King's College London

Consumer behavior is an exciting, dynamic, and growing field of marketing that draws on different social science disciplines (i.e., psychology, economics, anthropology, and sociology). The field uses these perspectives to examine individual and collective consumption behaviors in various cultural, social, economic, and environmental settings. This course examines how and why consumers think, feel, and behave the way they do and what this means for marketing products, services, ideas, and experiences.

This course introduces the basic concepts and tools of Statistical Mechanics at equilibrium. Lectures provide an overview of the powerful methods used to describe systems with a large number of degrees of freedom, with many different examples. Students learn how to build an intuitive and physical understanding of technical and mathematical aspects developed in this course.

The course has two sections, with the first section focusing on urbanization, urban form and structure, urban biodiversity and conservation, and the second section focusing on urban hydrology, urban rivers, urban river restoration and both terrestrial and aquatic pollution.  The lecture series ends with a field trip to an urban river site in London.

This course introduces students to theories and practices of human resource management (HRM). Emphasis is placed on understanding how HRM as a function relates to strategic business decision-making. In addition, the course discusses the design of key high-performance and high-commitment HR practices. The course stimulates critical thinking about the roles that alternative HRM strategies and practices can play in contributing to positive employee and organizational outcomes.

This course analyses the basic concepts associated with competing theoretical perspectives on the nature of the firm and analysis of market coordination. It develops an awareness of how recent advances in the theory of Industrial Organization relate to previously dominant perspectives in the field. Students develop an understanding of how different approaches to Industrial Organization have been applied at the level of specific firms, particular industries, and with regard to concrete policy initiatives. Students learn to outline, evaluate, and illustrate the contributions of transaction cost economics, resource-based theories of the firm, and evolutionary approaches to Industrial Organization; evaluate and illustrate accounts of the market order which highlight the role of social rules, relationships, and conventions in the functioning of competitive processes; and demonstrate the policy relevance of recent theoretical advances in Industrial Organization by evaluating the promotion of quasi-market structures in sectors such as broadcasting.