BMGT30430 Doing Business in the Global South

Academic Year 2023/2024

In a more globalized world, business and trade increasingly impact on poverty and global development. With a focus on Africa, the module takes account of prevailing business paradigms and explores alternative models and frameworks.

Students will be exposed to personal and up-to-date examples of businesses that have embraced markets in the global south and they will have the opportunity to understand a range of business models such as inclusive business, creating shared value and building sustainable supply chains.

The module explores how enterprises can be profitable and successfully contribute to poverty reduction by including low income communities in the value chain on the demand side as consumers, clients, and/or on the supply side as producers, entrepreneurs or employees. Through a stakeholder framework the module considers complex questions such as business and human rights, and the role of business in creating sustainable development. Students have the opportunity to reflect and debate these choices and their implications from a number of perspectives. Finally, students have the opportunity to consider how one’s personal and professional choices are connected to development.

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Curricular information is subject to change

Learning Outcomes:

As a result of completing this module students should be able to:

1. Recognize and assess the scope and power of business and its impact on social, economic and environmental wellbeing in the global south;

2. Understand and apply key sustainability frameworks and concepts on the potential for working sustainably within the context of the least developed countries;

3. Be aware of one’s own role through personal and professional decision making in relation to social, economic and environmental sustainability;

4. Test concepts and theories through completing a group project, applying the theories for analysis, identify practical challenges and opportunities;

5. Explore and critically assess models of engagement by implementing individual research, reflection and analysis.

Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures

4

Autonomous Student Learning

109

Online Learning

12

Total

125

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations
Learning Requirements:

None

Learning Exclusions:

None

Learning Recommendations:

None


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 
Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Open Book Exam Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade
Assignment: case study analysis Week 12 n/a Graded No

50

Oral Examination: case study Analysis and presentation. Throughout the Trimester n/a Graded No

50


Carry forward of passed components
Not yet recorded
 

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Name Role
Mr Killian Stokes Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
Autumn
     
Lecture Offering 1 Week(s) - Autumn: All Weeks Thurs 15:00 - 16:50

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