Detailed Information
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.
Semester 2
Level 3
Lectures: Fridays, 9:00 - 11:00 (Quinn School of Business, Room 118)
No Tutorials.
If you are taking this module for credit, please take note of the dates below:
Term dates for revision: Saturday, 28 April - Sunday, 6 May
Term dates for exams: Tuesday, 8 May – Saturday, 19 May
Open Learning Fee (audit only) €350 per module
Open Learning Fee (with assessment) €500 per 5 credit module
Upgrading from audit to credit: You may upgrade from being an audit student to a credit student up to three weeks into term. Please note, however, that you can't change back to being an audit student - if you decide not to complete the assignments and/or sit the exams, this will appear on your academic record.
Concessions
There are no concessions available for Open Learning modules.
Refunds
Refunds may in some instances be available for extenuating circumstances, such as serious illness, within two weeks of the start of the module. Requests for refunds must be submitted in writing, with supporting documents where appropriate.
Assoc. Prof Maeve Houlihan