Corporate Social Responsibility (MASTER)

- Graduates are familiar with the normative ethical theories, as well as the key challenges of modern management and business practice
- Graduates understand the key challenges in developing and implementing CSR/corporate sustainability projects
- Graduates are able to develop program logic models for CSR/corporate sustainability projects
- Graduates are able to design causal linkage maps for CSR/corporate sustainability projects
- Graduates are able to develop KPIs
- Graduate are able to implement field study tools (questionnaires, interview protocols, experiment designs etc.) for measurement of social, environmental and economic impacts (i.e. social impact analysis, performance measurement)
- Graduates are able to calculate social return on investment (SROI)
- Graduates understand the tensions and dilemmas that managers are facing while trying to simultaneously manage socila, environmental, economic and financial performance (i.e. sustainability trade-offs)
- Graduates demonstrate the ability to provide arguments, make considered decisions, and act in a way that is ethical and socially/environmentally responsible

1. Introduction to corporate social responsibility and corporate sustainability - key concepts, trends and contemporary issues.
2. What do we know about the theories of corporate social responsibility? Normative ethical theories: utilitarianism, deontology, virtue ethics.
3. Project (workshops): identification of a social, environmental or economic issue and development of a real-life CSR/sustainability project for a selected organization or partnership:
- development of of project purpose and goals
- development of program logic models
- development of causal linkage maps,
- development of KPIs for measurement and reporting
- development of methodology to measure and monetize social, environmental and economic impacts
- SROI calculation
4. Project presentations
5. Additional topic: Capital investments and the integration of sustainability risks into investment decisions