This course is designed to expose students to global business and its marketing environment with a particular emphasis on the role and impact of diversity. In an interdependent global economy where countries rely on one another for sustained growth, international marketing plays a major part of this increasingly global goods and services production and delivery system. In view of the fact that international marketing is a global phenomenon we will therefore focus on both global businesses as well as the developing and industrializing nations.
Students need to learn why and how international marketing is planned and executed and especially how it impacts a country's economy and society. International marketing is not simply an extension of domestic marketing but involves the development and implementation of customized approaches to developing and moving products and services across boundaries. By definition this means that international marketing strategies must understand and apply knowledge of diverse identities to develop, offer, and evaluate the success of customized marketing strategies.