units
MKX5931
Faculty of Business and Economics
This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2015 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.
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Level | Postgraduate |
Faculty | Faculty of Business and Economics |
Organisational Unit | Department of Marketing |
Offered | Malaysia First semester 2015 (Day) Malaysia Second semester 2015 (Evening) |
Coordinator(s) | Associate Professor Paul Yeow |
The aim of this unit is to provide international business students with basic knowledge and understanding of electronic business. This includes mechanism, infrastructure and tools of electronic business, retailing in electronic business, electronic learning, collaborative commerce, business to business electronic procurement, mobile electronic business, social commerce, marketing and advertising in electronic business, electronic business security and fraud protection, electronic business payment systems, electronic business strategies and globalization, and electronic business regulatory, ethical and social environments. Students are to analyse electronic business needs of consumers and businesses across the globe, and use the knowledge acquired in this unit to develop innovative e-business models to improve international business effectiveness and/or increase efficiency. In particular, emphasis will be placed on critical analysis and insights gained from electronic business literature, case studies, project works to solve the strategic problems of leveraging electronic business in international environment.
The learning goals to be achieved in this unit are to:
Within semester assessment: 60%
Examination: 40%
Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Independent study may include associated readings, assessment and preparation for scheduled activities. The unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.
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