Learning outcome
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- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding the complexity of sustainability and business impact;
- Ability to evaluate tools for measuring/benchmarking/evaluating corporate responsibility ;
- Ability to identify and analyse business impacts, critically evaluate existing Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives ;
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of sustainable business management and reporting, present convincing and well-argued cases for particular CSR-related decisions;
- To be aware of, and understand, the appropriate relevant research literature, synthesise information and write and debate analytically on the subject.
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Indicative content
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- Historical context, theoretical overview of CSR ;
- Sustainability issues: how business is responding to the challenge of sustainable development;
- Assessment of the practice of Corporate Responsibility: tools and methods ;
- Multi stakeholders perspective in CSR ;
- Environmental innovations and corporate responsibility ;
- Human and worker rights, employ engagement ;
- Transparency and anticorruption measures ;
- Strategic CSR – business case for CSR;
- CSR in global supply chains ;
- CSR and the role of the Government ;
- Responsible Investment ;
- Trade, labour and corporate citizenship in a globalising world;
- Applied CSR: Case studies: how companies and industries manage CSR;
- Social Reporting and accounting, communicating CSR ;
- Future trends: emerging CSR legislation, shift from corporate responsibility to corporate accountability.
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Literature
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Compulsory:
Crowther, D; Rayman-BacchuS, L. 2016. Perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge;
Sachs, Jeffrey D. 2015. The Age of Sustainable development Columbia University Press;
Coombs, T. W., Holladay S., 2012. Managing corporate social responsibility: a communication approach, Willey- Blackwell;
Gottschalk, P. 2011. Corporate Social Responsibility, Governance And Corporate Reputation. New Jersey : World Scientific;
Fisk, P. 2010. People, planet, profit. Kogan Page Limited.
Recommended:
- Demmerling, T. 2015. Corporate Social Responsibility Overload? Intention, Abuse, Misinterpretation of CSR From the Companies‘ and the Consumers‘ Point of View. Hamburg : Anchor;
- Bradforf, M. et all. 2017. Corporate Sustainability Reporting and Stakeholder Concerns: Is There a Disconnect? 31, 1, 83-102, Mar. 2017. ISSN: 08887993 Accounting Horizons;
- SETHI, SP; ROVENPOR, JL; DEMIR, M. 2017. Enhancing the Quality of Reporting in Corporate Social Responsibility Guidance Documents: The Roles of ISO 26000, Global Reporting Initiative and CSR-Sustainability Monitor (00453609). 122, 2, 139-163, June 2017. ISSN: 00453609 Business & Society Review;
- Christians, C. 2017. Media ethics: Cases and moral reasoning (10th ed.). New York, N.Y. ; London: Routledge.
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Social Responsibility (5 ECTS)
Study load
56 contact hours / 5 ECTS
Aim
Learning outcome
Indicative content
Didactical forms
Assessment
Benchmarking project (60 %) End- term; Short Written projects (40 %) Throughout term
Literature
(indicative)
Compulsory:
Crowther, D; Rayman-BacchuS, L. 2016. Perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge;
Sachs, Jeffrey D. 2015. The Age of Sustainable development Columbia University Press;
Coombs, T. W., Holladay S., 2012. Managing corporate social responsibility: a communication approach, Willey- Blackwell;
Gottschalk, P. 2011. Corporate Social Responsibility, Governance And Corporate Reputation. New Jersey : World Scientific;
Fisk, P. 2010. People, planet, profit. Kogan Page Limited.
Recommended:
Teaching Staff
Audronė Alijošiutė, MBA