Course Manual INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION – week 25 Third trimester: week 14

Course Manual
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
3rd Year Bachelor
2013/2014
Third trimester: week 14 – week 25
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Summary of important rules and regulations for BScIBA and MSc students
General Information
Summary of Workshop/Team Registration dates
Student Advisers
Master Event
Third Year Elective Choices
Article 3.4 – Fraud
Financial Accounting (BAD06)
Innovation Management (BAD01)
Research Training & Bachelor Thesis (BAD10)
Supply Chain Management (BAD13)
Course Manuals give more detailed information about courses within a trimester.
They contain the following information per course:
course title, course code, number of credits;
name of coordinator;
teaching staff;
contact person, secretariat, room numbers, phone numbers, visiting hours;
educational form;
examination form;
examination regulation;
examples for examinations;
aims and objectives of the course;
extended description of the course content;
subjects per lecture/workshop;
required literature: books, syllabus, reader, sheets;
literature and course content to be examined;
recommended further reading.
Course Manuals will be available at the beginning of each trimester, for each year of the
programme.
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Summary of important rules and regulations for BScIBA and MSc students
The following rules and regulations, depending on your situation, may have an effect on your
studies. For more information and a detailed explanation of all of these rules please consult
the BSc IBA Examination Regulations.
RSM rules
The Bachelor-before-Master rule
Admission to all RSM Master programmes is only possible if students have completed the
entire Bachelor programme, without a single course left open.
Period of validity of grades
Final course grades (published in Osiris) for the bachelor programme are valid for six years.
The final course grades (published in Osiris) for the master programmes are valid for 3 years.
(Consult Examination Regulations for detailed information)
Compensation rule for 1st year courses
The compensation rule means you can compensate one insufficient grade (between 4.5 and
5.4) with at least two rounded 7s or one rounded 8 or higher, provided that you have passed
all your other courses of Bachelor 1 in your first year of enrolment. The grade for the compensated course will remain on your grade list and counts in the grade point average for the total
bachelor programme. (Consult Teaching & Examination regulations for detailed information)
Compensation rule for 2nd and 3rd year courses
Students (excluding Pre-Master students) may graduate from the BSc IBA programme with a
4.5 or higher for one examination part of the course year B2 or B3 (with the exception of the
minor, internship, and the Research Training & Bachelor Thesis), provided that the calculated
grade point average for the total bachelor programme (including the course to be compensated) mentioned in Article 6.2 paragraph 2 of the Rules and Guidelines is at least 7.0. This
compensation rule will only be applied by the Examination Board upon request. The grade for
the compensated course will remain on your grade list and counts in the grade point average
for the total bachelor programme. (Consult Examination Regulations for detailed information)
Last-Result Rule
Students have a free choice in the number of times that they wish to take a written examination. The result is the last grade obtained. If the material to be studied for an examination has
changed, the new material must be studied.
For the examinations of course year B1, the following rule applies: Once the BSA norm (as
specified in Article 9.2 of the Rules and Guidelines) is met, with or without compensation,
these examinations may not be retaken.
Should you decide during an examination that you would prefer not to submit your work for
grading, then you must inform the supervisor in your block (or room) in the M-building. The
supervisors will provide you with a red marker which you will be able to use to cross out your
answers. The supervisor will then collect your examination and the professor will be informed
that you do not want your examination to be graded.
General Information
You can download the Bachelor 3 Trimester 3 course manual, schedule, and book list via the
RSM IBA Current Students page (www.rsm.nl/current-students/iba). Also be sure to subscribe to all of your trimester 3 courses via SIN. If any changes to the schedule, registration dates, etc. should occur, these updates can be found in the respective SIN course channels.
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Tip: Take the time to peruse the message archive of your courses once a week to make sure
you are aware of all relevant registration dates, schedule changes, etc.
Registration for the final exams takes place via OSIRIS-Online. The registration dates are
always 35 to 7 days before the date of the exam. Mark your calendar!
More info: http://www.eur.nl/english/essc/student_administration/written/osiris/ and
http://www.rsm.nl/information-for/current-students/bachelor-iba/examinationsgrades/examination-registration/
An online course evaluation will be mailed to you at the end of each trimester 3 course. This
evaluation will remain open until the course’s exam date. The day of the final examination you
will receive a separate evaluation about the exam. Please take the time to fill in both of these
evaluations; your comments and feedback are greatly appreciated by members of the IBA
teaching staff and programme management.
Summary of workshop/team/mid-term registration dates – Register via SIN!
Financial Accounting (BAD06)
You can register for the tutorials via SIN the Monday through Thursday before each session.
Here are the exact dates:
Friday 4 April - Registration via SIN 31 March-3 April
Friday 11 April - Registration via SIN 7-10 April
Friday 25 April - Registration via SIN 21-24 April
Friday 2 May - Registration via SIN 28 April – 1 May
Friday 9 May - Registration via SIN 5-8 May
Friday 16 May - Registration via SIN 12-15 May
Friday 23 May - Registration via SIN 19-22 May
Friday 30 May - Registration via SIN 26-29 May
Friday 6 June – Registration via SIN 2-5 June
Innovation Management (BAD01)
Workshop 1 (14-15 April): Wed. 9 April – Sun. 13 April
Workshop 2 (28-29 April): Wed. 23 April – Sun. 27 April
Workshop 3 (12-13 May): Wed. 7 May – Sun. 11 May
Workshop 4 (2-3 June): Wed. 28 May – Sun. 1 June
Research Training & Bachelor Thesis (BAD10)
Registration for the Bachelor Thesis teams already took place in trimester 2.
Supply Chain Management (BAD13)
There is no team or workshop registration for this course.
Student Advisers
The student advisers’ key task is to support students with their IBA studies. Students may
contact one of the student advisers for information, advice and/or guidance. The student
advisers are familiar with all aspects of the course programmes and can assist students in
making decisions in the fields of study planning, study choices, internships, exchange,
a second study, mediation with regard to examination board issues, etc.
Students who are not able to continue their studies or experience delays, for instance because
of personal circumstances such as illness, handicap, family circumstances etc., may also turn
to the student advisers for personal advice and guidance. For more information and contact
details please consult the following site: http://www.rsm.nl/study-advice/bachelor-iba/
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Master Event
The next Master Event will be held on 15 April, 2014. This event will allow you to visit lectures, workshops and a general information market about the RSM master programmes. Staff
and Master student ambassadors will be present to answer your questions. To learn more
about the RSM Master programmes please visit www.rsm.nl/master
3rd year Elective choices (Exchange or Internship/Minor + 5 ECTS elective)
5 ECTS Options: There are a number of different options available to students who chose to
do a minor or an internship and who still need 5 ECTS in order to graduate. For detailed explanations about these options, please consult the following current students page:
http://www.rsm.nl/information-for/current-students/bachelor-iba/bachelor-3/elective-options/
Questions? Contact Raechel Torner (rtorner@rsm.nl)
Elective course from another faculty / university –with permission from the Examination
Board (http://www.rsm.nl/information-for/current-students/bachelor-iba/bachelor-3/electivefrom-another-faculty-or-university/ )
Language Elective - after successful completion of 2 modules of the same language
(http://www.rsm.nl/information-for/current-students/bachelor-iba/bachelor-3/languageelectives/ )
Article 3.4 – fraud
1. If in the matter of taking an examination, fraud – within the meaning of Article 1.2, paragraph 2 – is detected or suspected, this is set down in writing as soon as possible by the
invigilator or the examiner whom he/she must call in. The invigilator or the examiner may ask
the student to make available any items of evidence. A refusal to do this is recorded in the
written report. The student is given the opportunity to add written comments to the written
report of the invigilator or examiner. The written report and any written comments are handed
over to the Examination Board as soon as possible.
2. The Examination Board or the examiner may exclude a student who has cheated from
