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2018/2019 KAN-CCMVV5033U Corporate Citizenship: Political Responsibility in Theory and Practice
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| Corporate Citizenship: Political Responsibility in Theory and Practice |
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| Language | English |
| Course ECTS | 7.5 ECTS |
| Type | Elective |
| Level | Full Degree Master |
| Duration | One Semester |
| Start time of the course | Autumn |
| Timetable | Course schedule will be posted at calendar.cbs.dk |
| Min. participants | 40 |
| Max. participants | 80 |
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Study Board for MSc in Economics and Business
Administration
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| Last updated on 08-02-2018 | |
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| What does Corporate Citizenship mean; how has its
meaning changed.
How is Corporate Citizenship used in claims and debates about corporate responsibility. What distinguishes political responsibilities from other corporate social responsibilities? What are the arguments for and against corporations undertaking political responsibilities? What issues arise for business and politics when corporations do undertake political responsibilities: i) in democracies and non-democracies ii) at home and abroad iii) in selected issue areas (e.g. defence, taxation, provision of critical infrastructure iv) in selected policy processes (e.g. elections, lobbying, administration. |
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The course will ask what responsibilities does the concept of 'citizienship' bring to corporations? The first half of the Course will critically review the Corporate Citizenship (CC) and Political Responsibility theoretical literatures, particularly to consider the ways in which Corporate Citizenship relates to / differs from the corporate social responsibility theory. It will also include reference to Politial Science literature on the corporate citizenship.
The underlying assumption is that CC brings responsibilties of corporations to the polity - not just to society. It will critically assess the sort of arguments -strengths and weaknesses - that can be deployed for CC.
The second half of the Course will focus on particular issue areas which questions or CC do or potentially apply: e.g. lobbying, taxation, provision of critical infrastructure, and governance responsibility in developing and non-democratic countries.
The Course will enable students to distinguish long-standing arguments for CC from more recent contributions, such as 'Political CSR'. It will also enable students to consider questions about the application of CC in national and international contexts, and in democratic and non-democratic contexts.
Week 1 The Origins of Corporate Citizenship theory Week 2 Citizenship and Business Relationships Week 3 Developments in the Corporate Citizenship / Political CSR theory Week 4 Corporate Citizenship at the National Level (i) Lobbying Week 5 Corporate Citizenship at the National Level (ii) Taxation Week 6 Corporate Citisenship at the National Level (iii) Critical Infrastructure week 7 Corporate Citizenship at the International Level (i) Partnerships for labour rights Week 8 Corporate Citizenship at the International Level (ii) Equality and diversity Week 9 Corporations as citizenship: current issues (e.g. Citizens United case
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| Interactive Lectures based on prior reading
Group exercises in class Debates in class Guest speakers particularly around practice issue areas |
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| Feedback will be given to students after class
exercises and, individually, in office hours.
Following Mid-term evaluation, particular needs for feedback can be identified and responded to. |
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Guest lectures will be delivered by other members of the cbs CSR (e.g. PhD Fellows Erin Leitheiser and Luisa Murphy) and by CSR practitioners.
This course is part of the minor in Sustainable Business
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A Crane, D Matten and J Moon (2008) Corporations and Citizenship Cambridge University Press (this provides framework)
Other readings will be provided many of which also appear in D Matten and J Moon (2013) Corporate Citizenship Edward Elgar (this is a collection of 32 papers which would form the core of the reading list.)
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