2025 (Current Year) Faculty Courses School of Engineering Undergraduate major in Industrial Engineering and Economics
Business Strategy and Organization
- Academic unit or major
- Undergraduate major in Industrial Engineering and Economics
- Instructor(s)
- Dai Senoo
- Class Format
- Lecture (Face-to-face)
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - 3-4 Tue / 3-4 Fri
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- IEE.D301
- Number of credits
- 200
- Course offered
- 2025
- Offered quarter
- 2Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 27, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
The course focuses on the basic frameworks of business strategy and organization. Students can analyze real cases using these frameworks. And also, students can revise the frameworks using the findings from analysis. Interaction between theory and practice is important to co-evolution. In the strategy theory part, we will discuss domain, resource based view, and competitive strategies. In the organization theory part, we will discuss motivation, leadership, and organizational structure.
Through lectures and group work, the course enables students get knowledge about business strategy and organization.
Course description and aims
At the end of this course, students will be able to explain the concept of business strategy and organization and acquire the ability to use several frameworks.
Keywords
Business strategy , Business organizaition.
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
In addition to lectures, interactive lecture styles (such as exercise, case discussion, etc.) will be used.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Orientation | Imagine the real examples of strategy and organization. |
| Class 2 | Introduction ob business strategy | Explain the definition of strategy. |
| Class 3 | Corporate strategy: Domain | Understand the domain stragety. |
| Class 4 | Corporate strategy: Resource based view | Understand the ｒesource based view. |
| Class 5 | Competitive strategy: Industry analysis | Be able to do industry analysis using framework. |
| Class 6 | Competitive strategy: Building competitive advantage | Understand the competitive advantage. |
| Class 7 | R&D strategy | Understand the R&D strategy |
| Class 8 | Introduction of business organization | Explain the definition of organization. |
| Class 9 | Organizational structure | Understand the demensions of organizational structure. |
| Class 10 | Organization design | Distinguish the type of organization. |
| Class 11 | Motivation | Understand the motivation.theories. |
| Class 12 | Leadership | Understand the leadership theories. |
| Class 13 | Human resource management | Understand the human resource management theories. |
| Class 14 | Summarization of the course | Have overall picture of the course. |
Study advice (preparation and review)
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.
Textbook(s)
Sakakibara(2002), Keieigaku nyumon, Nihon keizai shimbunsha.
Reference books, course materials, etc.
Sasaki(2016), Minnano keieigaku, Nohin keizai shimbunsha.
Other materials used in class can be found on T2SCHOLA.
Evaluation methods and criteria
Students’ course scores are based on final report (80%) and exercise problems (40%).
Related courses
- IEE.D302 ： Corporate Finance
- IEE.D203 ： Marketing
- IEE.D201 ： Introduction to Management
Prerequisites
none
Contact information (e-mail and phone) Notice : Please replace from ”[at]” to ”@”(half-width character).
senoo.d.aa[at]m.