further participation in the examination during which the irregularity was detected, and/or take
other appropriate measures. The exclusion has the consequence that no result will be established for the examination concerned. Before the Examination Board decides to make the
exclusion, it gives the student the opportunity to give his/her account.
3. The other appropriate measures as referred to in paragraph 2 may consist of, among others, the following sanctions:
a. reprimand; b. invalidation of the examination concerned; c. exclusion from the examination
concerned for at most one year; d. exclusion from one or more rounds of examinations; e. a
combination of the above measures with a maximum of one year. f. in a serious case of fraud
the Examination Board may advise the Executive Board to end the enrolment for the programme of the person concerned once and for all.
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Financial Accounting
Course name:
Course code:
Course load:
Term:
Coordinator:
Course structure:
Course schedule:
Examination:
(BAD06)
Financial Accounting
BAD06
5 ECTS
3rd Trimester
Miriam Koning
Plenary lectures, exam trainings, e-learning and homework tutorials
PL Tuesday afternoons and Friday mornings, exam training Thursday
mornings, tutorials Friday mornings
Written closed book examination
Contact details
For communication with the lecturers or teaching assistant of this course, only the
following e-mail must be used: BAD06@rsm.nl
Miriam Koning (coordinator): office hours Friday afternoons 15.30-16.30 (room T843), week 14-23 (except week 16).
Teaching assistant: see Blackboard for more information
Course Overview
Financial information is vital for the functioning of our economies. Financial reports
are the principal means of communicating financial information about a corporation
to outsiders. The objective of this course is to help you become critical users of
financial reports. Achievement of this goal requires an understanding of the basic
principles that underlie financial accounting, as well as an appreciation of the
amount of judgment required in applying these principles. In addition, you should
gain an understanding of the limitations of financial reporting and the impact of
alternative accounting choices on the financial reports. Topics include: institutional
setting and fundamental concepts, measuring and reporting assets, liabilities and
net income, share capital, consolidated accounts, interpretation of financial reports,
and business ethics.
This course continues from the foundations established in the introductory course in
Foundations of Finance & Accounting and goes on to explore the theory, concepts
and procedures underlying external financial statements and reports for corporate
organizations.
The course is offered to you by department 7 Accounting & Financial Management.
Learning Goals
After completion of the course, the student should be able to:
 Explain and discuss the role and importance of financial statement information;
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Understand and discuss the conceptual framework of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and the institutional context of financial reporting;
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Describe the main reporting requirements for companies;
Understand the main items on a company’s balance sheet, income statement
and cash flow statement and their mutual relationships;
Prepare a balance sheet, income statement and statement of cash flows in
accordance with relevant accounting standards;
Account for the main items of the financial statements and apply the accounting
rules;
Determine the consequences of alternative valuation methods on shareholder
equity and earnings;
Calculate and interpret financial ratios;
Apply the basic rules of consolidation to a group of companies and prepare
consolidated financial statements.
Course Information
Before starting this course, it is recommended that you complete the introductory
course BAP69 Foundations of Finance & Accounting and BAB 01 Management
Accounting.
The course load of this course has been set at 5 ECTS, representing a time budget
of 140 hrs. For this course, you will spend most of the time reading and preparing
exercises. The teaching adds up to some 35 hrs of plenary lectures. This leaves
you with some 105 hrs of studying, implying ten weeks of 11 hrs of studying. Beware you will need these 11 hrs per week of studying in order to pass with a satisfactory grade.
You are strongly encouraged to read the assigned chapters before attending the
lectures. This will help you reinforce the concepts that are discussed and help you
to get the maximum out of the lectures. In addition, you are expected to prepare
assigned exercises before the lectures. Attempting the assigned work in advance
will make the lecture a more meaningful learning experience. Regular, consistent
class attendance is essential for success in this course, however attendance is not
mandatory. In accounting, your understanding of new topics often depends on your
comprehension of prior concepts.
The course organization consists of 5 different elements and combines lectures with
e-learning. There are four different lecture types: overview lectures, technical lectures, exam trainings and homework tutoring. In addition, we use MyAccountingLab
as our e-learning platform. Each of these course elements will be briefly explained
below.
1. Overview Lectures
The overview lectures (OL) are plenary lectures intended to give you directions and context for your study. Lectures tend to focus on the more challenging subjects. Handouts are available on Blackboard in advance.
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2. Technical Lectures
The technical lectures (TL) are plenary lectures during which the concepts
are applied to assigned exercises and cases. The cases assigned and discussed during the TL’s are on average more advanced than the end-of-chapter
material in the textbook. Understanding the TL material is necessary in order to
pass the exam.
3. Exam trainings
To help you prepare for the final exam, we’ve organized 5 exam trainings.
During these trainings you can familiarize yourself with the exam format and
experience the difficulty of trying to solve an exam question on your own under
strict time constraints
4. Homework tutorials
To support you with the homework that will be assigned every week via MyAccountingLab (see next item), we organize weekly homework tutorials. In
these workgroups you can ask any questions you may have in relation to the
assigned exercises. The exercises in MyAccountingLab are on average less
advanced than the cases in the TL’s. However, in order to really grasp the TL
cases, you need to have proficiency with the fundamentals (presented in the
end-of-chapter exercises and MyAccountingLab). Please note that the tutorials
are only open for those of you who actually prepared the exercises in MyAccountingLab. You can register for the tutorials via SIN the Monday through
Thursday before each session. See SIN ‘My Registrations’ for the exact dates.
5. MyAccountingLab
Extra material to practice is offered via MyAccountingLab (MAL), an Internetbased tool that allows students to autonomously solve multiple choice tests and
exercises at the pace that is most suitable for them. We strongly encourage its
use, since students are given the opportunity to practice concepts in an interactive
way until they have ‘mastered’ the topic. Past results clearly indicate that the
regular use of MAL significantly increases the likelihood of passing the exam with
a higher grade. Instructions on how to register and use MAL are presented in a
separate PPT file on Blackboard.
Literature
Textbook:
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Harrison, Horngren, Thomas and Suwardy (HHTS), ‘Financial Accounting,
International Financial Reporting Standards, 8th global edition’. ISBN:
9781783990931
For the accounting textbook, we offer two options:
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A custom edition pack with the printed textbook and an access code for
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MyAccountingLab including e-book access (limited print options) ,valid
for 4 years; ISBN 9781783990931
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A standalone access code for MyAccountingLab including e-book access (limited print options), valid for 4 years; ISBN 9781783999835
Class materials (lecture slides, notes) and additional readings
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* Important note: The special Erasmus custom edition of the book is only sold on
campus. Only Studystore Erasmus and STAR sell the correct version of the book
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which includes the right access code for MyAccountingLab .
Examination
Final Examination: Tuesday, 17 June 2014, 09:30 - 12:30
Re-sit Examination: Friday, 11 July 2014, 09:30 - 12:30
Registration via Osiris required. You can register from 35 to 7 days before the
examination.
The written closed book exam consists of 40 multiple choice questions (abcd) concerning all of the topics covered during the course and the assigned chapters from
the book.
Bonus system
For the current academic year, we offer a bonus system through which a maximum
of 0.5 bonus point can be obtained. Participation in the bonus system requires your
online availability on Wednesdays from 18.30 hrs till 20.30 hrs in weeks 15, 17, 19,
21 and 23. The following conditions apply with regard to the bonus system:
