Corporate Social Responsibility: Stakeholders, Strategy and Practice
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Aim and purpose
Corporations and other organizations want to be responsible and attentive to stakeholders. They may wish to navigate the challenges posed by market and non-market forces alike. They may want to be able to pursue, or claim they are pursuing, goals formulated by the United Nations under the heading of the Sustainable Development Goals.
By following this course students obtain knowledge about theoretical models about corporate social responsibility and stakeholder management. Students acquire skills in applying business analytical tools related to CSR, including underlying strategic considerations, as well as the identifying and managing stakeholders, all for pursuing business goals.
- Imparting knowledge about the rationale for firms to be responsible and for engaging stakeholders.
- Developing skills in applying theoretical ideas and conceptual models to real problems.
- Qualifying students for analyzing complex real world issues and for proposing solutions.
- Transformation of businesses into more responsible organisations.
Content
- The first area concerns the idea of responsibility for operating a business for motives of profit or for ethical or altruistic reasons.
- The second area is about identifying, describing and assessing the stakeholders important to the pursuit of organisation goals.
- The third area is about the context in which action towards stakeholders is taken. This includes both market transactions and non-market actions, as well as the boundary area between the two.
- The fourth area of the course concentrates on increasingly practical topics such as stakeholder influence strategies and the need for practitioners to be able to document a relationship between efforts at stakeholder management and the outcome of such efforts.
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Literature
The reference text used in this course is:
Corporate Social Strategy: Stakeholder Engagement and Competitive Advantage by Bryan Husted and David Allen, Cambridge University Press, 2010, ISBN0521197643, 9780521197649
Other textbooks, as well as articles and reports may be used in the curriculum.
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Scheduled teaching (second quarter): 30 hours
Workload: Based on the total number of points, the total workload for this course is estimated to be around 202,5 hours of work in total.
30 hours are lectures, some 60 hours are examination-related and the remainder is allocated for preparation for class. These numbers are only rough estimated and variations may occur.
This corresponds to an average weekly workload of 10 hours during the semester, including the exam.
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Please read the General guidelines for written assignments.
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Individual report based on approved case topic.
Regarding reexam in the same exam tern:
If the exam is failed, the student must write a new report.
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Courses offered
Offer period | Offer type | Profile | Education | Semester |
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Fall 2024 | Optional | Cultural Sociology, valid from September 1st, 2021 - 2024 (last intake 2024) | MSc in Cultural Sociology - 2023 | Master of Science (MSc) in Cultural Sociology | Esbjerg | |
Fall 2024 | Optional | Environmental and Resource Management (ERM), Esbjerg (2022-2023) | MSc in Environmental and Resource Management - 2023 | Master of Science (MSc) in Environmental and Resource Management | Esbjerg | |
Fall 2024 | Optional | Sports and Event Mangement - Esbjerg (for students enrolled before February 1st 2025) | MSc in Economics and Business Administration | Master of Science (Msc) in Economics and Business Administration | Esbjerg, Slagelse, Odense, Kolding | |
Fall 2024 | Optional | Sports and Event Mangement - Esbjerg (for students enrolled before September 1st 2024) | MSc in Economics and Business Administration | Master of Science (Msc) in Economics and Business Administration | Esbjerg, Slagelse, Odense, Kolding | |
Fall 2024 | Optional | Marketing, Social Media, and Digitalization - Esbjerg (for students enrolled before September 1st 2024) | MSc in Economics and Business Administration | Master of Science (Msc) in Economics and Business Administration | Esbjerg, Slagelse, Odense, Kolding | |
Fall 2024 | Optional | Marketing, Social Media, and Digitalization - Esbjerg (for students enrolled before February 1st 2025) | MSc in Economics and Business Administration | Master of Science (Msc) in Economics and Business Administration | Esbjerg, Slagelse, Odense, Kolding | |
Fall 2024 | Mandatory | Sustainability Management - Esbjerg (Study start from February 1st 2025) | MSc in Economics and Business Administration | Master of Science (Msc) in Economics and Business Administration | Esbjerg, Slagelse, Odense, Kolding | 2 |
Fall 2024 | Mandatory | Sustainability Management - Esbjerg (Study start from September 1st 2024) | MSc in Economics and Business Administration | Master of Science (Msc) in Economics and Business Administration | Esbjerg, Slagelse, Odense, Kolding | 1 |
Fall 2024 | Exchange students |
Teachers
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Knud Sinding | ksi@sam.sdu.dk | Institut for Erhverv og Bæredygtighed | Esbjerg |