Bachelor
2021/2022
Digital infrastructures for business
Type:
Compulsory course
Area of studies:
Business Informatics
Delivered by:
Bachelor's Programme in Digital Product Management
Where:
Graduate School of Business
When:
2 year, 2 module
Mode of studies:
offline
Open to:
students of one campus
Instructors:
Mikhail Milenov Georgiev
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
3
Contact hours:
36
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The subject of internet if fostering innovations in business gives a base concept of analysis and understanding of networks and their architecture. The focus mostly will be done on theoretical instruments which influence on business, government and social life. Concepts of networks are explained deeply as well as their unit-economy, services they include and access to communication capacities. Students must have their critical minds to topics provided and evaluate opportunities and risks of these models as seen by various groups of people. The course considers the issues and challenges faced by decision makers in government, businesses and infrastructure provider organisations as innovation players.. This includes issues of national and international standards, laws and regulation. The course also addresses these issues as they relate to individual users of digital services. This course explains and gives understanding on the internet as our most general and fundamental innovation in fostering world for communication.
Learning Objectives
- introducing the concepts of base innovation concepts of infrastructures and their core technologies
- considering how internet innovations are established and evolved, their technical architecture
- explanation of the opportunities and risks in case of current technical innovations
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Description of an infrastructure concept and its relation to digital systems and services
- Identification and application theories and models to understand the evolution of digital infrastructures and their roles in fostering innovation
Course Contents
- Infrastructures: conceptual beginnings
- Internet foundations
- Emergent design of the internet
- Layered model
- The Transaction Cost perspective, Digital goods’ characteristics
- Introduction to Economic and institutional perspectives on digital infrastructures
Assessment Elements
- ExamДля получения удовлетворительной оценки за дисциплину, экзамен должен быть написан на удовлетворительную оценку и выше. При получении неудовлетворительной оценки за экзамен, его необходимо пересдать, даже если были накоплены баллы, и общая оценка за дисциплину получилась удовлетворительной..
- Classwork Essays
- Home Assignments
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Laudon, K. C., & Laudon, J. P. (2012). Management information systems : managing the digital firm. Slovenia, Europe: Prentice Hall. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.BEEDD30B
- Zittrain, J. (2008). The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It. New Haven [Conn.]: Yale University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=278457
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Constantinides, P. (2012). Perspectives and Implications for the Development of Information Infrastructures. Hershey, PA: IGI Global. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=450407