Coventry University program

Geopolitical, Economic and Legal Environments (FBLT022)

Explore the three major factors that influence the business environment and the challenges they impose on international business.

Examining the geopolitical, economic, and legal environments

This unit will provide you with a clear focus on the main factors effecting the business environment:

Geopolitical environment will develop your ability to think critically about geopolitical issues and their impact on the business environment.

Economics environment will explore the connections in the global business environment between economics and other elements such as work culture. We will examine the trends that are shaping our world.

Legal environment will examine the lack of a developed legal internet framework and explore the legal issues around companies operating on the Web.

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Delivered by expert academics

Coventry secured a gold rating in the UK government’s 2017 Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) and is the country’s top modern university in the Guardian University Guide 2018.

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Who will you learn with?

Abdoulie is a Senior Lecturer in International Business in the School of Strategy and Leadership at Coventry Business School and Course Director for the Masters in Leadership & Management program

Dr Kasim Randeree is Curriculum Lead and Associate Professor in Leadership and was formerly Director of MBA Programmes and Principal Lecturer in Business Management at Coventry University.

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Learning outcomes

On completion of this module, you should be able to:

• Develop the ability to think critically and systematically about Geopolitical, economic, and legal issues that have impact on the environment

• Critically evaluate theoretical understandings of the concepts of Geopolitical, economic, and legal environment.

• Evaluate and critically analyse key debates in the fields of geopolitical, economic, and legal environment and explain how the market system affects the competitive environment

• Analyse the global business environment in different industrial sectors and evaluate the strategies corporations deploy to manage those environments

• Demonstrate understanding of the global business environment by communicating, both verbally and in writing, complex ideas and arguments about the evolution and dynamics of the world economy

• Identify, synthesise and present a critical evaluation of complex ideas and arguments and present in a form of report

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