Department of Business

What Do Students Mainly Learn in the Department of Business?

A company is the smallest component of the economy and plays a role in producing products and services in society. In the Department of Business, students learn what is actually happening in the economy through the activities of companies. Since the School of Business has the academic tradition of integration between theory and practice, the Department of Business not only keeps its eye on realities but also values theory and history.
Business studies aim to examine the entire process of business, or the journey of products and services from companies to consumers, from various perspectives. Despite the simpleness of the term, the process of business includes a wide variety of elements, including distribution, or the movement of products, and accounting and finance, or the movement of money. Take distribution as an example. Products travel from their manufacturers through retailers to consumers. All those involved transact and advertise in their own ways. They also implement their own marketing strategies, or strategies for selling products and services. Accounting and finance are mainly about recording the activities of companies. IT business in the new era utilizes the huge mass of data collected from individual consumers. Logistics is about managing the movement of products, information, and services to ensure its efficiency. As you know now, the process of business has numerous aspects. Business studies analyze such multifaceted business activities of companies from various perspectives, including people, products and services, money, and information, all of which themselves look different in various settings. The academic field of business studies thus focuses on each of the different areas in the process of business. The Department of Business guides students to acquire a broad understanding of the mechanisms of society, and especially relationships between companies and consumers, and to deeply learn what corporate activities should be and how to launch a business.
The Department of Business enables students to explore a wide range of subjects, including those concerning overseas business, in order to foster human resources who can play important roles in corporate management and contribute to the sustainable development of society.