Handboksinformation

Mål

The overall aim of the course is to provide an overview of some of the most central concepts and theories dealing with corporate responsibility (CR), with a focus on environmental and social challenges, risks and opportunities from the perspective of the multinational corporation.

Central themes and cases: responsible management education; corporate responsibility (CR); accountability and transparency; green and reverse logistics; Socially Responsible Investments; critiques of CR

Learning Goals: apply theories of CR; multiperspective analysis of CR cases; critical and reflexive thinking/analysis

Undervisningsspråk

English

Undervisningstimmar

30 h

Undervisningsformer

Lectures; assignments; exercises in class and on e-learning platform (Moodle)

Litteratur

Articles will be specified by the instructor, max 500 p.

Examination

Assignments throughout the course. All assignments are valid for one academic year, thereafter if the course is not completed it has to be retaken.

Examinator

Solitander, Nikodemus

Andra examinator

Kovács, Gyöngyi

Ytterligare information

Due to the nature of assignments a maximum of 65 students will be accepted. Students with Supply Chain Management and Corporate Geography as major will be given priority, the quota for students of Marketing is 15; other students will be accepted up to the total number.

The course can be taken as part of the Study Module in Corporate Responsibility at Hanken, for further info see http://www.hanken.fi/student/csr.