| Area: | Graduate School of Business |
| Credits: | 25.0 |
| Contact Hours: | 3.0 |
| Seminar: | 1 x 3 Hours Weekly |
| Syllabus: | Discussion of anthropological concepts as they might apply to business. Investigating the cross-cultural considerations and institutional factors in international business and their impact on host countries and Australian business research. |
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| Unit Outcomes: | On successful completion of this unit, students will have - Expanded research concepts and methodologies to an international context. Considered the effects of taken for granted methods of communication in other cultural settings. Criticised a piece of cross-cultural research. Utilised one cross-cultural method, decentering, so as to recognise etic and emic characteristics of research questions. |
| Text and references listed above are for your information only and current as of September 30, 2003. Please check with the unit coordinator for up-to-date information. |
| Unit References: | No prescribed references. |
| Unit Texts: | Trompenaars, F. (1993), Riding the waves of culture, Understanding cultural diversity in business. London, Nicholas Brealey. |
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| Unit Assessment Breakdown: | Critical paper 40%. Critical paper 60%. This is by grade/mark assessment. |
| Year | Location | Period | Internal | Area External | Central External | | 2004 | Perth City Campus | Semester 1 | Y | | | | 2004 | Lingnan Uni HK | Semester 2 | Y | | | | 2004 | Rajabhat Institute Thailand | Semester 1 | Y | | | |
