MSc in East Asian Business (Full-Time, 12 months)
The MSc in East Asian Business offers a flexible range of units on business practice and culture in East Asia, some taught comparatively, other focusing specifically on China, Japan or Korea.
All students will study the contemporary economic development and the business environments and cultures of East Asia; options include units focusing on management practice in China, Japan and Korea. These units will address such questions as:
- How has South Korea’s response to the current global financial crisis reflected the lessons it learned from the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997?
- Why do Chinese firms invest abroad?
- How has rising affluence affected working life in Japan?
- What makes the Japanese market interesting for foreign firms?
- How important is technical progress to East Asian economic growth?
Students may also choose from units on East Asian politics, economy and society, on management studies, or undertake some language study.
Diploma (9 months) and Certificate (4 months) options are also available for this programme – please contact us for further details.
Content of the degree
Work and Organisation in East Asia
Investing in East Asia
Project/Dissertation
Options from
Business and Economy of Japan
Business and Management in Contemporary Korea
Contemporary Chinese Business and Management
and
Contemporary Chinese Society
Global Governance and Japan
Political Economy of China
Media and Public Communication in Japan
Chinese, Japanese or Korean Language
and
International Human Resource Studies
International Management
Negotiation and Intercultural Communication
International Business Strategy