Comparative Crises Management

3.00 credits · Undergraduate

The focus of this course is to understand the issue of global crises – how they are defined, how they affect nations/communities/cultures/economies/global business, and how and why responses to crises vary widely cross-culturally and cross-nationally - and the impact of these differences. The course will begin with some basics: what is globalization and global business, what do we mean by crisis, and how does national culture inform crisis response? We will then look at the notion of crisis management – what it is and how it varies cross-culturally and across business sectors. Discussion topics include crisis communication, the effects of crisis on supply chains, logistics, global and national governance, economic security, civil liberties and business.