Global Value Chains have transformed the nature of trade and foreign direct investment and continue to bring opportunities and challenges for business enterprises and their operations around the world. Learn about how you as a manager can develop optimal relationships with your value chain partners, adapt to changing business and industry supply chain circumstances, and make responsible decisions in the context of an uncertain global economy. Evaluate the governance, policy, and power relationships that shape global value chains and learn how to manage risk and make your industry supply chains resilient to external shocks. Collaborate with other students on your course to analyse the value chains of real-world multinational companies and report on them, developing communication skills that you will be able to boast about!
Lecture 16, Seminar 16
Online test (1 hour) worth 20%.
Individual Global Operations Report (3000 words) worth 80%.
Reassessment Method: 100% Written Assessment (Report – 3000 words)
On successfully completing the module, students will be able to:
Critically apply global supply chain management and global value chains knowledge to different types of organisations, industries and sectors.
Evaluate, formulate and effectively communicate solutions to real-world global supply chain problems by value chain mapping of functions and geographies and identifying value-adding sustainable contributions by the lead firm and other firm and non-form actors or stakeholders.
Make viable recommendations on various types of value chain upgrading even with imperfect information or incomplete data.
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