International Business and Sustainability MSc

Compulsory

• International Business Strategy

  This module communicates the forces that shape the operating environments of organisations, nationally and internationally. Upon completing this module, students will be able to systematically apply business management theories, concepts and techniques to central international business activities such as foreign entry.

• Sustainable Development Practice and Policies

  This module will equip students with the practical skills, tools and the common vocabulary to work in sustainable businesses, large international organisations and think-tanks. Effective decision-making relies heavily on evidence. The aim of this module is to train students in the art of synthesising evidence from multiple sources as well as planning, managing and evaluating the impact of projects. This module will introduce students to the common biases in decision-making and ways to address them in real-life settings. Methods for evidence generation (such as randomised control trials), evidence synthesis and evidence evaluation will be taught with practical examples from different sectors. The use of evidence in large intergovernmental processes will also be explained. The tools showcased in this module will significantly enhance the employability of students.

• International Business Ethics and Corporate Governance

  This module focuses on business ethics, sustainability and corporate governance in internationally operating organisations. These areas are addressed from the perspective of the dual ‘business’ models of the shareholder and the stakeholder approaches. The broader societal impacts of business activities are discussed by using concepts from moral philosophy, CSR, sustainability and corporate governance. 

• Environment and Sustainability for Business

  The aim of this module is to enable students to understand sustainability from an environmental governance perspective for businesses. The module will help students develop a critical understanding about managing our natural resources. The focus will be on sustainable development goals under the five thematic areas as followed by the United Nations Environment Programme [UNEP] (air, lands and soils, biodiversity, freshwater, oceans and marine systems). The DPSIR framework and the Planetary Boundaries concept will be introduced. The role of intergovernmental bodies such as the IPCC, IPBES and CBD will be explored. The business risks posed by climate change and biodiversity loss will be discussed. The mechanisms adopted by businesses to mitigate biodiversity loss will be critically analysed.

• Understanding Business and Management Research

  This module facilitates a comprehensive grasp of research methods in the accounting field. The provided learning materials establish a strong foundation for the dissertation project in MG5636.

• Dissertation - International Business and Sustainability MSc

Optional

• Developing Sustainable Societies through Behaviour Change
• Climate Politics

  This module aims to enable students to attain a comprehensive understanding of key concepts and theories in the politics and political economy of climate change. It will provide students with resources to assist them in making informed judgments on a range of questions and debates.  

• MG5633 - Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management

  Start up. Scale smart.

  Evaluate opportunities, craft value propositions, validate with customers, and plan for financing and growth. Apply lean startup thinking to tech, social and family businesses.

  You’ll practise: opportunity assessment, MVP/experimentation, unit economics, pitching, growth playbooks.

  Employability edge: Founder, Early stage Operator, Product/Marketing in startups, SME Consultant.

• SO5AAA - Global Migration and Business

  This course aims to equip students with an understanding of the key concepts in global migration including the causes and consequences of migration, national and international responses to migration and the diversity of migrant flows within a global context, using cases from both Global North and Global South contexts. Students will critically evaluate the theoretical perspectives that inform the sociology of migration alongside the inter-disciplinary aspects of research and scholarship in Migration Studies.

  Students will understand how and why migration has changed, the governance of migration alongside the consequences and experiences of policy, understanding of dangerous migrant routes including the growth in irregular migration, asylum seekers and refugees, international students’ mobility, the feminisation of migration, high skilled migration, links between migration and racism, and the transnational activities of migrants.

• PP5628 - International Development: Politics and Policy

  This module will analyse the origins of the ‘development’ paradigm, competing theories of different development. trajectories observed globally, and contemporary scholarly perspectives on international development. It will examine and assess global and local challenges and policy solutions, drawing on a wide range of country case studies and will review empirical challenges in international development including data, measurement and evaluation methods.

• PP5630 - International Organisations

  The module aims to introduce students to approaches to studying international organisations from theoretical and empirical perspectives. The module will enable students to apply and evaluate the theoretical approaches for understanding international organisations and the role they play and will familiarise students with a range of international organisations. The module will also enable students to assess the advantages and limitations of international organisations in influencing public policies.

• International Trade

  This module covers the importance of overseas trade on the global and national economies. It introduces common barriers to trade, regional trading arrangements, and the case for and against the concept of free (unrestricted) trade.

• MG5606 - Global Business and Investments
  The effect of globalisation on international business.