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Global Value Chains (IBUS90008)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Online
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About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
Semester 2
Prof Hari Bapuji hari.bapuji@unimelb.edu.au
Dr Liang Chen liang.chen@unimelb.edu.au
Overview
Availability | Semester 2 - Online |
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Fees | Look up fees |
Many of the products and services consumed in Australia and around the world are designed, manufactured and delivered via interdependent global value chains. Therefore, success of firms depends on their ability to manage these value chains dispersed across the world. This subject will discuss global value chains, their functioning, the challenges they face, and the strategies to manage them. Particularly, the subject will analyse the sociopolitical and economic conditions giving rise to global value chains, their governance and management, risks posed by them and the strategies to manage them, sustainability challenges in them, and their future.
Intended learning outcomes
On successful completion of this marketing subject, students should be able to:
- Understand the emergence of global value chains
- Understand the importance of global value chains to businesses and economies
- Analyse the risks and challenges of global value chains, and formulate action plans to manage them
- Appreciate the sustainability issues (social and environmental) involved in global value chains and develop knowledge to manage them
- Analyse and synthesise different theories, models and ideas relevant to global value chains
- Appropriately apply theories, models and ideas to different scenarios as presented in case studies and class materials
- Critically evaluate usefulness of the different theories, models and ideas to manage global value chains
Generic skills
On successful completion of this subject, students should have improved the following generic skills
- Intellectual development
- Oral and written communication
- Collaborative learning & teamwork
- Problem solving
- Application of theory to practice
- Interpretation and analysis
- Critical thinking
- Receptiveness to alternative ideas
Last updated: 9 April 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 9 April 2024
Assessment
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Participation in online and in class discussion
| Throughout the teaching period | 10% |
In class assignments and presentations
| Throughout the teaching period | 30% |
Group assignment including presentation (groups of 3-4)
| Second half of the teaching period | 30% |
Individual assignment
| End of the teaching period | 30% |
Last updated: 9 April 2024
Dates & times
- Semester 2 - Online
Principal coordinator Hari Bapuji Coordinator Liang Chen Mode of delivery Online Contact hours 36 hours (1.5hr lecture plus 1.5hr workshop each week) Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 26 July 2021 to 24 October 2021 Last self-enrol date 6 August 2021 Census date 31 August 2021 Last date to withdraw without fail 24 September 2021 Assessment period ends 19 November 2021 Semester 2 contact information
Prof Hari Bapuji hari.bapuji@unimelb.edu.au
Dr Liang Chen liang.chen@unimelb.edu.au
Last updated: 9 April 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
There are no specifically prescribed or recommended texts for this subject.
- Related Handbook entries
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Type Name Course Master of Management - Available through the Community Access Program
About the Community Access Program (CAP)
This subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.
Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.
Last updated: 9 April 2024