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International business, societies and cultures (MASTER)

Goals

- Familiarize students with interdisciplinary scholarship on markets in a global business environment, including the fields of sociology, cultural studies, communication, and economics;
- Provide students an opportunity to consider the usefulness of culture as a lens for studying markets and organizations, and a sociological toolkit for understanding the global economy;
- Help build students’ glocal (global + local) mindset and increase awareness of the global and local contexts within which markets, consumers and institutions operate.

Syllabus

1. Course introduction
2. Basic sociological tools and concepts for understanding markets, institutions and organizations in the global economy
3. Culture and consumption, markets, and prices
4. Contextualizing international business activities: groups and social identity (including stereotypes and ethnic distance), embededdness, social networks, social capital
5. Institutions, organizations and culture/society
6. Impact of global trends on business: climate change and sustainable development, demographics changes, migration patterns, inequality
7. Managing international business-society relations
8. Social responsibility, markets and social justice, ethics and values in diverse business environments
9. Understanding global economic events in social terms: globalization and securitization, 2008 world financial crisis and its aftermath, global resistance movements (e.g. Occupy Wall Street)
10. Student presentations

Contacts

Tamara Pavasović Trošt

Office hours

Monday at 14:00

room P-349

Office hours this week will be on Tuesday Feb. 25 instead of Monday Feb. 24 from 14-15h. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Business portrait of Tamara Pavašović Trost in the green atrium of the School of Economics and Business on a sunny day in June 2024

Anastas Vangeli

Office hours

Tuesday at 10:00

room P-330/Zoom

11. 3 - no office hours, please contact me to arrange a meeting

Business portrait of Anastas Vangeli in the library of the School of Economics and Business in October 2024, with a round window and shelves full of books in the background