Overview

This unit aims to equip students with a comprehensive framework to formulate sustainable business strategies and gain competitive advantages in global markets. Students will learn to evaluate the effectiveness of international business strategies through justice and fairness and sustainability concepts. The unit emphasises the strategic challenges confronting diverse organisations across the globe. It focuses on corporate and business level strategies consolidating and building on the learning students have gained in prior units in international business. The unit covers firm capabilities, institutional differences, global strategic alliances, competitive advantage, and sustainable development.

Requisites

Prerequisites
INB30020 Sustainable International Business Strategy

Rule

175 credit points

Teaching periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Semester 2
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
04-August-2025
02-November-2025
Last self-enrolment date
17-August-2025
Census date
31-August-2025
Last withdraw without fail date
19-September-2025
Results released date
09-December-2025

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Develop global competitive corporate strategies within diverse industrial, regional, national, and international settings.
  • Analyse the global business environment and how social, political, and institutional environments influence competitive behaviour
  • Evaluate contemporary global business issues informed by sustainable development and ethical practice
  • Work collaboratively in diverse teams to formulate innovative solutions to complex global business issues.

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
On-campus
Class
2.00 12 weeks 24
Online
Lecture
1.00 12 weeks 12
Unspecified Activities
Independent Learning
9.50 12 weeks 114
TOTAL150

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
Assignment 1Individual 20 - 30% 1,2,3 
Assignment 2Group 20 - 30% 1,2,3,4 
Case Study ReportIndividual 40 - 60% 1,2,3 

Content

  • Environment of Globalizing Business
  • Global and Regional Integration
  • Analysis of Opportunities and Risks
  • Value-based view, institutional-based view, relational-based view, capacity building-based view of International Business Strategy
  • Strategy Formulation
  • Strategy Implementation
  • Strategy Control and Evaluation
  • Sustainability in Global Environment
  • Justice and Fainess view of International Business Strategy

Study resources

Reading materials

A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.