TDM:Enterprise & Business in the World

This subject is not offered in 2012.

Admission into the D-GLOBISS Diploma in Global Issues or 777CC Certificate in Global Issues.

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Policy, academic requirements for this course are articulated in the Course Description, Course
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This course has been designed to give an overview of the place companies and businesses have in the global economy. This course takes a theoretic-analytic approach to the study international trade and the many factors that influence it.

* Analysing the forces that influence trade and investment in the global economy.
* Analysing how international organizations work and how they influence business.
* Search, analyse and interpret environmental variables to select international markets.
* Value the differences among countries.

Individual assignments, group assignments, final review activity, final group project, quizzes.

Hill, Charles W.L., International Business: Competing in the global marketplace, 4th ed., McGraw-Hill/Irwin, Boston, Mass., 2003.
Daniels, John D., International Business: environments and operations, 11th ed., Pearson/Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ., 2006.
Griffin, Ricky W., International Business: a managerial perspective, 4th ed., Pearson/Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ., 2005.

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.