722A53 · 15 credits · Advanced level (A1N) · Företagsekonomi
Strategy - Classic and Contemporary Views
Active · next start HT 2026
100%
passed the latest ordinary exam
EXA2 · 6 Oct 2025 · 5 students
74%
passed the ordinary exams, all sittings over the last 5 years
EXA2 · 23 students
Unusually easy in 2025/26
100% passed the ordinary exam in 2025/26 (5 students), against 75% on average in earlier years (18 students).
Exam
EXA2 Written examination
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Ordinary exams
74% passed · 23 students
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Re-exams
83% passed · 6 students
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- Pass the re-exam: 83% (6 students), compared with 74% (23 students) on the ordinary exam
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Sittings with fewer than 5 students, often credit transfers or special sittings. They are not part of any figure on this page.
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Other modules
Partial exams, hand-ins and labs. They are not part of the figures at the top.
Hand-in or lab
SEM1 Seminars
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Main rounds
100% passed · 36 students
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Later rounds
No sittings with at least 5 students.
Hand-in or lab
PRO1 Projects
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Main rounds
100% passed · 25 students
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Later rounds
No sittings with at least 5 students.
Other module
ESSÄ Essay
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Main rounds
100% passed · 35 students
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Later rounds
No sittings with at least 5 students.
Show small sittings (1)
Sittings with fewer than 5 students, often credit transfers or special sittings. They are not part of any figure on this page.
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About the course
Aim
The aim of the course is to enhance students' capabilities to act and work in contemporary and future organizations. A course ambition is to educate discerning consumers of strategic thought, i.e. students able to reflect upon fads and fashions and achievements of management research and writings.
After completion of the course the students will be expected to
- reproduce central strategic concepts and ideas as well as the development of the field of strategic management
- illustrate and explain differences and similarities between major ways of strategic thinking
- be able to compare and relate thoughts and elements from different schools of strategic thinking
- make use of models and concepts
- differentiate between and select appropriate theories and models for different situations
In addition to this the students will have gained experience of working in culturally/ethnically/nationally diverse teams.
Content
The course contains both classic and contemporary thoughts on strategy. The classic views represent the canon of the field of strategy, i.e. models and concepts that students of strategy are expected to know. In the course, this inevitable heritage of theories and models is complemented with more contemporary ideas on strategy which also serve as a vehicle for challenging some of the classic ideas. The course thus deals with aspects of competitive advantage spanning from companies' internal resources, through the marketplace, to the attention of the final consumer an his/her role in the value creating process.
In the course, the following aspects will be dealt with:
- competition and competitive advantage
- industry analysis
- value creation
- innovation
- resource-based strategy analysis
- dynamic capabilities
- sustainability
- aesthetic and symbolic dimensions of strategy
- Examiner
- Hans Andersson
- Main field of study
- Företagsekonomi