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This course provides a basic understanding of how environmental and social issues translate into stakeholder, market and regulatory pressures and, ultimately, make companies adopt sustainability management practices.
Goals
- Systematically understand drivers and barriers for sustainability management
- Develop knowledge about various approaches and tools to implement sustainability management practices in organisations
- Understand the implications of corporate sustainability practices on the entire value chain and the industry/market
Course-Id
590.012
Lecturer
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Erik G. Hansen
Mag.a Dr.in Daniela Schrack
Cycle
Winter & Summer
Contents
- Environmental and social pressures
- UN Sustainable Development Goals
- Stakeholder management
- Business case for sustainability
- Basic environmental strategies: efficiency, consistency and sufficiency
- Sustainability management in a circular economy
- Product life-cycle management
- Environmental and quality management systems
- From managing the status quo to innovation
- Collaboration across the value chain (e.g. design for recycling)
- Co-evolution between market incumbents and pioneers
Language
German & English
Teaching methods
- Lectures and discussions
- Practitioner presentation/site visit
Assessment and Grading
- Exam
- Exercises
Basic Literature
Schaltegger, S., Lüdeke-Freund, F., & Hansen, E. G. (2012). Business cases for sustainability: the role of business model innovation for corporate sustainability. International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development, 6(2), 95–119.
Marcus, J., Kurucz, E. C., & Colbert, B. A. (2010). Conceptions of the Business-Society-Nature Interface: Implications for Management Scholarship. Business & Society, 49(3), 402–438.
Hockerts, K., & Wüstenhagen, R. (2010). Greening Goliaths versus emerging Davids — Theorizing about the role of incumbents and new entrants in sustainable entrepreneurship. Journal of Business Venturing, 25(5), 481–492.
Mitchell, R. K., Agle, B. R., & Wood, D. J. (1997). Toward a Theory of Stakeholder Identification and Salience: Defining the Principle of Who and What Really Counts. Academy of Management Review, 22(4), 853–886.
Spitzeck, H., & Hansen, E. G. (2010). Stakeholder Governance – How do stakeholders influence corporate decision-making? Corporate Governance: International Journal of Business in Society, 10(4), 378–391.
