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BMGT30430

Academic Year 2024/2025

Doing Business in the Global South (BMGT30430)

Subject:
Business Management
College:
Business
School:
Business
Level:
3 (Degree)
Credits:
5
Module Coordinator:
Mr Killian Stokes
Trimester:
Autumn
Mode of Delivery:
On Campus
Internship Module:
No
How will I be graded?
Letter grades

Curricular information is subject to change.

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.

About this Module

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 Hours:
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures

4

Autonomous Student Learning

109

Online Learning

12

Total

125


Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
Lectures, participation to class discussions, case study analysis and presentation, reflective learning.

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 Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade In Module Component Repeat Offered
Assignment(Including Essay): Exploration of problems and solutions to a major social challenge in Africa Week 9 Standard conversion grade scale 40% No
50
No
Assignment(Including Essay): Case study analysis and presentation of a company and an African value chain. Week 11 Standard conversion grade scale 40% No
40
No
Participation in Learning Activities: Involvement in the course and class discussions Week 1, Week 2, Week 3, Week 4, Week 5, Week 6, Week 7, Week 8, Week 9, Week 10, Week 11, Week 12 Standard conversion grade scale 40% No
10
No

Carry forward of passed components
Yes
 

Resit In Terminal Exam
Spring No
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Group/class feedback, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Not yet recorded.

Name Role
Mr Killian Stokes Lecturer / Co-Lecturer

Timetabling information is displayed only for guidance purposes, relates to the current Academic Year only and is subject to change.
Autumn Lecture Offering 1 Week(s) - Autumn: All Weeks Thurs 11:00 - 12:50