ABSTRACT

Transboundary challenges such as climate change, loss of biodiversity, energy transformation and the Covid-19 pandemic put vast pressures on generating solutions. They also call for updated teaching providing the required capabilities for international business (IB) and -entrepreneurship (IE) students. This paper presents a teaching initiative supporting master’s students to develop an overview of such contemporary and timely challenges and global concerns. The course, developed jointly by two universities and first administered in 2020 at LUT University, combines economic, social, and environmental sustainability aspects with managerial and entrepreneurial issues on IB, triggering the students to rethink and critically address ways forward. Students develop skills and competences to tackle complex real-life problems in collaboration with others, facilitating their entrepreneurial, global mind-set and sensitivity to cultural issues in IB. Thus, the presented teaching approach and course initiative contributes to theory and practice of teaching IB, by presenting how key challenges in contemporary IB can be incorporated in international business education of universities.

摘要

气候变化、生物多样性丧失、能源转型和 Covid-19 大流行等跨界挑战给制定解决方案带来了巨大压力。他们还呼吁更新教学，为国际商务 (IB) 和创业 (IE) 学生提供所需的能力。本文提出了一项教学计划，支持硕士生对这些当代和及时的挑战和全球关注的问题进行概述。该课程由两所大学联合开发，并于 2020 年在 LUT 大学首次管理，将经济、社会和环境可持续性方面与 IB 的管理和创业问题相结合，促使学生重新思考和批判性地解决前进的道路。学生发展技能和能力，与他人合作解决复杂的现实生活问题，促进他们的创业、全球思维和对国际文凭文化问题的敏感性。因此，所提出的教学方法和课程倡议有助于IB教学的理论和实践，通过展示当代IB中的关键挑战如何融入大学的国际商业教育。