INSTITUTIONAL MARKETING TecnoCampus | Centers attached to Pompeu Fabra University and Business Park

General information

Subject type: Mandatory

Coordinator: Monica Juliana Oviedo León

Trimester: Third term

Credits: 4

Teaching staff:

Alexandra Mason Llorente

Teaching languages

Catalan

The materials can be in Spanish or English.

Skills

Basic skills

B2. That students know how to apply their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional way and possess the skills that are usually demonstrated through the elaboration and defense of arguments and the resolution of problems within their area of study. .
B3. That students have the ability to gather and interpret relevant data (usually within their area of study) to make judgments that include reflection on relevant social, scientific, or ethical issues.
B4. That students can convey information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialized and non-specialized audiences.

Specific skills

E2. Apply the basics of marketing and market research.
E5. Recognize the particularities of marketing activity in sectors of activity with specific characteristics.
E8. Synthesize ideas to make them feasible and profitable business understanding the current market.
E1. Recognize the environment in which the organization operates, the operation of the company and its functional areas and the instruments of analysis.

General competencies

G1. Be able to work in a team, actively participate in tasks and negotiate in the face of dissenting opinions until reaching consensus positions, thus acquiring the ability to learn together with other team members and create new knowledge.
G2. Be able to innovate by developing an open attitude to change and be willing to re-evaluate old mental models that limit thinking.
G3. Integrate the values of social justice, equality between men and women, equal opportunities for all and especially for people with disabilities, so that the studies of Marketing and Digital Communities contribute to training citizens for a a just, democratic society based on a culture of dialogue and peace.

Transversal competences

T1. Communicate properly orally and in writing in the two official languages of Catalonia.
T3. Demonstrate entrepreneurial leadership and leadership skills that build personal confidence and reduce risk aversion.
T5. Develop tasks applying the knowledge acquired with flexibility and creativity and adapting them to new contexts and situations.

Description

This subject serves to know the new models of strategic thinking as well as to contribute practice to apply these strategic models in the real company. The course, based on institutional theory and the theory of dynamic capabilities, aims to be the bridge between strategic theory and practice in the logic of institutional marketing:

Developing and understanding a conception of "long-term business model", together with the idea of "social purpose", this subject explains how to develop the values, principles, beliefs of the company in the long term and with social purpose, and how translate all this into concrete market actions, always guaranteeing the institutional vision in the strategic and operational field simultaneously.

Learning outcomes

Demonstrate long-term strategic and business building skills.
Ability to see the operating environment as a project
Establish and achieve long-term business organization and leadership guidelines
Have tools to facilitate large-scale competition, with a global and international dimension of uncertainty.

Working methodology

Theoretical sessions
MD1.Master class: Expository class sessions based on the teacher's explanation attended by all students enrolled in the subject
MD3. Presentations: Multimedia formats that support face-to-face classes

Guided learning
MD5. Seminars: Face-to-face format in small work groups (between 14 and 40). These are sessions linked to the face-to-face sessions of the subject that allow to offer a practical perspective of the subject and in which the participation of the student is key.
MD6. Debates and forums: Face-to-face or online conversations, according to the objectives that the teacher responsible for the subject pursues.
MD7. Case study: Dynamics that starts from the study of a case, which serves to contextualize the student in a specific situation, the teacher can propose different activities, both individually and in groups, among their students

Autonomous learning
MD10. Research and critical reading of articles. Students start from a working hypothesis that they will develop, following the phases of the research methodology, including the critical reading of articles.

This subject has methodological and digital resources to make possible its continuity in non-contact mode in the case of being necessary for reasons related to the Covid-19. In this way, the achievement of the same knowledge and skills that are specified in this teaching plan will be ensured.

The Tecnocampus will make available to teachers and students the digital tools needed to carry out the course, as well as guides and recommendations that facilitate adaptation to the non-contact mode.

The role of CSR in institutional logic:
- contextualization of CSR in an institutional business framework.
- Corporate social values
- Business CSR models.
Strategic application of CSR in the company.
- Incorporation of social values into the business model
- Development of business strategy based on values.

Topic 4. New segmentation models: segmentation in institutional marketing

Introduction to segmentation profiles in institutional marketing.
Segmentation of value-creating profiles:
- Customer profiles: purchasing roles and degree of value generation
- Strategic allies
Segmentation and value transmitting profiles:
- Stakeholder Segmentation
- Public opinion.

Topic 5. Management and leadership in institutional models:

Corporate Culture:
- Models of corporate culture
- Corporate leadership styles
Formal organizations vs. Informal organizations
Corporate structure and management tools.

Learning activities

AF1. Theoretical sessions
AF2. Seminars
AF3. Work in group
AF4. Individual work
AF5. Personal study

Evaluation system

35% SE4. Final exam

20% SE1. Continuous assessment: Participation in the activities proposed in the classroom

45% Group project:

35% SE2. Project monitoring and final delivery
10% SE3. Exhibition

NOTES:

To pass the subject it will be necessary to obtain a grade equal to or higher than 5 both in the exam section and in the group project section.
In case of suspending the group project, the student will have direct access to the examination of recovery, which in this case, will have a weight of 40% on the total of note of the asignatura.
Both the final exam and the recovery exam will be an individual and face-to-face test.
In the recovery period, only the part corresponding to the final exam can be recovered.

REFERENCES

Basic

Tyrol, J (2017). The economy of the common good. Barcelona: Taurus.

Complementary

SINEK, S. (2011) “Start with why, how great leaders inspire everyone to take action” Penguin Group

Sabine, GH (2003) History of political theory. Madrid: Economic Culture Fund.

Posner, E & Weyl, G. (2018). Radical Markets, uprooting capitalism and democracy for a just society. Princeton University Press.

Rapaille, C. (2014). Move Up; because some cultures are advancing and others are not. Madrid; Ed. Taurus

Mazzucato, M (2018). The value of everything; making and taking in the global economy. London: Allen Lane.

Giner, S. (2013). History of social thought, 13th edition. Madrid: Ariel Social Sciences.

Hofstede, G. (1999). Cultures and organizations; mental software, international cooperation and its importance for survival. Madrid: Alianza Editorial.

5031 - INSTITUTIONAL MARKETING

School of Social and Business Sciences