Corporate Sustainability

sustainability@tu-dresden.de (Please use your TUD address if you contact our office)

Lecturer: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Samanthi Dijkstra-Silva

Course language: English

Module number:

MA-WW-BWL-0228
D-WW-WIWI-0228

Time and room:

Monday (Lecture): 13.00-14.30; SCH A185/U

Tuesday (Discussion – please prepare): 16:40 – 18:10; virtual

In the course “corporate sustainability“, students are challenged to create a pitch for a successful corporation regarding their approach to corporate sustainability. Throughout this simulation, students advance ideas through the different themes. After introducing sustainability, the course will explore strategies for corporate sustainability as well as tactics and operations.

The course explores the sustainable development goals (SDGs; developed by politics), planetary boundaries (developed by research) and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development’s vision 2050 (developed by business) as different international sustainability frameworks that could be used as guidance for a company’s approach to corporate sustainability. Therefore, the seminar draws on concepts of the sustainability science literature (e.g. IPCC 2014; Rockström et al. 2009), but also sustainability oriented management literature (Clift et al. 2017; Whiteman et al. 2013; Häyhä et al. 2016) and polices (e.g. SDGs etc.) and applies these to a practice example. To channel the debate, students are asked to go back to the foundations of stakeholder theory and apply it to corporate sustainability (Parmar et al. 2010; Schaltegger et al. 2017).

Further details: See course syllabus