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By participating in the bonus system you can earn the right to answer the bonus question on the final exam (and/or resit exam) in the academic year 20132014. With this bonus exam question you can earn a maximum of 0.5 bonus
point.
The bonus point will be added to your exam grade only if you score 4.5 or
higher for the exam. Your final grade for the course is capped at 10.
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The bonus system is offered via MyAccountingLab (the online learning platform, see also point 5 of the Course Information section of this Course manual).
We count 4 (out of 5) bonus assignments, based on best performance.
If you answer the bonus exam question correctly, your bonus point will be calculated as follows:
Number of bonus assignments with “pass” *
Points for bonus exam
question
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0.125
0.250
0.375
0.500
0.500
*) You receive a “pass” for a bonus assignment if you score 60% or higher on the
bonus assignment.
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Students Retaking the Course
Students retaking the course must complete the exams as they are required for the
current academic year. The examination for re-takers is thus based on the content
and conditions that apply to the current academic year (2013-2014).
Lecture schedule
The preliminary lecture schedule is as follows:
Lecture
Week
Day
Time
Room
14-23
Tuesday
15.00-16.45
LB-107
Except
week 16
Technical Lectures
14-23
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week 16)
Friday
09.00-10.45
CB-1
Except
week 16
Exam Trainings
18,19,20,21,
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14-22
Thursday
09.00-10.45
Friday
12.00-14.45 (except 16 May)
Check SINOnline
Check SINOnline
Overview Lectures
Homework
Tutorials
Please refer to Blackboard for a detailed schedule of the plenary lectures, including
topics and assigned book chapters. Always check Sin-online for up-to-date timetables. Changes (other than changes in lecture rooms) are announced on Blackboard. A schedule with the assigned exercises and cases per Technical lecture is
available on Blackboard. The homework exercises (to be discussed in the homeTM
work tutorials) are available in MyAccountingLab .
Registration dates – Homework Tutorial Sessions
Friday 4 April - Registration via SIN 31 March-3 April
Friday 11 April - Registration via SIN 7-10 April
Friday 25 April - Registration via SIN 21-24 April
Friday 2 May - Registration via SIN 28 April – 1 May
Friday 9 May - Registration via SIN 5-8 May
Friday 16 May - Registration via SIN 12-15 May
Friday 23 May - Registration via SIN 19-22 May
Friday 30 May - Registration via SIN 26-29 May
Friday 6 June – Registration via SIN 2-5 June
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Innovation Management
(BAD01)
Course name:
Course code:
Course load:
Term:
Coordinator:
Teaching staff:
Innovation Management
BAD01
4 ECTS
3rd Trimester
Dr. D.A. Stam
Dr. D.A. Stam
Dr. M. Tarakci
Dr. A. Bobelijn
Dr. M. Venus
O. Ali Acar MSc
S.G.M. Langeveld MSc
Guest lecturers
Course structure: Plenary lectures and workshops
Course schedule: Thursday (except for workshops which are on Mondays and Tuesdays,
see schedule)
Examination:
Written, closed book exam; multiple choice and/or open questions
Contact Information
Dr. D. Stam, coordinator, Room T10-49, im-iba@rsm.nl.
Office hours: by appointment only
Course Overview
What is Innovation Management?
Innovation management is turning ideas for new products or services to commercial
success. This transformation process is typically multi-disciplinary in nature, which
means that in practice people from different backgrounds and with various specializations work together. The innovation process combines creativity and arts, marketing and technology, psychology to understand customers, organizational design to
create a proper innovative organization, law in relation to patents and to government regulation, and many more fields of expertise. All these different perspectives
must be used to select the few good ideas out of hundreds of ideas and to turn
those good ideas into commercially successful applications.
The Position of Innovation Management in the Curriculum
Entrepreneurship, Strategic Management, and Innovation Management all address
important elements of strategic and organizational change in order to create competitive advantage. Entrepreneurship focuses on new business development and
management of small and start-up companies. Strategic Management focuses on
strategic positioning of (typically) large corporations. In both Entrepreneurship and
Strategic Management innovation is discussed as an important part of corporate
strategy, but innovation management will not be discussed in great detail. In contrast, Innovation Management focuses on all aspects of managing the innovation
process, from a strategic perspective as well as from an operational perspective.
Innovation Management analyzes amongst others parallel and serial product development, modular designs and platforms, portfolio management, multi-disciplinary
teams, new organizational structures (like innovation hubs at the corporate level or
new ventures at the business unit level) and cooperation with other companies.
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Innovation Management Literature
As innovation processes in practice are multi-disciplinary, the literature also makes
use of many disciplines and perspectives. Innovation Management combines the
strategic with the operational. The literature analyzes complex and detailed processes of teams working on new products and services, on business plans, on
processes to allocate innovation resources among business units and projects, on
innovation focused transformation processes of business units themselves or even
whole corporations.
Goal and End Terms
The student is at the end of this course able to:
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Recognize and use the terminology and main concepts from the discipline
of Innovation Management;
Carry out a strategic analysis of the market dynamics and consequently
formulate the innovation strategy of a particular company and its implications;
Give a description of the organizational structure of a company with regard
to innovation and relate the type of innovation needed with the way to
manage them;
Explain how a selected innovation strategy relates to the firm’s organizational structure, to the allocation of people and resources to projects, and
to the execution of specific projects.
Department
The course is given by the section Innovation Management of the Department of
Technology and Innovation. This section is also responsible for the Master Program
Management of Innovation (MI).
More Detailed Information on the Course
Requirements
No explicit prior knowledge is demanded from the students participating in this course.
Time budget
Contact hours lectures (9 * 2 hrs)
Study literature
Workshop classes, incl. assignments (4 * 10 hrs)
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Format and nature of the class meetings
The course is taught in traditional lectures, guest lectures, and workshop classes.
There will be nine traditional lectures. In these lectures the content of the book
will be explained. Lecture 1 is an introduction to the course and to innovation management in general. Lectures 2-9 will discuss different chapters of the book as well
as additional articles from innovation management literature. It is expected that
students study the indicated literature in advance (see Blackboard for an overview
of the literature to be prepared for each lecture). During the lectures emphasis is
put on explanation and illustration of the concepts and theories from the book. The
slides of each lecture can be found on Blackboard (in Power Point “format”) before
the lectures. On some occasions during the regular lectures we will also have guest
lecturers. These guest lecturers are renowned speakers and experts in the field of
innovation management who will discuss their work and experiences
There will be four workshop classes. In these classes we discuss a specific case
related to innovation management. The workshop classes will deal with discussions
on the case and on the relationships of the case with concepts and theories from
the book and other literature. Students should sign in to participate in these workshops via Sin Online. The exact registration dates are listed below the timetable
(see last page). In order to be able to participate in these classes students are required to read the case, to read background literature (in the form of articles) and to
hand in the assignments based on the case and the literature. These assignments
are posted on Blackboard. The deadline for these assignments is the Sunday before
the case workshops start at 23:59 hours via safe-assignment on Blackboard. This
assignment will be assessed (with a grade from 0-10) and count towards the final
grade. Please note that these are individual assignments and that we thoroughly
check these assignments for plagiarism.
Rules of the game
We expect that students are present before the class starts and that the selected
literature has been studied. Presence at the lectures or workshop classes is not obligatory. Presence at the lectures and workshop classes is strongly recommended,
because the materials that are dealt with supersede the reading materials. Literature
dealt with in workshop classes is explicitly part of the exam (with the exception of the
cases discussed). This is also true for subjects discussed in guest lectures.
Literature (Study material for the exam)
