2025 AIB South Asia Workshop Series: Teaching International Business Strategy – Session 1

Event Overview: Firms, in their urge to broaden business scope, internationalize operations and often tend to face strategic complexities. Such “strategic” and “organizational” challenges obstruct their competitiveness in international markets. The landscape has become more chaotic post-pandemic, with a notable rise in regional tensions. Strategic considerations related to configuring and coordinating business activities, the roles of foreign subsidiaries, cross-border strategic alliances, etc. are just a few of the key decisions an organization must make while internationalizing. It has become essential for any program in international business to address such strategic issues. The relevance of these issues are further heightened by the east-west divide, global value chains, the emergence of global protectionism, digital terrorism,  ESG compliances, etc.

This workshop aims to provide insights on the design and teaching of courses on International Business Strategy by providing a model course curriculum and an overview of its key pedagogic features. It will also cover aspects of evaluation and expected course outcomes.

This is the first session in a two-part workshop. The second and final session will take place on 27 September, 13:00-15:00 UTC.

WORKSHOP LEADER

K. Rangarajan has more than 25 years of professional experience in teaching, consulting, research, and academic administration which includes four years of industry experience at an MNC. He has traveled widely on various academic assignments, including work in the United Kingdom, United States, and Asia Pacific. He has lectured on Strategic Issues in industry on various national and international forums and associations. He has been faculty for a number of MDPs conducted for both policymakers and industry. He has conducted a research study entitled, “Implications of EU and US GSP Rules of Origin on the Exports of Indian Textiles and Clothing Industry” for the Commonwealth Secretariat, UK. He has coordinated with SMEs at various levels on strategic issues. He also writes regularly on issues regarding the sector on national dailies and refereed journals. He has conducted several seminars and workshops in India’s Industrial Clusters and abroad. He has served as National Expert for UNIDO, Austria for their Innovation in Textiles Industry Project. He served as National Expert for the Evaluation Missions of UNIDO for their projects implemented in India.