COURSE UNIT TITLE

: COMPETITION POLICIES AND STRATEGIES

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
IKT 5120 COMPETITION POLICIES AND STRATEGIES ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Economics

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR TIMUÇIN YALÇINKAYA

Offered to

Economics

Course Objective

To enable the students to learn and evaluate how a competition policy should be developed and how competition strategies should be founded at the level of firm and national economy, in terms of an efficient market system.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To be able to understand the presence and significance of competition policy as a dimension of general economic policy.
2   To be able to learn the competition policy s planks and processing in the EU and the USA.
3   To be able to understand and assess the competition policy s formation and development in Turkey.
4   To be able to understand and assess transnational corporations and global production network with regard to global economy.
5   To be able to assess firms and national economies competition strategies in terms of global economic relations.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The Place of Competition Policy in Economic Policy
2 Competition Policy in the USA
3 Competition Policy in the EU
4 Competition Policy in Turkey
5 Contemporary Discussions on Economic Systems and Competition
6 Global Economic Structure
7 Transnational Corporations
8 Post-Fordism
9 Post-Fordism
10 New Management Approaches
11 Competition Strategies at the Level of Firm
12 Competition Strategies at the Level of Industry
13 Competition Strategies at the National Level
14 Competition Strategies at the Global Level

Recomended or Required Reading

Main reference:
Hüsnü ERKAN, Sosyal Piyasa Ekonomisi
Secondary references:
* Michael E. PORTER, Rekabet Stratejisi
* William I. ROBINSON, A Theory of Global Capitalism
* Robert ROSS ve Kent TRACHTE, Global Capitalism: The New Leviathan

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

To explain the theoretical approaches for assessing competition policy and strategies at macro level in accordance with the basic references and articles, and to enable the students to undertake researches on the cases and institutions and to discuss them.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.30 + FIN* 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.30 + RST* 0.40


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

timucin.yalcinkaya@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Giving the Lecture 13 3 39
Before/After Lecture Preperation Process (Weekly) 14 2 28
Preperation of presentation 1 10 10
Preperation for the mid exam 1 15 15
Preperation for the final exam 1 20 20
Preperation of essay 1 20 20
Final Exam 1 1 1
Mid Exam 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 134

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9
LO.1354
LO.2453
LO.3252
LO.443
LO.5445

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