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BUSI49815: BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT IN THE PACIFIC RIM (FT)

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Type Tied
Level 4
Credits 15
Availability Not available in 2024/2025
Module Cap
Location Durham
Department Management and Marketing

Prerequisites

  • None.

Corequisites

  • None.

Excluded Combinations of Modules

  • None.

Aims

  • The Pacific Rim poses major opportunities and challenges for Eastern and Western business and management. This module seeks to enable students to gain an advanced understanding of the global positioning, internal macro regional dynamics and national construction of business and management of the Pacific Rim, and how this might change.

Content

  • The global and international context of the Pacific Rim.
  • The socio-economics of the Pacific Rim and East Asian Regional Governance.
  • The development and management of Japanese business networks.
  • South Korean business management, recovery and renewal.
  • Offshore Chinese family business networks.
  • Mainland Chinese business and economic reform.
  • Mainland Chinese organisational management trends and prospects.
  • East-West business interaction.
  • Developing Asia Pacific Business Champions.

Learning Outcomes

Subject-specific Knowledge:

  • Upon successful completion of the module, the students will be able to:
  • contextualise the Pacific Rim both regionally and globally;
  • situate and critically compare the individual role and character of Japanese, South Korean and Chinese business networks;
  • engage the complex problems of championing Pacific Rim business from a managerial viewpoint.

Subject-specific Skills:

  • Upon successful completion of the module, the students will be able to:
  • critically analyse leading core examples of emerging business and management practice.

Key Skills:

  • Written communication; planning, organising and time management; problem solving and analysis; using initiative; computer literacy.

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

  • Learning outcomes will be met through a combination of lectures, groupwork, case studies and discussion, supported by guided reading. The written assignment will test students' understanding of relevant concepts and their ability to apply and interpret what they have learned to the analysis of a particular issue in depth.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

ActivityNumberFrequencyDurationTotalMonitored
Workshops (a combination of lectures, groupwork, case studies and discussion)28Yes
Preparation and Reading122 
Total150 

Summative Assessment

Component: Written AssignmentComponent Weighting: 100%
ElementLength / DurationElement WeightingResit Opportunity
Written Assignment4,000 words maximum100 

Formative Assessment

None.

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