Strategic Retail Management and Innovation Concentration
The aim of the Strategic Retail Management and Innovation Concentration is to equip students with professional retailing knowledge and management and business skills who will become competitive and ethical business leaders and managerial personnel in the retail industry. This concentration addresses the University’s commitment to addressing the needs of society and takes the obligations of talent development for the retail sector. Apart from fundamental retail management knowledge such as brand management and electronic commerce in the retail businesses, students can also pursue up-to-date areas of retail management, such as e-tailing, digital commerce, business analytics, entrepreneurship, among others.
Specific objectives are:
- To enable students to build a solid foundation in understanding the fundamentals of retail management;
- To equip students with necessary theoretical knowledge as well as experience in managing a retail business;
- To provide students with retail management knowledge and practices in selected focused areas to foster retail innovation; and
- To nurture a sense of ethics and social responsibility that prepares students to be competent and global visionary retail management practitioners.
Requirements
Concentration Required Courses | 12 units | |
MKTG3017 Services Marketing | 3 units | |
REMT3005 Strategic Retail Operation Management | 3 units | |
REMT3006 Smart Retailing | 3 units | |
REMT3015 Seminar in Creative Retailing | 3 units | |
Concentration Elective Courses | 9 units | |
BUSI2046 From Insight to Prototype: Generating Opportunities with Market Insights | 3 units | |
BUSI3025 Cross-Cultural and Comparative Management | 3 units | |
BUSI3057 Managing Entrepreneurship Ventures | 3 units | |
BUSI3065 Me, Us and Them: The Human Factor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation | 3 units | |
ECON3007 Industrial Organization and Competitive Strategy | 3 units | |
ECON3087 Understanding the Digital Economy | 3 units | |
ECON3097 Data Visualization for Business Storytelling | 3 units | |
ECON3105 Big Data Analytics with Python | 3 units | |
ISEM3036 Advanced Business Analytics and Data Visualization for Digital Commerce | 3 units | |
ISEM4006 Electronic Commerce | 3 units | |
ISEM4016 Web Site Design and Business Applications | 3 units | |
ISEM4017 Consumer Insight: Online Customer Data Analytics and Machine Learning Approaches | 3 units | |
ISEM4036 Cybersecurity and Data Privacy | 3 units | |
MKTG3005 Marketing Research Methods | 3 units | |
MKTG3006 Global Marketing | 3 units | |
MKTG3007 Consumer Behaviour | 3 units | |
MKTG3015 Socially Responsible Marketing | 3 units | |
MKTG3025 Integrated Marketing Communications | 3 units | |
MKTG3026 Strategic Digital Marketing | 3 units | |
MKTG3047 Big Data Marketing | 3 units | |
MKTG4006 e-CRM | 3 units | |
MKTG4007 Brand Management | 3 units | |
REMT3007 Retail Management Internship | 3 units | |
21 units |