Course overview
This course examines how multinational enterprises engage with international trade and sustainability regulations, applying economic theories to environmental, labour, and human rights frameworks to analyse firm behaviour, regulatory impacts, and global value chain dynamics.
- Global Sustainability Architectures and Trade Governance
- Regulatory Issues and Market Dynamics
- MNC Strategy, Standards, and Applied Analysis
Course learning outcomes
- Comprehend evolving global trade-related architectures for regulating sustainability.
- Understand the European Union and developed countries’ central role in driving regulatory design.
- Evaluate how sustainability regulations affect MNCs’ international business via global value chains, using economic theories of trade and firm behaviour.
- Analyse how markets respond to sustainability regulations and fill regulatory gaps, drawing on concepts of market failure, externalities, and public goods.
- Contextualise MNCs’ international business strategies in relation to evolving sustainability architecture.
- Apply knowledge of regulatory architectures and economic reasoning in practical case-study settings.
Availability
Class details
Adelaide City Campus East
Class number 29344
Section WS01
Size 40
Available 31
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