Defense

  • 15-20 min. master thesis presentation (slides are recommended, but need not mandatory)
  • 15-20 min. oral examination on the thesis and its associated subject area (including the major/minor in which the thesis is situated)

2nd examination subject area

  • 15-20 oral examination of the second subject area (major/minor/specialization)

While both parts are graded separately, both parts MUST be passed successfully, otherwise the whole exam has to be repeated.

Literature list for the final oral examination with Prof. Fabel

Content of all lectures completed within the scope of  Organization and Personnel I+II as well as:

  • Milgrom, P. and J. Roberts, Economics, Organization and Management, Prentice Hall.
  • Brickley, J.A., C. W. Smith and J. L. Zimmerman, Managerial Economics and Organizational Architecture, McGraw-Hill
  • Besanko, D., D. Drabove, M. Shanley and S. Schaefer, Economics of Strategy, John Wiley & Sons.
  • Lazear, E.P., Personnel Economics for Managers, John Wiley & Sons.

 

Please note this is for students picking Organization and Personnel as their SECOND examination topic. If you have written your thesis in this module you will need to concentrate on the defense of your thesis and its scientific field.

Literature list for the final oral examination in the MINOR “International Management/International Business”

Literature for the MASTER EXAM in the MINOR “International Management/International Business” – WS 2025/26 & SS 2026

For the minor, you have to learn (A) Theory of International Firm; in addition, (B) International Market Entry, or (C) Global Strategy. Please inform me in advance which topic (B or C) you will choose.

(A) Theory of International Firm:

In addition, to the content of the course “Theory of International Firm”, the following literature is relevant:

  • Mats Forsgren, 2024, Theories of the Multinational Firm: A Multidimensional Creature in the Global Economy, Edward Elgar Publishing.

AND 

the following papers (please choose 6 theories – 2 from EACH GROUP - and inform me - 2 days before the exam - by email which theories you have chosen):

    • GROUP 1:
      • Hymer (1960), Chap. 1 and 2 – Market power view
      • Vernon (1966) – Product life cycle
      • Teece (1986) and Coase (1937) – Transaction cost view
      • Dunning (1979) – Eclectic theory
      • Meyer et al. (2009) – Resource-based Theory
      • Kogut and Zander (1993) – Organizational capability and   
      • Knowledge-based view
      • Johansson, Vahlne (1977) – Internationalization process view
    • GROUP 2:
      • Johansson and Mattsson (1990) – Network view
      • Egelhoff (1991) – Organization design view
      • Henisz, Williamson (1999) – Institution-based view
      • Gereffi, G. et al. (2005). The governance of global value chains
      • Brouthers et al. 2008 – Real option view
      • Madhok (1997) – Transaction Costs vs. Organizational Capability Perspectives
      • Luo and Tung (2018) – Spring board theory
    • GROUP 3:
      • Bruno and Lorenzo (2018) - Toward a theory of digital MNC
      • Brouthers et al. (2016) – Internationalization of Ibusiness Firms
      • Stallkamp and Schotter (2021) – Internationalization theory of digital platform firms
      • Kang et al. (2025). Platform-based multinational corporations
      • Singh et al. (2023). Platforms and Internationalization of smaller enterprises

You will find the papers on ucloud in the folder MASTER EXAM - LITERATURE to the Theory of international Firm. All these topics were covered in the “Theory of International Firm”-course.

 

(B) International Market Entry

In addition, to the content of the course “International Market Entry”, the following literature is relevant:

Literature for (B):

  • Welch, L. S., Benito, G. R., & Petersen, B., 2018, Foreign operation methods: Theory, analysis, strategy, Edward Elgar Publishing (Chapter: 1 - 4, 6, 8, 9, 10)

OR

(C) Global Strategy

In addition, to the content of the course “Global Strategy”, the following literature is relevant:

Literature for (C): 

  • M. W. Peng (2022), Global Strategic Management, South-Western, Cengage Learning, Chapter 2,3,4, 6,7,9, 10, 12.