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Goffin, K. & Mitchell, R., (2010) Innovation Management: Strategy and implend
mentation using the pentathlon framework, Palgrave Macmillan, 2 edition.
ISBN: 978-0-230-20582-6
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Articles for the workshops
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Class materials (slides, notes)
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Examination Dates
Final Examination: Friday 13 June, 2014, 09:30-12:30 hrs.
Re-Sit Examination: Friday 18 July, 2014 09:30-12:30 hrs.
Registration via Osiris required. You can register from 35 to 7 days before the
examination.
Assessment and Examinations
The closed book exam consists of closed questions and an open bonus question.
The final grade will be based on the exam grade (60%) and the average grade of all
4 assignments (40%). There is no minimum grade requirement. There is a re-sit for
the exam, but not for the assignments. The overall grade for the assignments (but
not individual grades of assignments) will be valid for two years (this year and the
next year but not subsequent years), but only if it is 5.5 or higher. The exam grade
is also valid for two years (this year and next year but not subsequent years), but
only if it is 5.5 or higher.
Bonus Points
Bonus points can be earned by participating in ERIM research at the ERIM Behavioral
Laboratory (students can earn 0.2 per credit with a maximum of 0.4 points for two
credits - approximately 1 hour of work). Bonus points for participating in ERIM research are only accredited when the final grade of the course - exam plus workshop
assignments - is 5.5 or higher. ERIM bonus points are only valid this year.
Students that have participated in at least 2 case workshops have the possibility to
answer a bonus-question during the exam. This can earn them a maximum of 1.0
added to their exam grade. We note that partial and final grades can never go above
10.0.
Students Retaking the Course
Students who retake this course last year must study the materials of the current academic year (2013-2014) for the exam. Furthermore, last year’s ERIM bonus points are
no longer valid. Students can use the overall grade for the assignments they made
last year (but not individual grades of assignments), but only if it is 5.5 or higher.
Students can also use last year’s exam grade, but only if it is 5.5 or higher. Please
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inform the coordinator before May 1 in case you want to use last year’s exam or
overall assignment grade (im-iba@rsm.nl). Always register for the exam (even if you
use last year’s grade).
Examination Perusal
Date, place and time of the perusal for the exam will be corresponded to you via
Blackboard or SIN-Online. For the assignments answer models are discussed during
workshop lectures and these are also posted on Blackboard. Requests to reconsider
exam or assignment grades must be submitted to the coordinators of this course in
paper or by email. We note that re-grading may also result in a lower grade.
Example examination questions
Some example examination questions will be provided during class and published
on Blackboard.
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Organisation and Format
Please take notice of the announcements on Blackboard or during the lectures concerning last minute changes or additional information.
Time Table
(Please check SIN-Online/My timetable regularly for possible changes!)
Date/time
3 April
11:00-12:45
Room
LB-07
Lecture
Lecture 1
Lecturer
Daan Stam
10 April
11:00-12:45
13 Apil
23:59
14-15 April
17 April
11:00-12:45
24 April
11:00-12:45
27 April
23:59
28-29 April
1 May
11:00-12:45
8 May
11:00-12:45
11 May
23:59
12-13 May
LB-07
Lecture 2
Daan Stam
Varies
Workshop 3
15 May
11:00-12:45
22 May
11:00-12:45
1 June
23:59
2-3 June
5 June
13 June
09:30-12:30
18 July
09:30-12:30
M2-03
Lecture 7
Annelies
Bobelijn
Daan Stam
LB-07
Lecture 8
Daan Stam
Milestone
Literature
Goffin & Mitchell
chapter 1,2, and 3
Deadline
Assignment 1
Varies
LB-07
Workshop 1
Lecture 3
Murat Tarakci
Daan Stam
LB-07
Lecture 4
Daan Stam
Goffin & Mitchell
chapter 5
Goffin & Mitchell
chapter 5
Deadline
Assignment 2
Varies
LB-07
Workshop 2
Lecture 5
Oguz Ali Acar
Daan Stam
LB-07
Lecture 6
Daan Stam
Goffin & Mitchell
chapter 4
Goffin & Mitchell
chapter 6
Deadline
Assignment 3
Goffin & Mitchell
chapter 7
Goffin & Mitchell
chapter 8, 9, and 10
Deadline
Assignment 4
Varies
LB-07
Mbuilding
Mbuilding
Workshop 4
Lecture 9
Exam
Merlijn Venus
Daan Stam
Resit Exam
Workshop Registration Dates (via SIN-Online)
Workshop 1 (14-15 April): Wed. 9 April – Sun. 13 April
Workshop 2 (28-29 April): Wed. 23 April – Sun. 27 April
Workshop 3 (12-13 May): Wed. 7 May – Sun. 11 May
Workshop 4 (2-3 June): Wed. 28 May – Sun. 1 June
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Research Training & Bachelor Thesis
Course name:
Course code:
Course load:
Term:
Coordinator:
Course structure:
Course schedule:
Examination:
Contact information:
(BAD10)
Research Training & Bachelor Thesis
BAD10
12 ECTS
Trimesters 2 and 3
Dr. A. Hak & S. Langeveld MSc.
See course schedule and the individual workgroup schedule
See SIN-Online
Assignments, Final Report
bt@rsm.nl
General aim of the course
The general learning objective of the Research Training & Bachelor Thesis course
is that you acquire the skills that are necessary for critically evaluating the results of
empirical studies. It is an important part of the responsibilities of a manager to draw
conclusions from reports that state that “research has shown” that a variable X (an
independent variable) is beneficial or detrimental for a variable Y (a dependent
variable). The independent variable might be a strategy; an intervention; an activity;
an investment; a policy; a condition; or any other variable specified in a study, and
the dependent variable might be “performance”; “success”; profits; sales; etcetera. If
the empirical claim (that X influences Y) is true, then managers are expected to use
this information in their actions and decisions. Because, however, an empirical
claim might be wrong (or a correct empirical claim might not be applicable to their
own situation), a manager must be able to critically evaluate that claim. Because
the ability to critically evaluate empirical claims is crucially dependent on a sound
understanding of statistical and methodological principles, the Research Training &
Bachelor Thesis course is a methodology course.
More specifically, after having finished this course you should be able
• To evaluate a report of a single study on a number of crucial elements, such as:
o Research strategy.
o Units that are studied.
o Measurement.
o Quantification of the observed effect.
• To avoid drawing any conclusion for managerial practice from a single study.
• To synthesize results from multiple studies.
• To write a critical evaluation of the empirical evidence regarding a claim about the
influence of an independent variable on a dependent variable.
The Research Training & Bachelor Thesis course is a hands-on course.You will
acquire critical reading skills by practicing them in a structured setting (“training”)
and by getting feedback on your practice reports. As in any practical – such as an
anatomy practical in a medical program, or a lab practical in a chemistry program –
you receive a set of tasks (an “assignment”); you complete the assignment and
report about it; an instructor gives you feedback; and you apply the feedback by
revising your text. In this course you will not only practice critical reading skills but
you will also get some experience with conducting an empirical study. The aim of
that part of this course is not that you learn to design and conduct an empirical
study yourself. Its aim is to help you in acquiring a better understanding of
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methodological principles and, in this way, to contribute to your critical reading
skills.
In this course it is assumed that you have not previously learned to critically
evaluate an empirical claim. The aim of this course is that you acquire this reading
skill, which is crucial for managerial practice. It is also assumed that you have not
previously designed and conducted an empirical study. Because this is not a crucial
part of managerial practice, it is not an aim of this course that you acquire the skills
for designing and conducting such a study. You will design and conduct an
empirical study in this course in order to become a better reader of research
reports.
How you will learn
Being designed as a “practical”, the learning method in this course consists mainly
of “learning by doing”, i.e., by doing something (probably for the first time and
probably imperfectly) and, then, understanding and applying an instructor’s
feedback on that work. You will study two books that explain core methodological
and statistical principles but you will learn what these principles mean by applying
them in your own project. Your project in this course consists of writing a critical
evaluation of the empirical evidence regarding a “hypothesis”, i.e., regarding a
general (“theoretical”) claim about the influence of an independent variable on a
dependent variable. You will do this in teams of three students.
Multiple parts and functions of the assignments
The course is designed as a ladder with eight steps. Each of these steps consists of
an assignment and a feedback session. Each assignment must be handed in before
the published deadline. The feedback sessions are scheduled two days after each
deadline.
Each of these eight steps consists itself of three consecutive elements.
