Course details
Research in Social Responsibility and Sustainability
DDRS 80467A
This seminar aims at developing in-depth knowledge on different theoretical perspectives in the field of business and society. Our target audience is students in the joint PhD program interested in topics such as corporate social responsibility, sustainable development, social innovation and the political role of corporations and civil society, and on their own roles as researchers. We introduce this seminar with a historical discussion on the emergence and consolidation of business and society as a field of research in management, and divide classes in three main sections, according to the main unit of analysis under investigation: SECTION 1 - the organization (corporations and new organizational forms); SECTION 2 - the relation (organizations - government - civil society); SECTION 3 - a fourth, reflexive relation: science and the role and responsibility of researchers in action-oriented CSR and sustainability science.
Themes covered
A historical perspective of CSR
CSR and the construction of the competitive advantage
The business case for CSR: The link with financial performance
The base of the pyramid approach
The social entrepreneurship approach
The private sector (enterprises) and public (government) relations - The political aspect of CSR. (1)
The private sector (enterprises) and public (government) relations - The political aspect of CSR. (2)
The relations between the private sector (enterprises) and civil society particularly as related to local communities
The multi-stakeholder approaches that imply the three sectors of government civil society and the private sector around CSR and sustainable development
Time: The role of temporal orientations and intergenerational considerations CSR and in sustainable development
Space: The relevance of space CSR and in sustainable development
Scale: The implication of different scales for CSR and in sustainable development
Resilience and Systems Thinking
Course code
DDRS 80467A
Subject
Développement durable et responsabilité sociale
Program
PhD
Instruction mode
On-site learning
Credits
3