Systems, Strategy and Sustainability
Systems, Strategic and Sustainability is an elective subject in the full-time MBA at the AGSM.
- When: Term 3 or Term 6
- Instructors: Paul Martin, Bob Marks, Marc Orlitzky, James Carlopio
- Objectives:
The objectives of this subject are to:
a. provide an integrated perspective on issues of ecological sustainability, social equity, and economic performance;
b. point the way towards opportunities which may arise at the intersection between these considerations; and
c. provide students with the thinking frameworks to allow them to engage constructively with complex systems management issues. - Student Outcomes:
At the end of this subject students should expect that they will have the
following competences.
a. An ability to map out system relationships for the purpose of understanding complex relationships and determining management approaches to complex problems.
b. The capacity to perceive and explain the interconnection between natural systems, social systems and decision/action systems.
c. The capacity to design strategies which can bring into alignment the requirements of sustainability, social equity and economic performance of organisations. - Assessment:
Assessment of the student's achievement of the outcomes noted above is
through the satisfactory completion of a project within which the student
will analyse a complex sustainability/systems issue, through to the
generation of an actionable strategy. This will be done in a number of stages
throughout the subject. The overall criteria for judging this work will be
whether the student has been able to demonstrate:
1. an understanding of systems thinking, and its use in understanding the interaction between natural systems, individual and organisation decision systems and social systems.
2. insightful identification of system elements, interactions and processes which underpin the behaviour of that system; and
3. the capacity to determine actionable sustainability promoting strategies on the basis of this analysis.
Paul Martin
Paul Martin
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Lectures 2, 3, 4: Ecology, equity, and economy --an illustration of thinking
systems tools.
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Robert Marks
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Lecture 5: Economic systems.
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Lecture 6: Pricing and resource use.
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Lecture 7: Pricing and signals.
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Lecture 8: Preserving the commons.
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Paul Martin
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Lectures 11, 12, 13: Regulatory mechanisms.
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Marc Orlitzky
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Lectures 14, 15, 16: Individual choice systems.
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James Carlopio
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Lectures 17, 18, 19: Systematic organisational change.
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Tutti
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Lecture 20: Synthesis and strategy.
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Readings & links
- Background reading by Paul Martin
- Reading: Business negotiation on the Internet
- Reading: Internet auctions
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Last Updated 17 April 2000 Robert Marks, bobm@agsm.edu.au