AIB South Asia Workshop Series: Teaching International Business Strategy

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 the international markets. It has become more chaotic post pandemic and with increased regional tensions. Strategic considerations while going beyond home country, configuring and coordinating business activities, roles of foreign subsidiaries, cross-border strategic alliances, etc. are some of the decisions which an organization must take 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 chain, emergence of global protectionism, the Korean disturbances, 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. This workshop will also cover aspects of evaluation and expected course outcomes.

WORKSHOP LEADER

K. Rangarajan is Professor of Strategy at IIFT and heading the Kolkata Campus. He has been teaching International Business Strategy to various target groups including PGP students, working executives and policy makers.

He has also conducted FDPs on International Business Strategy fir faculty under the ageis of Strategic Management Forum.  He is also the founder head of Center for MSME Studies. He is an Accredited Management Teacher (AMT) conferred by All India Management Association and member of several professional bodies including AIMM (Australia). He has widely published in various journals and published two books. In his more than three decades stint in Academia, he served in various leading academic institutions in their Boards and Academic councils.

 He has written several case studies and also carried out case analysis of various MNCs. He has more than three decades of experience in teaching and consultancy apart from four years of industry experience with MNC, and serving in overseas universityHe has lectured on Strategic Issues of the industry on various national and international forums and Associations and Management Development forum including overseas universities like Yunan University, Vietnam Institute of Foreign Trade, ITD Bangkok etc. He has served as National Expert for UNIDO, Austria, ILO and Commonwealth Secretariat in different projects. He also executed Capacity Development Program for SMEs in Mekong Countries, sponsored by Swiss Agency for Development and Coordination. He is a member of CII, Western Region in its Trade Policy Committee. As a member of MSME Committee of FICCI, he has contributed in their new agenda for development of MSMEs in the Country. He serves in several industry associations in various capacities. He is nominated as Independent Director into the board of State Trading Corporation, by Government of India. He is also the member of the Steering Committee for promotion of exports, Government of West Bengal, Commerce & Industries Department. He has been engaged as an expert by Dun & Bradstreet, Middle East and also invited by Global Innovation Forum as an expert for the Conference in Pujiang Innovation Forum at Shanghai, PRC. He is also appointed as the Vice Chairman of AIB South Asia Chapter. Currently, he has also been nominated in the Core Group constituted by Textiles Ministry, Govt. of India for Textiles Exports.