Course Overview

Business competition just getting harder and highly dynamic. The Industrial Revolution 4.0 and the development of information technology caused the business landscape to change rapidly. The CEO faces such fragile and huge challenges that they might never have faced before. The strategic issues, such as climate change, environment, sustainability, governance, and efficiency, as well as efficiency, force any business actors to continuously find new solutions and approaches. IoT becomes a new platform and could be used as a powerful weapon to outperform competitors. Thus, students need to prepare themselves for this challenging environment and, at the same time, enhance their soft skills.

This course aims to introduce and discuss broad aspects of fundamental business concepts in a global context. Lectures will embrace all business facets that are of importance, such as business and economic systems, the forms of business, business environment, international business, operational aspects, business organization and management, organizational behavior and design, managerial functions typically embedded in organizations (profit oriented) such as financial management, human resources management, operation management, and management information system.