1. The starting point for each assignment is a deliverable which is specified in the
course book. The deliverable is always accompanied with a set of instructions. Step
1 of each assignment is, thus, practicing as instructed by the course book.
2. You must hand in a report of how you have practiced and what you have
achieved in that practice. Hence step 2 of each assignment is writing a report.
3. Instructors will give you customized feedback from which you will learn how to
evaluate and, if necessary, to improve your skills. Step 3 of each assignment, thus,
is receiving feedback and learning from it.
One function of each assignment, thus, is that skills are practiced and that this
practice is reported and evaluated. From this perspective, assignments could be
seen as stand-alone teaching and learning occasions. However, the results of the
assignments are also cumulative. (That’s why the term ladder is used above.)
Taken together the assignments constitute one single project about which one
single report is written. This implies that two more functions of the assignments can
be specified:
1. In each assignment you will produce something (e.g., a literature review, a
research proposal, a data matrix, an estimate of an effect, a discussion) that directly
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and cumulatively contributes to the progress in your project. These outputs are
inputs in next assignments: a research proposal is applied; data are analysed; an
effect size is meta-analysed; etc.
2. In each assignment you will produce text that will be used (in a revised form) in
the final report.
Feedback from the instructor, therefore, is not only useful as a means of evaluating
what has been practiced and what has been learned in an assignment but also as
(a) An instruction for how to improve a result in such a way that it can be
used in the next step of the project, and as
(b) An instruction for how to revise your text before it can be used in the
final report.
You must revise your work according to the feedback that you receive and you must
integrate this in later assignments.
Mandatory reading
There are two mandatory books in this course:
• Geoff Cumming (2012). Understanding the new statistics. Routledge, New York.
This book is the main reference in this course regarding techniques of generating
and evaluating quantitative research findings.
• A digital course book that will be provided on Blackboard. This course book is the
main reference in this course regarding the principles of research methodology. It
also contains the eight assignments that you must complete in this course.
Your instructor is entitled to set additional texts as mandatory reading.
Workload
The workload of this course is 12 ECTS. The time equivalent of 12 ECTS is 42 days
of 8 hours each, or an average of about 5 full 8-hour working days per student per
assignment. The size of the assignments is based on this calculation. Evaluation of
your assignments is based on the assumption that this effort (5 days of work per
student, i.e., 15 days per student team) was available to the team and that it should
have been spent if needed.
Mandatory participation
Deadlines for submission of the assignments are strict and attendance at the
feedback sessions is mandatory. Only personal circumstances that are clearly
beyond your control (such as illness, urgent family circumstances, etc.) are
legitimate reasons for absence, for insufficient participation in team work, or for not
adhering to a deadline for submission of an assignment. Students who fail to
comply with these requirements (e.g., students who do not sufficiently contribute to
the work of their team; those who submit an assignment late; or do not participate in
a feedback session) will not get a grade for this course (and hence fail the course).
Please note that study trips, holidays, job interviews, seminars, business courses,
and so on are not valid reasons for being absent from a scheduled feedback
session.
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Note that instructors are not entitled to evaluate students’ reasons for absence and
to waive a student’s obligation to attend a feedback session. The course
coordinators, not your instructor, will decide on the appropriate sanctions if the
student adviser cannot validate the reasons for non-attendance in a feedback
session or for not meeting your other obligations in the course.
Plagiarism
In this course you will use ideas and other contents from a diverse set of sources
(such as scientific articles, papers, books, news media, etc.). If you make use of
such ideas and contents, you must always mention your source, regardless of
whether your source is in a library, on the Internet, or elsewhere. If you literally copy
text (either electronically by ‘cutting and pasting’ from documents or manually)
without using quotation marks and mentioning the source is plagiarism. Also taking
ideas from work by others by paraphrasing them without referring to the source is
considered plagiarism and will be treated as cheating.
Tips for quoting and referencing
Follow these rules:
• Always place a literal quotation between quotation marks and provide an adequate
reference to the source.
• Do not edit or paraphrase other people’s words and present them as your own. If
you are paraphrasing, say where the paraphrasing begins and where it ends and
give the source.
• Never present other people’s ideas as your own, even if you are presenting them
in your own words.
Tip 1: Take the online course on “References and citations” offered by the
University Library (UB). You can find it on the website of the UB under “Courses
and training”
(http://www.eur.nl/ub_informatievaardigheden/ul_instruction/verwijzen_en_citeren/).
You have free access and you can do the course whenever you like.
Tip 2: Take other Information literacy courses offered on the UB website. They help
you to acquire practical and useful strategies and techniques for the searching and
processing of scientific information, digital or otherwise.
Tip 3: While searching and writing, keep a record of all the steps you take. Also
save the results of your literature searches and all relevant bibliographic information
in a document or database program. Software such as RefWorks (see
www.refworks.com) can be helpful in this process.
Cheating
Plagiarism is only one form of cheating. Obviously other types of cheating such as
making up data or manipulating data are not allowed either. All cases of cheating
will be reported to the Examination Board. The sanction for students caught
cheating is generally that your participation in this course will be declared invalid
and that you will thus fail the course.
Be aware that each individual student is responsible for all of the team’s work
(assignments and Bachelor Thesis), not only for their “own” part. Therefore, it is
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your task as a team member to check each piece of information and each argument
mentioned in the team’s documents with the team member that first produced
(calculated, wrote, etc.) it. Or, in other words, it is recommended to establish an
“audit trail”.
Prerequisites
You must have successfully completed all courses of the first year of the BA or IBA
programme or you must be a pre-master student.
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In this course it is assumed that you have successfully completed the 2 year
course Statistische Methoden en Technieken (SMT) in the BA program or the
Applied Business Methods course in the IBA program. Regrettably pre-master
students have not yet completed one of these courses when they enter this course.
Pre-master students must, at a minimum, fully understand the contents of Chapter 3
(Concepten) of the book Statistisch onderzoek met SPSS for Windows (Van Dalen
& De Leede) or the contents of Chapter 11 (Introduction to hypothesis testing) of
the book Managerial statistics (Keller), in order to be able to begin this course.
Enrolment in Themes
In this course you work in a team of 3 students. The team is enrolled in a “Theme”,
a research topic offered by an instructor. The instructor has selected a hypothesis,
i.e., a claim about the influence of a variable on another variable. Your project in
this course is writing a critical evaluation of the empirical evidence regarding that
hypothesis. The instructor of the Theme will be the instructor who provides you with
feedback on your assignments.
The enrolment procedure is explained on the SIN-channel of this course.
IBA: BAD10 Research Training + Bachelor Thesis
A kick-off session will take place on Friday, 15 November, 2013 (for BA students);
on Monday, 18 November, 2013 (for IBA students); and on Monday, 6 January,
2014 (for exchange students, both BA and IBA). Attendance at this session is
mandatory as during this session all necessary up-to-date information that students
enrolling in this course should know will be presented. By enrolling in this course
you declare that you are aware of all information that was presented during this
meeting.
Grading
The course will be concluded with a report for grading (“Bachelor Thesis”).
Instructors will fill out an Assessment Protocol for each thesis, will formulate a grade
proposal, and will forward this to the course coordinators. The course coordinators
award the grades for this course after consulting the instructor. You will pass the
course if your grade is 5.5 or higher.
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Schedule for International Business Administration (IBA) students
There are five plenary lectures:

