenges of corporate activities in the context of sustainability. The course encompasses managerial perspectives on the integration of business objectives with wider social and environmental well-being as a key function of contemporary management.

The Global business and sustainability management pathway aims to help students to become knowledgeable and socially and environmentally responsible business leaders. With learning drawn from many different disciplines, students will develop the skills to research issues and respond to opportunities in ways that balance business interests with wider social and resource implications. This pathway offers a forward-thinking learning experience which reveals the importance of sustainability to all sectors of global business.

The course outlines how social and environmental sustainability influences the firm. In doing so perspectives and models related to corporate social responsibility, stakeholder and shareholder theory, value creation and setting corporate objectives  and performance targets are utilized.

Course code: BUSP35 | Download syllabus

Today, almost all marketing related activities have a digital component. This advanced level course is targeted towards students who would like to specialize in digitalization of marketing. The course consists of six major parts.

• The first part, think, is devoted to researching, planning and strategic preparation for digital marketing campaigns.
• The second part, create, enables you to generate functional and appealing digital marketing contents.
• In the third part, engage, you will focus on engaging potential and existing customers in order to drive traffic to the digital marketing contents.
• The fourth part is labeled retain as the focus of the course shifts toward building and maintaining strong relationships with customers.
• In the fifth part, optimize, you will learn how to track, analyze, and optimize the performance of digital marketing campaigns via data-driven insights.
• The sixth and final part, build, emphasizes the process of building strong brands in the digital marketing environment.

Course code: BUSO38 | Download syllabus

This is a course that aims to advance students’ philosophical, critical, and analytical understanding of fundamental concepts academic research leans upon, and ultimately be able to master this conceptual understanding in order to initiate their own research strategy and knowledge generation.

Among the most important concepts are the following included:

• Theory
• Theoretical Contribution
• Problematisation
• Positioning

Course code: BUSP37 | Download syllabus

Within marketing and management there is a long tradition of conducting qualitative fieldwork/research. The choice of research method should be based on careful consideration of the aim of the research project, the nature of the unit of analysis and empirical object, the epistemological basis of different methods, the type of empirical data available and accessible, and the desired outcomes of the project. Researchers thus face an array of methodological decisions, the answer to which will greatly impact the both the practical feasibility of the study and the validity, reliability, and generalizability of the findings.

Questions related to qualitative research methods are therefore of pivotal importance not only for students and researchers but also to management and marketing practitioners. This relates to (i) the ability to conduct scholarly research and business/market research in an informed and robust way and (ii) the ability to assess and critically review others’ research, be it scientific studies or market research.

Against this backdrop, the aim of the course is to enhance the students’ knowledge and understanding of the most commonly used methods for collecting and analyzing qualitative data within marketing and management. Moreover, the ambition is to offer examples of how different types of data can be used for different kinds of analyses. More specifically, the course aims to offer the students the possibility to develop:

1. A broad methodological repertoire and the ability to assess the appropriateness of different methods
2. The ability to argue for and defend methodological choices
3. A reflexive and nuanced approach to knowledge claims

Course code: BUSR31 | Download syllabus

This course aims at providing the necessary statistical skills needed for a position as project manager of a marketing research study. The course focuses on the application of statistical methods and the interpretation of the results, not on the detailed statistical constructs. The course covers sampling techniques, questionnaire design and attitude measuring, design of experiments and variance analysis, regression and correlation analysis, factor analysis, cluster analysis, multidimensional scaling, correspondence analysis and conjoint analysis within the marketing research framework.

Course code: STAR04 | Download syllabus

In contemporary society consumption is regarded to be of great importance. From an economic point of view consumption is often considered as a key factor for prosperity where statistical patterns of peoples’ consumption often is used as an indicator of economic growth or decline. From a business- and marketing perspective consumption has for several years been considered a prerequisite for company operations and success. This has generated a profound need among marketers to not only understand consumption as a phenomenon but also to understand the behavior and practices of consumers.

This course aims at providing students with a holistic yet deep theoretical understanding of consumption, consumers, and contemporary consumer society. It contains not only the dominant perspective of consumer behavior, but also sociocultural, critical, and political perspectives that provide valuable theoretical insights of various forms of consumption practices, consumption phenomenon, and the role of consumption in contemporary society.

The different perspectives and their underlying assumptions and theoretical background are brought up, interrogated, compared and linked to each other in order to support the course’s aim. Typical questions that will be dealt with during the course are: 

How and why do people buy and consume things?

How do rationality, emotionality, and experience structure peoples’ consumption?

Why and how does consumption relate to identity and sociality?

How do status, recognition and social class connect to peoples’ consumption practices?

How may consumption become production?

What is the relationship between consumption and politics?

In what way has consumer society developed historically and what are the main characteristics of contemporary consumption society?

Course code: BUSN26 | Download syllabus

In order to study and understand the corporate brand management and reputation processes the following areas are covered:

• The history of corporate branding and the key roles of modern branding (brands,logotypes and symbols) and the distinction between product brands and corporate brands
• Corporate brand identity and alignment of its key elements
• Corporate behaviour, corporate social responsibility and internal branding
• The core of a corporate brand: Promise and core values
• Corporate branding in different contexts: B2C, B2B, Service & Retailing, Public sector, Not-for-profits, Institutions, and Cities, regions and countries
• Corporate brand strategy and structure: Roles and relations between brands (Mother brand, Mother and Daughter, Daughter and Mother, Daughter with Discrete Mother)
• Corporate brand communication and reputation management
• Corporate brand crisis management
• Brand-oriented and market-oriented approaches

Course code: BUSN35 | Download syllabus

Course code: BUSN24 | Download syllabus

The students work independently, in smaller groups with designing and conducting their own study and on presenting their study in the form of a final written master thesis. This includes to search for and to select relevant literature on the appropriate theoretical area as well as on research methodology, and to collect relevant empirical data through field studies and documentary research. The students are also expected to read and discuss the work of other students that attend the same course.

Course code: BUSN39 | Download syllabus