Description:
| Aims: The unit aims:
1. To investigate the relationship between business and the societies within which they operate; exploring the relationships between corporate decision making and the economic, social, and institutional environment.
2. To introduce students to the implications of social and environmental concerns for corporate decision-makers.
3. To provide a framework within which students can explore the inter-relationships and interdependencies of core management disciplines.
Learning Outcomes: On completing this unit students will be able to:
* understand the relationship between the social and economic environment and corporate decision making.
* Understand the implications of social and environmental concerns for corporate decision-makers.
Skills: Intellectual skills
The module is designed to develop analytical approaches to literature and data and independent working practices.
Practical skills
The module is designed to develop:
1. presentational skills through negotiations and presentations.
2. group skills through two group assessments.
Content: International competitiveness, training and education. Modern manufacturing systems transport and the environment. Corporate strategy and the environment. Doing business in China: analyzing the impact of cultural and institutional factors on corporate behaviour and performance - social and environmental concerns. The Single European Market and the EURO and the implications of these developments for corporate strategy within a culturally and institutionally diverse market.
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