Monday, 18 November, 2013, 15.00-16.45 hrs, CT-1.
Kick-off lecture
For exchange students, a kick-off lecture is scheduled on Monday, 6 January, 2014,
15:00-16:45 hrs, CB-5.

Thursday, 21 November, 2013, 13.00-14.45 hrs, LB-097.
Principles of inferential statistics
This lecture covers the statistical principles that are assumed to be known and
understood when you begin the Research Training & Bachelor Thesis course.
This lecture is important for pre-master students and for students who have not yet
successfully completed the Applied business methods course.

Wednesday, 8 January, 2014, 12.00-13.45 hrs, CB-1.
Critical evaluation of a research report
This lecture covers the skills needed for successfully completing (and practiced in)
Assignments 1 and 2 of the course.

Wednesday, 12 February, 2014, 13.00-14.45 hrs, CT-1.
Critical synthesis of results of multiple studies (“meta-analysis”)
This lecture covers the skills needed for successfully completing (and practiced in)
Assignments 3 and 4 (as well as Assignments 7 and 8) of the course.

Wednesday, 9 April, 2014, 13.00-14.45 hrs, LB-097.
Designing and conducting your own study
This lecture covers the skills needed for successfully completing (and practiced in)
Assignments 5 and 6 of the course.
Schedule deadlines and feedback sessions
Assignment
Week
Deadline
Pre-assignment
3
13 January, 8AM
Assignment 1
4
20 January, 8AM
Assignment 2
6
3 February, 8AM
Assignment 3
8
17 February, 8AM
Assignment 4
10
3 March, 8AM
Assignment 5
16
14 April, 8AM
Assignment 6
18
28 April, 8AM
Assignment 7
20
12 May, 8AM
Assignment 8
22
26 May, 8AM
Deadline final report: 6 June, 8AM.
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Feedback session
22 January
5 February
19 February
5 March
16 April
30 April
14 May
28 May
Team work
The learning objectives of the Research Training course are individual, but you will
design and conduct your research and write your report in a team of three students.
Your success will depend to a large extent on the qualities (both in terms of
academic and social skills as well as in terms of personality) of your teammates.
This is why we strongly advise you

To compose your three-person team before enrolment!

To spend considerable time, from the outset of this course, on discussing
o Each team member’s level of ambition and potential differences
between team members in this respect.
o Whether there are circumstances which might hinder a team
member to fully participate in the team’s work.
o How you will organize your work.

To meet very frequently as a team.

To keep records of your discussions and decisions.

To openly discuss difficulties and to spend sufficient effort to find
remedies.

To report unresolved difficulties in team-work immediately to your
instructor.
Pre-assignment on team-work
The deliverable of this assignment is a document in which you specify your working
arrangements as a team. You must specify in this document any activity by any
team member during the course that might hinder full participation in the team’s
work (i.e., any activity that might hinder a team member to contribute about 5 full
days of work to the completion of an assignment in this course and/or to attend a
team meeting and/or to attend a meeting with an instructor) and how this is solved.
Attach the schedule of team meetings that has been agreed.
Note 1: Note that you are enrolled in a full-time day program and that it is possible
to do all work that is required for this course in office hours on times in which no
other lectures or activities are scheduled. Only personal circumstances are
legitimate reasons for absence, for limited availability for team-work, or for not
adhering to the deadline for submission of an assignment.
Note 2: By handing in this pre- assignment, you declare as a team that you know
the contents of Note 1 and that you have verified that you can meet these
requirements as a team (of which your schedule of team meetings is evidence).
The aim of this pre-assignment is for you as a team to lay a foundation for good
team-work during the course. Your working arrangements must be adequate to
achieve your ambitions and must be made explicit to your instructor.
Deadline: Pre-assignment, i.e., 13 January, 2014 (IBA), or 15 January, 2014 (BA).
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Instructions for the pre-assignment on teamwork

Meet as a team and discuss your individual interests and experience, if any, in
the area of the Theme.

Discuss your ambitions, both individually and as a team. Do you want to “just
pass” this course, or do you want to achieve a high grade? Compare ambitions
between team members and discuss implications of differences.

Discuss the schedule of this course and its two-week cycle. One cycle consists
of 10 workdays. You must submit your assignment not later than 1pm on Day 8
of this cycle and you will get feedback on Day 10 of this cycle, after which you
will work on the next assignment in the next two weeks. Each of you must be
able to spend about 5 full days per cycle on this course. You must schedule
both your individual work (reading, writing, etc.) and team meetings in such a
way that your team functions adequately. Explore any potential obstacle to your
team’s work, such as structural obligations (e.g., paid work, voluntary work,
membership of associations, family duties, etc.) and foreseeable absences.
You are enrolled in a full-time day program in which none of these potential
reasons for absence or for limited availability for teamwork are legitimate. That
is why you must arrange team work in such a way that no one (team mates or
instructor) experiences any hinder of such activities.

Decide about details such as:
o How frequently you will meet in one cycle. (We advise you to have at
least two meetings, one in which the assignment is discussed and a
work plan is agreed on, and one in which team consensus is achieved
on the texts that you will hand in to your instructor. Very likely you will
need more meetings.)
o How team meetings will be scheduled. Decide on fixed dates and
times such as a meeting on Day 1 (or on Day 10, i.e., directly after the
meeting with your instructor) to discuss the next assignment and to
agree on a work plan, and on Day 7 to discuss the text you are going
to submit by Day 8.
o Where you will meet, e.g. in the university or at a team member’s
home.
o How you will keep in touch with each other. Exchange mobile
telephone numbers, email addresses, times that should or should not
be used when contacting each other (e.g., a time in the evening after
which no telephone contact must be made; a time in the morning
before which no such contact should be made; a similar arrangement
about weekends).
o Whether one of you will be in charge of arranging meetings or
changing times and places.
o Etc.

