Course content

- Overview: Export/import & the Sunnmøre region/Norway
- Export/Import company and supply network structure, organizational structure, agreements & business relationships
- Outsourcing, offshoring and changing inter-firm borderlines in globalized supply networks
- Trading and logistics in end-to-end chains: Markets, relations and hierarchy
- Organizing for export and import operations: Preliminary considerations in exporting
Export procedures; barriers to exporting; determinants of export performance; exporter/importer behavior; usefulness of export information sources; exporting problems & barriers; technology & export behavior; ethical issues in export/import; export propensity, intensity & firm performance; overview of export/import research/literature in the past five decades
- Exporting: Sales documentation
- Other export documentation
- Import: Preliminary considerations
- Import procedures
- Import: Purchase documentation
- Import: Process and documentation

Learning outcome

Knowledge:
The student shall also develop network thinking in regards to export. This includes the role of import in relation to export, including the role of business relationships with customers, suppliers, supporting actors such as consultants, financial institutions, logistics service providers.

Students should have appreciation of the role of export/import process in the globalised world market.

Students should have a broad overview of the export-import process and its related literature and research streams.

Skills:
The student should be able to create export and import plans

Competence:
The student shall devleop understanding of customer value through export and import from a network perspective.

The student shall understand the role of export and import at a societal level

Learning methods and activities

Teaching methods:
Seminars. Reports and essays. Excursion.

Mandatory assignment:
- Two compulsory group assignments must be approved before written exam.
One of the assignment which is based on a chosen company's export/import operations is to be brought to the exam and delivered together with the exam papers.

Passed mandatory exercises are valid for later continuation exams.

Compulsory assignments

• Mandatory assignment

Recommended previous knowledge

Marketing  and business administration/management in general

Required previous knowledge

None

Course materials

Bade, D. L. : Export/Import procedures and documentation, American Management Association AMACOM (2015), ISBN: 978-0-8144-3475-8.

A collection of research articles/papers in addition to the textbook

Credit reductions