School: Business and Law

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  • Unit Title

    Global Corporate Sustainability and Stakeholder Management
  • Unit Code

    MBA6310
  • Year

    2026
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Prof Gabriel EWEJE

Description

This unit is an analysis of the relationship between business, the natural environment, and environmental sustainability. It considers the implications of global corporate sustainability for business policy, profitability, social license and management practice. The unit examines debates on social and environmental issues relevant to business and applies theories of sustainability and stakeholder management for achieving effective global corporate sustainability practice.

Equivalent Rule

Equivalent to MBA6140

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse global social and environmental issues to evaluate the threats and opportunities they present for business practice.
  2. Critically evaluate key concepts and theories of corporate sustainability.
  3. Examine the impacts of major global sustainability issues on business organisation and management.
  4. Apply global best-practice sustainability frameworks to support planning in organisational sustainability practice.
  5. Critically evaluate stakeholder management concepts and their application in corporate sustainability practice.

Unit Content

  1. The holistic view of sustainability and the historical context.
  2. Sustainability theoretical frameworks.
  3. Corporate social and environmental responsibilities, UN Sustainable Development Goals & the circular economy.
  4. Leadership and strategy for global corporate sustainability.
  5. Corporate sustainability strategy and responses.
  6. Sustainability in global value chains and modern slavery.
  7. Sustainability and multi-stakeholder partnerships.
  8. The evolutionary corporation – the shift to sustainability.
  9. AI, technology and sustainability.
  10. The benefits of sustainability for corporation and society.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

City CampusJoondalupSouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

The teaching and learning approach is student-centred with practical activities utilised in the development and application of content knowledge.You will be expected to complete selected readings and self-study material prior to sessions to ensure full participation in class and with your colleagues. Subject to availability, guest speakers in the unit will assist learners to make the connections between theory and practice.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ReportSustainability Report40%
ExaminationExamination60%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ReportSustainability report40%
ExaminationExamination60%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

  • Plagiarism: Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).
  • Unauthorised collaboration (collusion): Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).
  • Contract cheating: Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.
  • Cheating in an exam: Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment Procedure - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment Procedure - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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