Write a report of this meeting, in which you explicitly formulate each decision
that you have made (i.e., regarding the team’s ambition, schedules for
meetings, etc.) and their implications for individual team members in such a
way that you can use it as a reference for the duration of the course.
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General instructions for each assignment and for the Bachelor Thesis
 Submit each assignment on the Assignments page of the blackboard site of your
Theme.
 Submit each assignment as an MS-Word or PDF document.
 Title each assignment according to group number and assignment number using
the following format: team1_assignment1.doc or team1_assignment1.pdf.
 Add to each assignment a separate front page with the following information:
o Assignment number
o Your team number
o The names of all team members and the hours spent per person on
the assignment
o Date of submission
o The following disclaimer: “This document is written by [name 1],
[name 2], and [name 3], who declare that each individual takes
responsibility for the full contents of the whole document. We
declare that the text and the work presented in this document is
original and that no sources other than mentioned in the text
and its references have been used in creating it. RSM is only
responsible for supervision of completion of the work but not
for the contents.”
 Always number the pages
 Always use font size 12, line spacing 1.5
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Supply Chain Management
Course name:
Course code:
Course load:
Term:
Coordinator:
Lecturers:
Course structure:
Course schedule:
Course Email ID:
(BAD13)
Supply Chain Management
BAD13
5 ECTS
Trimester 3
Prof. Marco Bijvank
Prof. Marco Bijvank
Plenary lectures, Exercise lectures, Case assignments (individual), Final exam (multiple choice and open questions)
Plenary lectures on Tuesdays from 13:00-14:45 (week 14-19,
week 21-23) and Friday May 16 (week 20) from 13:00-14:45
Exercise lectures on Thursday April 10 (week 15) and Thursday
May 1 (week 18) from 9:00-10:45
Case feedback sessions on Wednesday May 7 (week 19) and
on Wednesday June 4 (week 23) from 12:00-12:45
scm-iba@rsm.nl
Course Overview
Subject and relevance
Companies have over time specialized in a very limited number of business activities which they consider to be their core business. By doing so, they have been able
to greatly increase their expertise, innovative capabilities and process efficiency.
Companies have subsequently located their operations in regions that are most
suitable in terms of natural resources, labour (either cheap or high grade), sales
markets etc. As a consequence, a long chain of companies is involved in the manufacture of products. These companies have limited insight into each other’s operations, and are often dispersed around the world. Such a situation requires that the
chain of companies is effectively managed otherwise processes would falter, customers would have to be disappointed, and costs would surge. Therefore, supply
chain management is vital to companies that operate in such chains. Proper planning and managing of the supply chain can make the difference between a successful business and an outright failure.
Progress in information technology has contributed to both the increasing need and
opportunities for improved supply chain management. With IT, companies in a supply chain can be connected in real-time, which allows for efficient and effective
sharing of information.
The course program presents cases of real-world situations calling for appropriate
state-of-the-art models and solution methods for the design, planning, control and
improvement of supply chain operations.
The course Supply Chain Management builds on the knowledge obtained in the
course Operations Management offered in Bachelor 1.
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Learning Goals
In this course students are not only encouraged to acquire the necessary
knowledge, but also to develop a critical attitude to the position of firms in relation to
various strategic and operational choices related to the supply chain.
The course attempts to:

make you conversant in the language of supply chain management;

allow you to see the role of supply chain management in the overall strategy
and performance of the firm by providing a conceptual, strategic view of supply
chain design and operations;

enhance your critical thinking, not only in the area supply chain management
but also as a future general manager;

provide you with qualitative and quantitative tools to identify, analyze, and
manage basic supply chain management issues.
At the end of the course the student should be able to:

identify and use the main concepts and terminology in the domain of supply
chain management;

select and use the appropriate instruments and tools to construct a supply
chain management solution for a given situation;

identify and describe the needed design features of the supply chain;

recognize and use the different inventory replenishment strategies to control
inventory levels;

clarify and leverage the value of information sharing as assisted by information
technology for the integrated supply chain;

describe and choose the correct purchasing and sourcing strategy dependent
on the features of a supply chain;

design the physical distribution in a supply chain and adopt the transportation
accordingly;

identify the different (strategic) constructs for parties of the supply chain to
collaborate, and to discuss and mitigate the accompanying risks;

analyze cases of real world situations and develop suitable supply chain management solutions.
Course Information
Pre-requisites
Before taking this course it is strongly recommended that you have a firm grasp on
the following concepts:

The fundamentals of Operations Management;

Quantitative Methods & Techniques: Statistics

Setting up a strategic business plan;

Some knowledge of Marketing, Information and Organizational management.
Course Workload
Contact hours for 10 plenary lectures
Contact hours for 2 exercise lectures
Contact hours for the case feedback sessions
25
20 hours
4 hours
2 hours
Case assignments (2 times 12 hours)
Self-study
Total course load
24 hours
90 hours
140 hours
Teaching Methods
The course consists of 10 two-hour plenary sessions for lectures, 2 two-hour sessions to practice numerical exercises, and 2 one-hour sessions for feedback on the
case assignments. The main objective of the lectures is to give you directions,
guidelines and context for preparation and study. This objective will be achieved by
explaining concepts, giving you industry examples, and in-class practice questions.
The material covered in these sessions will also be tested on the exam.
Two Written Case Assignments
There are two written case based assignments. The average grade over the two
case assignments counts for 25% of the course grade. For the grading of these
cases and the exact weights of the case grades, please refer to the section “Assessment and Examinations” below.
For each case assignment you need to answer a number of questions regarding the
corresponding case and possibly some additional readings. Each assignment
needs to be submitted electronically before its deadline, which is announced in the
schedule below.
Although you are encouraged to work with a study group in discussing and completing the assignments, the reports need to be submitted individually. Duplicated
and/or group work will be considered as a case of fraud and/or plagiarism, and it will
be reported to the Examination Board. According to article 1.2 of the Rules and
Guidelines 2013-2014, fraud is defined as: “the action or negligence of a student as
a result of which it is impossible, entirely or in part, to form a correct judgment concerning his/her knowledge, insight and skills”. This implies also that the (digital)
providing of a document to a fellow student can be labeled as fraud, if this fellow
student copies the entire document or parts thereof. In other words, students who
distribute information can be punished as well.
Lecture Schedule
All plenary lectures will be delivered on Tuesdays from 13:00-14:45 (week 14-19,
week 21-23) with an exception in week 20 during which the lecture is scheduled at
Friday May 16 from 13:00-14:45. The exercise lectures will be taught on Thursday
April 10 (week 15) from 9:00-10:45 and Thursday May 1 (week 18) from 15:0016:45. The case feedback sessions will be delivered on Wednesday May 7 (week
19) and on Wednesday June 4 (week 23) from 12:00-12:45. The PowerPoint slides
of the lectures will be published on the Blackboard site of this course. This is a
tentative course schedule. Any changes will be announced on Blackboard.
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Week
Lecturers
14
Bijvank
15
15
Bijvank
Bijvank
16
Bijvank
17
18
Bijvank
Bijvank
18
19
19
Bijvank
Bijvank
Bijvank
20
Bijvank
21
22
Bijvank
Bijvank
23
Bijvank
23
Bijvank
Topic
Course information
Introduction to SCM
Supply chain integration
Inventory management and risk pooling
Exercise Lecture
Assignment I: Case 1 – consult Blackboard for details
Deadline: Monday April 21 (week 17) at 8:00 am
Network planning
Facility logistics
The value of information
Supply contracts
Strategic alliances
Exercise Lecture
Distribution strategies
Feedback on Case 1
Assignment II: Case 2 – consult Blackboard for details
Deadline: Monday May 19 (week 21) at 8:00 am
Procurement and outsourcing strategies
Global logistics and risk management
Coordinated product & supply chain design
Customer value
Smart pricing
IT and business processes
Technology standards
Feedback on Case 2
Literature
Chapters of book
Course manual
Ch 1
Ch 6
Ch 2
Ch 3
Ch 5
Ch 4
Ch 8
Ch 7
Ch 9
Ch 10
Ch 11
Ch 12
Ch 13
Ch 14
Ch 15
Required Literature

