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| Udgave: |
Forår 2013 Samf |
| ECTS points: |
10 ECTS |
| Punkter: |
10 ECTS |
Semester: |
Spring 2013
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| Uddannelsesdel: |
Kandidat niveau |
| Kontaktpersoner: |
Jette Steen Knudsen (Cordinator for courses in English: Anders Berg-Sørensen)
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| Skema- oplysninger: |
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| Undervisnings- form: |
The seminar will include a combination of lectures and class discussions. Several sections will also address a practical case. Finally, we will invite experts in the field to give presentations.
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| Indhold: |
Western firms operating in or sourcing from developing countries are increasingly held responsible for a range of issues such as climate change, labor rights and human rights that have previously been seen as outside a firm’s sphere of influence (Reich 1998). Today stakeholders as diverse as investors, employees, the media, NGOs and customers have strong views on how corporations should be run.
One example is Nike, which owned no factories in the US but purchased shoes from factories in Indonesia, China and Vietnam. Nike came under severe criticism in the mid 1990s because Nike’s suppliers had forced workers to work extremely long shifts under dangerous conditions. As a response to the criticism, Nike issued its own code of conduct for suppliers. Another example is Wal-Mart which according to Jon Entine, a journalist with the magazine Ethical Corporation, has turned “from evil empire to jolly green giant” (Entine 2008: 36). Wal-Mart now works with suppliers on greening its supply chain including increasing the purchase of organic cotton, improving energy efficiency, etc.
The course addresses the following key questions:
1. What drives the Corporate Social Responsibility agenda?
2. How should business respond: Minimizing business risk.
3. How should business respond: Maximizing business opportunity.
4. Limits to CSR.
5. Managing CSR initiatives: Codes of conduct.
6. Reporting: benefits and drawbacks.
7. Institutional investors and socially responsible investments.
8. The crystal ball: New CSR issues and challenges?
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| Kompetence- beskrivelse: |
Students will engage with each other in case discussions and participate in staged debates where they will be asked to challenge each other and/or defend or critique certain positions. In addition, students will be asked to provide perspectives that reflect their backgrounds (e.g. university major, nationality and practical experience).
I will ask each of you to make a presentation to the class about a topic that you wish to write about in your term paper. You do not have to have a well-developed idea. The intention is that we use your research problem as a way to reflect about how this problem can be approach theoretically and methodologically. The purpose is for you to start thinking about your paper early and to learn about good research methods.
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| Målbeskrivelse: |
Students should learn to critically analyze and evaluate key drivers of a CSR agenda as well as business impact using relevant theories.
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Describe, classify, structure, and combine the concepts, theories, methods, and models of the course.
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Identify and develop relevant problems within CSR strategy on the basis of marking problems.
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Analyse and synthesise concrete problems within CSR strategy by applying the concepts, theories, methods, and models of the course.
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Apply CSR to analyzing concrete CSR cases.
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Evaluate and disseminate solutions to problems concerning a CSR strategy at an independent and reflected academic level.
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| Faglige forudsætninger: |
The course is intended for students with a wide range of interests including international regulation, political communication, labor market issues, NGO work, institutional investors and business strategy.
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| Eksamensform: |
Free assignment/ Written Examination.
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| Kursus hjemmeside: |
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| Undervisnings- sprog: |
Kun engelsk
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| Sidst redigeret: |
9/11-2012 |