Module "Responsible and Sustainable Food Business in Global Contexts (International Management)"

MSc International Food Business and Consumer Studies
MSc Sustainable International Agriculture

• The process of globalisation and its impact on the agri-food sector;
• Corporate social responsibility, governance and accountability;
  
• The role of transparency of products and markets in the context of an increasingly globalised world;
  
• International developments in and governance of environmental and social reporting;
• The management of global value chains in the agri-food sector;
• Social and environmental responsibility in supply chain management;
• The management and reporting of environmental and social information in complex organisational settings (such as multinational food businesses);
• The contrasting perspectives in social responsibility and accountability of business across borders.

The module aims are:

• To deepen the students’ understanding of the role of food business in society and the social responsibility and accountability issues that arise in a global business setting;
• To familiarise students with the concepts and frameworks used in responsible and sustainable food business, the development of business principles for responsible food businesses, to meet stakeholders’ interests;
• To provide students with the knowledge and confidence to critically reflect corporate practice;
• To raise awareness for different perspectives which provide contrasting and competing ways of making sense of responsible food business practices.

Lectures and short lectures combined with facilitated group discussion; seminars include problem-based learning elements such as case studies.

Lectures 30 hours and seminar 30 hours

Written report in the form of a “learning journal” (60% of the overall assessment); oral examination (40%)

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