BX3061 - International Business
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 3 |
| Administered by: | School of Business |
International business competes within a dynamic, strategic and global arena. The international business environment is always subject to change, as is the immediate business sphere. Business components including e-Business, e-Commerce, Services, Logistics, Finance, Marketing, HR, Politics, Law, Trade are also often subject to incremental or disruptive changes. The customer is yet another component to consider. Understanding this complex ingredient mix sets the framework for international success. A plan for strategic international business expansion is developed.
Learning Outcomes
- understand the broad history and foundations of international business;
- discuss, analyse and apply international business theory and policy;
- understand business from a global perspective and within the global marketplace;
- develop an international business solution eg. a global business plan, a business web site, a business/e-Business strategy, or an business simulation game solution;
- acquire insight(s) into the role of business enterprises in the expansion of business into the international environment.
Graduate Qualities
- The ability to define and to solve problems in at least one discipline area;
- The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments, and to reason and deploy evidence clearly and logically;
- The ability to select and organise information and to communicate it accurately, cogently, coherently, creatively and ethically;
- The ability to reflect on and evaluate learning, and to learn independently in a self directed manner;
- The ability to generate, calculate, interpret and communicate numerical information in ways appropriate to a given discipline or discourse;
- The ability to use online technologies effectively and ethically.
| Inadmissible Subject Combinations: | MG3715 |
Availabilities | |
| Townsville, Block, Study Period 10 | |
| Census Date 11-Dec-2009 | |
| Face to face teaching 26-Nov-2009 to 11-Dec-2009 (Face to face dates are 9 to 4 on 26 & 27 Nov; 2, 10 & 11 Dec. Exam date is yet to be determined.) | |
| Coordinator: | Assoc. Professor John Hamilton |
| Lecturers: | Professor Zhang-Yue Zhou, Dr Hong-Bo Liu. |
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| Assessment: | other exams (% - 30%); presentations (% - 25%); business plan report (% - 45%). |
| Special Assessment Requirements: | Compulsory attendance requirements in pre-course briefing, first lecture, and benchmarking presentation sessions, for other lectures flexible option exists |
| Cairns, Block, Study Period 3 | |
| Census Date 23-Jan-2009 | |
| Face to face teaching 19-Jan-2009 to 01-Feb-2009 (Pre-Course Briefing on 19 Jan from 6 to 8pm. Face to face dates are: 9am to 5pm on 27, 28, 29 31 Jan and 1 Feb.) | |
| Coordinator: | Assoc. Professor John Hamilton |
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| Assessment: | other exams (% - 30%); presentations (% - 25%); business plan report (% - 45%). |
| Special Assessment Requirements: | Compulsory attendance requirements in pre-course briefing, first lecture, and benchmarking presentation sessions, for other lectures flexible option exists |
| JCU Singapore, Internal, Study Period 52 | |
| Census Date 24-Jul-2009 | |
| Coordinator: | Assoc. Professor John Hamilton |
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| Assessment: | other exams (% - 30%); presentations (% - 25%); business plan report (% - 45%). |
| Special Assessment Requirements: | Compulsory attendance requirements in pre-course briefing, first lecture, and benchmarking presentation sessions, for other lectures flexible option exists |
| JCU Brisbane, Internal, Study Period 21 | |
| Census Date 17-Apr-2009 | |
| Coordinator: | Assoc. Professor John Hamilton |
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| Assessment: | other exams (% - 30%); presentations (% - 25%); business plan report (% - 45%). |
| Special Assessment Requirements: | Compulsory attendance requirements in pre-course briefing, first lecture, and benchmarking presentation sessions, for other lectures flexible option exists |
| JCU Brisbane, Internal, Study Period 22 | |
| Census Date 14-Aug-2009 | |
| Coordinator: | Assoc. Professor John Hamilton |
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| Assessment: | other exams (% - 30%); presentations (% - 25%); business plan report (% - 45%). |
| Special Assessment Requirements: | Compulsory attendance requirements in pre-course briefing, first lecture, and benchmarking presentation sessions, for other lectures flexible option exists |
| JCU Brisbane, Internal, Study Period 23 | |
| Census Date 11-Dec-2009 | |
| Coordinator: | Assoc. Professor John Hamilton |
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| Assessment: | other exams (% - 30%); presentations (% - 25%); business plan report (% - 45%). |
| Special Assessment Requirements: | Compulsory attendance requirements in pre-course briefing, first lecture, and benchmarking presentation sessions, for other lectures flexible option exists |
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