wir902 - Perspectives and Instruments of Corporate Sustainability (Complete module description)

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- Knowledge on the basic concepts and strategies of sustainability management related to corporate practice: * Sustainability: Basic concepts, strategies, * Domestic and international challenges for business, * Business case for sustainable development, * Integrative concepts of sustainable corporations, * Sustainable strategies, * Management instruments - Discussing topics of international sustainability management with students from different scientific disciplines. - Ability to present and evaluate different concepts and instruments of international sustainability management

This module consists of a one lecture and one seminar (2 weekly contact hours per lecture/seminar) dealing with basic concepts and strategies of sustainability management within corporations. Both, lecture and seminar give an overview of current sustainability strategies for companies and present a variety of instruments to integrate and initiate sustainable development within corporations. While the lecture focuses more on theoretical approaches and introduces basic concepts of corporate sustainability management, the seminar provides a variety of case studies and business cases to demonstrate different concepts and instruments of sustainability management. The seminar provides the possibilities for inter- and transdisciplinary exchange and discussions.

BMU/BDI (Eds.) 2002: Sustainability Management in Business Enterprises. CSM, University of Lueneburg (Schaltegger, Herzig, Kleiber, Müller), http://www2.leuphana.de/umanagement/csm/content/nama/downloads/pdf-dateien/nmu_fs_engl_final.pdf Charter, Martin/Tischner, Ursula (Eds.) (2001): Sustainable Solutions, Developing Products and Services for the Future, Sheffield: Greenleaf; Board on Sustainable Development of the National Research Council, 1999 Our Common Journey: A Transition Toward Sustainability. Washington D.C.: National Academy Press; Dyllick, Thomas, and Kay Hockerts, 2002 "Beyond the Business Case for Corporate Sustainability." Business Strategy and the Environment, 2002: 130-141; Gladwin, T., et al., 1995 "Shifting paradigms for sustainable development: Implications for management theory and research." Academy of Management Review, 20: 874 - 907; Hart, Stuart, 1997 "Strategies for a sustainable world." Harvard Business Review, January-February 1997: 67-76; Holliday, Charles O., et al., 2002 Walking the Talk. The Business Case for Sustainable Development. Sheffield: Greenleaf; Hutchinson, Andrew, and Frances Hutchinson, 1997 Environmental Business Management: Sustainable Development in the New Millennium. London u.a.: McGraw-Hill. Shrivastava, Paul, and Stuart L. Hart, 1995 "Creating sustainable corporations." Business Strategyandthe Environment 1995: 154 165.

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