Last Week Lecture Highlights Tutorial 2 Last Week Lecture Highlights

Learning Objectives Lecture 1’s Learning Objectives: Course learning objectives Definition scope of sustainable International business 2. Key features of IB specific sustainability 3. Evolving framework/s of development phases of IB and sustainability futures 4. Impacts of “Limit to growth” theory on IB growth capacity Lecture 1’s Learning Objectives: Definition Scope Definition concepts of IB Place setting: IB environment State of play: Effects of globalisation Actors: MNCs and their economic, social & environmental impacts Justification for sustainable IB

Tutorial Objectives Learning Apply the concepts relating to IB Definition Scope; Develop analytical thinking & communications, and analytical writing planning skills

Required Readings Corporate Citizenship & climate change: A move from environmental idealism to environmental pragmatism The evolution of IB, chapter 2 The Limits to Growth – page 9-12 Development evolution of IB sustainability futures (Course learning goal 3) History of environmental sustainability movements, from theological philosophies to 21st century cross country’s collaborative social responsibility actions History of IB concepts and theories, from 19th century exploitation of natural resources in foreign lands to today’s global systems of networks and global alliances of firms  creating a global system of integrated and interdependent businesses and world economy Limits to Growth: IB’s capacity to growth has a limitation : Predicted timing to reach growth peak – within the next one hundred years Predicted outcomes: Do nothing  economic and industrial crashes with rapid decline of human population  the beginning of existential risks exposure

Given 3 Activities: Let’s do Activity 2 Consider 3 real life examples, viz., A product A company An industry. Now endeavour to assess the impact of globalisation on them. Inquiry questions: What do you see? What is the extent of benefits & losses on each of them What does the future hold to these entries with globalisation marching ahead with all its promises & pitfalls? Notes: Browse the web to find these entities. The product and the company may be from the same industry or from different ones. You may start with a definition of globalisation and its pros and cons. A discussion may follow to analyse the impact on the actual company, its product and industry. Read chapter 1 of Hill (2013) could be a good start. About the analytical thinking contexts of this question – what are they?

Given 3 Activities: Let’s do Activity 2 Consider 3 real life examples, viz., A product A company An industry. Now endeavour to assess the impact of globalisation on them. Inquiry questions: What do you see? What is the extent of benefits & losses on each of them What does the future hold to these entries with globalisation marching ahead with all its promises & pitfalls? Notes: Browse the web to find these entities. The product and the company may be from the same industry or from different ones. You may start with a definition of globalisation and its pros and cons. A discussion may follow to analyse the impact on the actual company, its product and industry. Read chapter 1 of Hill (2013) could be a good start. When one analyses information, there must be some underlying purpose/s, such as to answer some research or investigation questions , underpinning by some learning or even business goals. So why do you think are the underling learning goals of these questions? Some additional clues here

Critical analysis of Activity 2’s purpose/s Globalisation type of patterns What do you see? What is the extent of benefits & losses on each of them What does the future hold to these entries with globalisation marching ahead with all its promises & pitfalls? Notes: Browse the web to find these entities. The product and the company may be from the same industry or from different ones. You may start with a definition of globalisation and its pros and cons. A discussion may follow to analyse the impact on the actual company, its product and industry. Read chapter 1 of Hill (2013) could be a good start. In terms of its pros & cons Globalisation impacts* on product, company & industry TODAY Effects of ongoing impacts* into a longer term future *USE PESTLE analysis method to analyse the impacts

An Example of Analytical Thinking Processes Use writing techniques See the big picture contexts of the answers Design the communication (writing) logic flow to present the answers & conclusion Formulate * each answer logical flow Use analysis techniques Select relevant info that can help answer the inquiry questions identify the conceptual themes to guide information research First Draft Assignment Writing Plan Information searching What are the underlying inquiry questions & related learning objectives Cross reference to course & more detailed topics’ learning objectives Analysing the learning purpose/s of assignment brief * Integrated Basic Analysis & Research activities

Thinking & Communicating Processes Thinking Processes Communicating with each other, to share & articulate thinking Talking with team members to share & improve your thoughts, to create team based outcome – the assignment 2 report Collaborative Learning Tools Talking to yourself, to create your Assignment 3 report

Research Citations & Reference List Formats Using the wrong citation and reference listing formats of your chose referencing standard can vary from Man slaughter to first degree murder. Why?

Let’s do Activity Now Consider 3 real life examples, viz., A product A company An industry. Now endeavour to assess the impact of globalisation on them. Inquiry questions: What do you see? What is the extent of benefits & losses on each of them What does the future hold to these entries with globalisation marching ahead with all its promises & pitfalls? Notes: Browse the web to find these entities. The product and the company may be from the same industry or from different ones. You may start with a definition of globalisation and its pros and cons. A discussion may follow to analyse the impact on the actual company, its product and industry. Read chapter 1 of Hill (2013) could be a good start.

Individual Assignment 3 Self Follow up Task Group Assignment 2 & Individual Assignment 3 Plan what you need to do & do it. Assignment 2 Assignment 3