Multinational Company & International Business Ethics

This course deals with the key aspects of a multinational company’s business ethics and corporate social responsibility. This course highlights a number of specific CSR topics such the economic, social and environmental aspects of doing business in a global context, the social responsibility when a firm sets up factories or outsources production in a context of developing countries, international business and corruption.

The course aims to enable students to develop a personal reflection and awareness on CSR issues, while both studying cases and investigating a real multinational company case. As such this course aims to increase the student’s understanding of personal and business ethics, which is a prerequisite for developing a strategic perspective on Corporate Social Responsibility in an international context. Therefore, students will have to demonstrate critical thinking and the ability to perform in an international and culturally different environment.