Globalisation and Contemporary Issues in International Business

Module code: SIB7503-B

Module Aims

  1. To provide MSc students with a detailed awareness, knowledge and understanding of current issues affecting international business in various settings and contexts around global markets and supply chains.
  2. To establish a comprehensive understanding of the opportunities and challenges facing firms operating within the particular context of the Single European Market.
  3. To gain a global perspective in the interaction between mature and developing markets by introducing issues related to the interrelationship between IB and sustainable development with a focus on business environments in emerging economies primarily in Africa, but also in other parts of the world. The module also investigates the drivers of foreign direct investment from developed to emerging economies, from emerging to developed economies, and from emerging
    to emerging economies and examines the rationale for outsourcing to emerging economies, and issues connected to technology transfer by multinational corporations.
  4. To consider the effect of issues of sustainable development and problems associated with CSR in emerging economies with particular reference to sub-Saharan Africa.
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