College of Commerce and Economics

Commerce & Economics - Postgraduate Catalogue Master of Business Administration (MBA)

Credits Required 36 Core Requirements 24 Elective Courses 12

Degree Plan

Course Code
ACCT 6111 POMG 6712 MRKT 6631 ECON 6211 MNGT 6520 FINA 6322 INFS 6411 MNGT 6521 Elective

Course Title
Accounting for Managers Operations Management Marketing Strategy Managerial Economics Organizational Behavior Managerial Finance Management Information Systems Strategic Management 12 Credits

Credit
3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 12

Category Core Elective

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Accounting ACCT 6121 ACCT 6131 ACCT 6141 ACCT 6151 ACCT 6161 ACCT 6171 Economics ECON 6351 ECON 6352 ECON 6353 ECON 6354 ECON 6355 Finance FINA 6361 FINA 6362 FINA 6363 FINA 6364

Electives

Financial Reporting and Analysis Strategic Management Accounting Contemporary Issues in Accounting Financial and Management Control Systems International Accounting Independent Study in Accounting Macroeconomics Development Finance Special Topics in Economics International Money and Finance Independent Study in Economics Multinational Financial Management Security Analysis and Portfolio Management Commercial Bank Management Capital Structure and Budgeting

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FINA 6365 FINA 6366 FINA 6371 Marketing MRKT 6641 MRKT 6651 MRKT 6652 MRKT 6661 MRKT 6662 MRKT 6671 Management MNGT 6512 MNGT 6513 MNGT 6522 MNGT 6523 MNGT6516 MNGT6517 MNGT6518 MNGT 6519 MNGT 6514 MNGT 6571 Strategic Finance Current Issues in Finance Independent Study in Finance Consumer Behavior Strategic Internet Marketing Services Marketing Global Marketing Marketing Research Independent Study in Marketing Human Resource Management Entrepreneurship Effective Leadership Managerial Decision Making Organizational Development and Change Managing Entrepreneurial Growth Management and Society International Business Management Current Issues in Management Independent Study in Management

Management Information Systems INFS 6451 IT Project Management INFS 6461 E-Commerce - Managerial Perspective INFS 6462 IT Infrastructure INFS 6463 Knowledge Management Systems INFS 6471 Independent Study in Information Systems Operations Management POMG 6721 Total Quality Management POMG 6722 Supply Chain Management POMG 6723 Project Management POMG 6724 Data Processing and Analysis POMG 6725 Managing Service Operations POMG 6771 Independent Study in Operations Management

Research Interests
Accounting 1- Financial Accounting: Accounting practices, including financial disclosure.

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International Financial Reporting Standards. Internet financial reporting. Corporate governance practices. Corporate social responsibility practices. 2- Management Accounting: Management accounting systems, including planning and control systems. Performance management and measurement. Strategic, short and long-term decision making techniques. Value-added management accounting techniques or systems. Target costing and Just-in-time in organizational setting. 3- Auditing: Internal practices, including audit committees. External practices. Management: Arab Management and the Omanization process Gender Issues Organizational citizenship behavior International and Human Resource Management. Management of diversity and related multicultural (crosss cultural) issues. Leadership Patronage behaviour Cross- cultural studies Country of origin effects on product choice Impact of quality of supervisor-employee relationships on employee attitudes and performance Professional/Occupational commitment and extra-role behaviors Qualitative studies of leadership and management Effects of emotions on managerial decision making. Emotions in organizations. Cross-cultural negotiations. Entrepreneurship Policy Entrepreneurial Environments Factors and Processes Influencing New Venture Creation SME challenges Small Business Management Managerial judgment and decision making. Information Systems: Information Systems Audit and Control IT/IS Strategy IT Project Management ICT adoption in SMEs

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IT Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity IT Outsourcing Green Information Technology/Green Information Systems Pervasive Computing Social Media/Networking Tools and Technologies E-government/m-government Web Usability, Security and Accessibility Internet & Network Security Web-Application Development Web Tools & Technologies Portal Development Mobile commerce Technology adoption and dissemination Business Process Re-engineering Business Process Management Software Quality Assurance Inter-organizational systems (IOS) Knowledge Management Systems Decision Support Systems Learning Management Systems Database design and development Information and Computer education E-Business Marketing: Methodological and measurement issues in marketing Validity and reliability Structural equation modelling Persuasion and advertising effectiveness Cross-cultural considerations in household and group decision making Role of attribute importance in attitudes and purchase behavior Attitude-behavior consistency Status of TQM in the Arab World and productivity gains from TQM Impact of ethnocentric tendencies on consumption Impact of country of origin on consumer attitudes and behavior Information acquisition and advertising effectiveness E-marketing Mobile marketing Social and philanthropic marketing Country-of origin Ethnocentrism and its relation to animosity Country image Fashion studies Branding, brand positioning, and brand equity Heritage marketing

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E-Government and Technology Acceptance Business ethics Economics and Finance: Islamic Economics and Finance Epistemological Problems of Political Economic Theory Economic of intellectual property rights Financing constraints Working capital management Asset liability management Stock price behavior Commodity and equity portfolios Mutual fund Operation Management: Service and Manufacturing Operation. Quality Management. Inventory Management. Logistics and Supply Chain Management. Production Planning. Scheduling and Control Systems Optimization. Performance Evaluation and Analysis. Simulation. Decision Analysis. Energy and Transportation Management. Business Statistics: Multivariate Analysis. Designing and Analysis of Experiments. Regression and Econometrics Analysis. Models Selection and Testing.

Faculty:
Unlike Masters programs offered by other SQU colleges the MBA program is a general program necessitating the use of existing CCE faculty from all departments, in addition to the need for 2 academic faculty positions in the first year and four academic faculty position in the second year. Further to the above, since the MBA program is a three-year (part time) evening program, the faculty assigned to teach the MBA courses will be assigned upon confirmation of course offerings and available expertise at the time.

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