GRA 6342 International Business Environment - RESIT EXAMINATION
GRA 6342 International Business Environment - RESIT EXAMINATION
This course belongs to major in International Business and is taught for the last time autumn 2015.
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The purpose of this course is to give a balanced and empirical perspective on the topic of globalization focusing on the longer-term underlying processes of global economic change in which currents events can be better understood. One aim of the course is to demonstrate the fundamentally relational nature of globalization processes by focusing explicitly on global production networks (GPN) and global innovation networks (GIN) and to emphasize the power-laden dynamics of the interactions between companies, political systems, consumers, labour and civil society organizations and their geography highlighting both the institutional and spatial context of globalization. Another aim is to give insights into new empirical developments and to incorporate new ideas on the shaping and reshaping of production, distribution and consumption in the global economy. The third aim is to provide arguments about the impacts of globalization processes on people, places and the environment and the more ethical aspects of globalization processes. In general this course will provide students with dynamic perspectives on how the global economy works and what its effect are. There will be a special focus on emerging economies, especially China.
The course covers 4 main topics:
- The shifting countours of the global economy
- How the actors, institutions and processes that make the global economy interact to produce global production networks
- Case studies of different sectors to illustrate ways in which these processes actually operate
- Winning and losing in the global economy and how nations and regions are able to capture value in global networks
A central learning element of the course is the term paper project which will be conducted in small groups. The term paper should preferably be conducted by groups of three students, but we also allow individual assignments.
Please note that while attendance is not compulsory in all courses, it is the student’s own responsibility to obtain any information provided in class that is not included on It's learning or text book.
All courses in the Masters programme will assume that students have fulfilled the admission requirements for the programme. In addition, courses in second, third and/or fourth semester can have specific prerequisites and will assume that students have followed normal study progression. For double degree and exchange students, please note that equivalent courses are accepted.
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Exam category: Submission Form of assessment: Written submission Weight: 100 Grouping: Individual Duration: 1 Semester(s) Exam code: GRA63421 Grading scale: ECTS Resit: Examination every semester |
A course of 1 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of 26-30 hours. Therefore a course of 6 ECTS credits corresponds to a workload of at least 160 hours.