• Content:
• Discuss the need to move from a management model based on the extraction of nature to a model based on and indigenous knowledge to enact more responsible.
• Explain how the public sector has adopted ‘market’ oriented management models, and the implications to public management. Discuss implications of sustainable development on organisational practices in the LAC region.
• Understand other non-capitalist/indigenous ways of living and livelihoods and the implications of this for Human Rights and doing Business in Latin America.
• Formulate an exam topic, in the form of a synopsis, based on the themes and concepts in the curriculum, and reflect analytically upon the links between that topic and the other topics and concepts in the curriculum, without having to be prompted by the examiner.
• Language:
• Respond fluently to the examiner’s questions, so that the examination flows as a dialogue.
• Speak grammatically correct, coherent and well-pronounced Spanish without committing grammatical, lexical, idiomatic or pronunciation errors that disturb communication.
• Present and discuss a given topic in Spanish using an appropriate and rich vocabulary and academic terminology.
• Correct errors in the exam situation.

Globalisation has led to new dynamics and new organisational adjustments and the management in the public and private sectors, and in civil society organisations in the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region.

In order to discuss the implications the LAC region, in the private and public sectors for the need to move from a traditional organisational model based on the extraction of nature and impacted by patronage and corruption. In order to reach a different more inclusive management model based on deliberate democracy and indigenous knowledge with the aim of enacting more responsible and sustainable management. These tendencies promote the adaptation of new management models, which are based on market ideologies, and the notion on information society based, and social responsibility of economic and political actors, in a hyper-informed world.

This course is divided into three blocks, which combine specific cases (meso and micro levels), considering theoretical perspectives and critiques to explore the ‘translation’ of ‘new’ management practices in the LAC region in private sector. In the first block is presented business strategies of local (LAC) and European firms in LAC. The second block presents the new public management and its implication to democracy in the LAC region. In the third block is analysed sustainable development and human rights, and their organisational implications, on the transformation of the organisational practices.

Please note that the complete literature list will be available on Canvas

1. Concha, J. y Gómez, O. (2016). Análisis de atracción de inversión extranjera a países de la Alianza del Pacífico. Estudios Gerenciales, [en linea] 32(141), pp.369-380. (Total páginas 7). Disponible en: http:/​/​www.redalyc.org/​articulo.oa?id=21251783009

2. Torres Guillén, J. (2014). El carácter analítico y político del concepto de colonialismo interno de Pablo González Casanova. Desacatos, 85–98. (Total páginas 12). Disponible en:  http:/​/​www.redalyc.org/​articulo.oa?id=13931306008

3. Galván Martínez, D. y Fermán Almada, J. y Espejel, I. (2016). ¿Sustentabilidad comunitaria indígena? Un modelo integral. Sociedad y Ambiente, [en linea] (11), pp.4-22. (Total páginas 14). Disponible en: http:/​/​www.redalyc.org/​articulo.oa?id=455748464002