Simchi-Levi, D., Kaminsky, P. and Simchi-Levi, E. (2009), Designing and managing the supply chain, 3rd ed., McGraw-Hill Irwin, ISBN 978-007-127097-7

Additional literature as indicated on Blackboard

Class materials (slides, notes, etc.)
Office Hours

Prof. M. Bijvank: every Tuesday at 17:00-17:45 in office T10-36 (except May
13) or by appointment

Secretariat: Mrs. C. Meesters, office T10-25, Phone: 010-4081719, e-mail:
cmeesters@rsm.nl
Course E-mail Address
For questions regarding the course organization or course content, any of the assignments or the final exam, you can also send an email to: scm-iba@rsm.nl.
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Examination Dates
Final Examination: Tuesday, June 10, 2014 (week 24) from 9:30-12:30 in the Mbuilding.
Re-sit Examination: Tuesday, July 15, 2014 (week 29) from 13:30-16:30 in the Mbuilding.
Registration via Osiris required. You can register from 35 to 7 days before the
examination.
Assessment and Examinations
Grading
Your course grade will be determined by an assessment of your performance on:
1. A written, closed-book exam which counts for 75% of the final grade; and
2. Two written case assignments which the average counts for 25% of the final
grade.
1. The written exam will have 30 multiple choice questions, each with four alternative answers, and eight open-ended questions. All questions that require any calculations will appear in the open-ended questions. The multiple choice questions
make up 65% of the exam grade and each open-ended question can result in 0.30.6 points at most (maximum of 3.5 points in total). During the exam, you may only
use a non-programmable alphanumerical calculator.
You need to score at least a 4.5 for your written exam to receive a grade for this
course.
2. For each of the case-based assignments you will receive a separate grade. The
average over the two cases counts for 25% of your final grade. When failing to hand
in (on time) one or both of the cases, your maximum grade for this course will be
reduced to 8.8 or 7.5 respectively.
There will be no opportunity for a re-sit for the case assignments.
The cases cannot compensate exam grades which are lower than 4.5.
Minimum grade requirement
According to article 5.2, paragraph 4 of the Rules and Guidelines 2013-2014: “If the
examination part is assessed on the basis of more than one examination, no final
grade for the examination part will be calculated if one of the examination grades is
lower than a 4.5. Examinations that can be taken only once per academic year,
most likely practicals such as case reports and team assignments, are exempted
from this rule.” This means that you do not need to receive a 4.5 or higher on the
cases in order to receive a grade for this course, unlike the exam.
Validity of Partial Grades
In accordance with the Teaching and Examination regulations 2013-2014 (article
4.2, paragraph 3): “If an examination component should be tested by more than one
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examination, the term of validity of the partial result shall be limited to the academic
year in which the partial examinations are taken, unless the examiner determines
otherwise”. In other words, all partial grades of this course are only valid for the
current academic year 2013-2014, and previous results for the case assignments
and written examinations are no longer valid.
Students Retaking the Course
Students retaking the course must complete the assignments and exams as they
are required for the current academic year. The examination for re-takers is thus
based on the content and conditions that apply to the current academic year (20132014).
Examination Perusal
The date, time and place of the perusal will be announced when the grades are
published.
RSM Student Representation
If you as a student have any comment about the quality of your courses, be it positive or negative, please send an email to the corresponding representative or approach him or her personally after the lecture. RSM SR email: feedbackIBA@rsmsr.nl
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Sustainable RSM Student Committee
M AKING SUSTAINABILITY P ERSONAL
Sustainable RSM Student Committee is a group of motivated students actively working
towards a more sustainable campus.
Our mission is to create awareness and action among RSM’s students and faculty staff
about environmental and social issues in and related to our business school.
This year 27 students from over 13 different nationalities are active within our five
project groups. We are a flat organisation that encourages members of the different
project groups to share ideas and experiences, and to discuss important changes in the
student committee with all members. We thrive on our member’s motivation to have a
personal impact, and to inspire others to do likewise. Members engage in their projects’ work as well as monthly active member events and general meetings.
CURRENT PROJECT GROUPS ARE:
• Flyer Initiative: aims at discourage the use of flyers on campus.
• Marketing: supports our promotional and communicational efforts of sustainability
on campus.
• Events: organises guest lectures, field trips to sustainable business operations, and
events such as Earth Day and Sustainability Day.
• Sustainable Consulting: offers advice to organisations on how to behave in a more
ethical, responsible and sustainable way and on research or promotional matters.
• Reducing Plastic/Paper Cups: encourages all the on-campus restaurants and cafés
to reduce their usage of plastic or paper cups and promotes re-usable thermo mugs
and water bottles.
JOIN US, MAKE AN IMPACT.
• meet students with similar interest in sustainability and business.
• interact directly with other students and all other RSM stakeholders such as professors and guest lecturers.
• practice your business skills.
• help RSM set the example for other business schools in terms of sustainability.
UPCOMING: Recruitment for next year’s board in May 2014!
Contact us at sustainablersm@gmail.com
Website: sustainable.rsm.nl (the student committee tab)
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WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO
NEXT YEAR?
Ready for a full-time committee?
STAR Board
As a board member you will have the unique opportunity of being at the top of an organization.
You will supervise different committees, acquire leadership skills, develop a strategy and learn
how to achieve your goals.
Erasmus Consultancy Project (ECP)
ECP is a project which offers companies tailor-made research and consultancy services in an
emerging market. In previous years, ECP has completed projects in countries such as South Korea,
Mexico, India, Vietnam, Chile and Brazil.
Erasmus Recruitment Days (ERD)
The ERD is the largest on campus recruitment event in the Benelux. The ERD Committee is responsible for the complete organization. Experience teamwork at the next level during the organization of this two-week event!
Not ready for a full-time committee? You can also apply for the Eurotrip; a part-time committee.
Want to know more?
Join our recruitment drink for Board and ECP on April 22 nd and for ERD on April 17th,
go to our website rsmstar.nl/recruitment, send an email to recruitment@rsmstar.nl or
come by our office at T4-53 for a coffee.
Application will open April 7th and the deadline is April 27th.
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