School: Business and Law

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Business in Asia
  • Unit Code

    INB3600
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    4
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Alexander Rolfe BEST

Description

The unit introduces students to the diverse business traditions that operate in the Asian region. Our core aim is to develop an understanding of how business enterprises in these diverse traditions apply and to develop appropriate business strategies in the context of the new global economy. In this unit we will focus on four major business traditions in Asia: the Japanese, the South Korean, and the overseas and mainland Chinese. In each tradition, we examine the type of business enterprise that has emerged focusing on the nature of business organisation, leadership, management style, business strategy and the general business culture that has evolved in each. A key feature of each of these traditions is their continued regional and international expansion and we will explore the adaptations occurring in this internationalisation process. What makes this transformation of business strategy so challenging is the fact that international trade and investment cycles will always be present when businesses consider their strategic options. In this context, phases of rapid expansion are inevitably followed by periods of downturn and crisis. Now that all significant business enterprises are globalising, the anticipation of these twists and turns is even more critical.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Conceptualise the historic roots of business practice differences across Asia through investigation, analysis, evaluation, and synthesis.
  2. Analyse business practice differences between Chinese, Japanese, and South Korean approaches.
  3. Appraise the role that relationships play when doing business in Asia and develop recommendations to navigate the challenges.
  4. Critique the dominant business systems across Asia by designing solutions to current and future challenges.

Unit Content

  1. Joint ventures and penetrating the market.
  2. Ethnic management systems.
  3. Relationship forming patterns.
  4. Negotiation styles.
  5. The evolution and development of these models and their associated characteristics.
  6. Definition and examination of Asian business models.
  7. Historical perspectives of doing business with the: Chinese, Japanese, South Koreans and Overseas Chinese.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ReportGroup Written Report30%
Case StudyIndividual Video Case Study30%
ProjectIndividual Written Project40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ReportGroup Written Report30%
Case StudyIndividual Video Case Study30%
ProjectIndividual Written Project40%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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School: Business and Law

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Business in Asia
  • Unit Code

    INB3600
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    4
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Alexander Rolfe BEST

Description

The unit introduces students to the diverse business traditions that operate in the Asian region. Our core aim is to develop an understanding of how business enterprises in these diverse traditions apply and to develop appropriate business strategies in the context of the new global economy. In this unit we will focus on four major business traditions in Asia: the Japanese, the South Korean, and the overseas and mainland Chinese. In each tradition, we examine the type of business enterprise that has emerged focusing on the nature of business organisation, leadership, management style, business strategy and the general business culture that has evolved in each. A key feature of each of these traditions is their continued regional and international expansion and we will explore the adaptations occurring in this internationalisation process. What makes this transformation of business strategy so challenging is the fact that international trade and investment cycles will always be present when businesses consider their strategic options. In this context, phases of rapid expansion are inevitably followed by periods of downturn and crisis. Now that all significant business enterprises are globalising, the anticipation of these twists and turns is even more critical.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Conceptualise the historic roots of business practice differences across Asia through investigation, analysis, evaluation, and synthesis.
  2. Analyse business practice differences between Chinese, Japanese, and South Korean approaches.
  3. Appraise the role that relationships play when doing business in Asia and develop recommendations to navigate the challenges.
  4. Critique the dominant business systems across Asia by designing solutions to current and future challenges.

Unit Content

  1. Joint ventures and penetrating the market.
  2. Ethnic management systems.
  3. Relationship forming patterns.
  4. Negotiation styles.
  5. The evolution and development of these models and their associated characteristics.
  6. Definition and examination of Asian business models.
  7. Historical perspectives of doing business with the: Chinese, Japanese, South Koreans and Overseas Chinese.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ReportGroup Written Report30%
Case StudyIndividual Video Case Study30%
ProjectIndividual Written Project40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ReportGroup Written Report30%
Case StudyIndividual Video Case Study30%
ProjectIndividual Written Project40%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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