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Lehrveranstaltungen

Applied Business Ethics: Current Challenges in Global Value Chains (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Julia Grimm

Inhalt: In this seminar, we will critically examine the role of business firms in human rights violations (such as child slavery, sexual harassment and discrimination amongst others) along and within global value chains. Doing so, we will adopt an organisation and management lens but also draw on contributions in the interdisciplinary field of business ethics to better understand: - Why do these issues exist in the first place? - To which extent are business firms able to take on responsibility? - Which mechanisms can help to tackle these issues? and - Why do certain efforts keep on failing? The seminar is set out to sensitise students as future leaders in organisations on the issues that business firms cause via their daily activities. However, it is also to familiarise students with theories on different levels, zooming into the micro level perspective within organisations as well as zooming out on the macro effects and contexts organisations interact within. Literature will include work on organisational culture and issue-selling, but also institutional theory, framing theory and social movement theory amongst others. We will discuss crucial phenomena such as private governance mechanisms, vertical and horizontal CSR practices and others. Students will develop a teaching case study over the course of the semester - i.e. a story that is ambiguous, full of conflict, complex, tension-building and ending with more questions than answers, leaving the reader with having to take a decision. Students are supposed to collect a small sample of qualitative field data to set up their real-life case story, identify a protagonist and important issues that are unsolved. The course will feature a small workshop on case study writing and allow for time-slots to discuss ideas and work-in-progress.

Corporate Responsibility, Organization & Communication (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Dennis Schoeneborn

Inhalt: The course adopts a managerial perspective to understand the interactions and negotiations between corporations, their stakeholders, and the media (incl. social media) in national and international contexts. The course introduces main theoretical perspectives on CSR that address the business case for CSR and Creating Shared Value, the political theory of the firm, neo-institutional perspectives, critical perspectives, and the transformative role of communication. Drawing on these theoretical perspectives, the course aims to provide students with new insights in various practical areas of CSR, such as, self-regulation standards for sustainability, CSR in global supply chains, how to organize for CSR and how to deal with eruptive crises and scandals in social media. Students will develop over the course of the semester a seminar thesis that follows the format of an academic paper. In the thesis, students will identify and tackle a relevant gap or puzzle in the existing literature on corporate social responsibility. As part of the supervision process, the course will feature workshops that help develop seminar thesis ideas and discuss work-in-progress. More generally, students can benefit from the supervision process as a hands-on training and preparation for their bachelor theses.