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| Language |
English |
| Course ECTS |
7.5 ECTS |
| Type |
Elective |
| Level |
Full Degree Master |
| Duration |
One Quarter |
| Start time of the course |
Second Quarter |
| Timetable |
Course schedule will be posted at
calendar.cbs.dk |
| Max. participants |
60 |
| Study board |
Study Board for MSc in Economics and Business
Administration
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| Course
coordinator |
- Martin Skrydstrup - Department of Management, Society and
Communication (MSC)
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| This elective course
is one of three courses, which supplement each other and form an
integrated curriculum for the Minor in Circular Economy. However,
students may also opt to take this elective independently of the
other two courses in circular economy, which constitute the
minor. |
| Main academic
disciplines |
- Corporate governance
- CSR and sustainability
- Sociology
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| Teaching
methods |
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Last updated on
11-02-2022
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| Learning objectives |
To achieve the grade 12, students should meet the
following learning objectives with no or only minor mistakes:
- Map different concepts of circularity according to different
schools of thought, organizational forms and modes of benchmarking
and summarize their contestations in academic debates and public
debacles.
- Account for, and critically reflect upon, how valuation matter
for circular economies.
- Explain the different approaches to governing circularity and
critically assess their scalability and replicability across
organizational forms and spatial scales.
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| Examination |
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Circular
Economies for Sustainability:
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| Exam
ECTS |
7,5 |
| Examination form |
Written sit-in exam on CBS'
computers |
| Individual or group exam |
Individual exam |
| Assignment type |
Case based assignment |
| Duration |
4 hours |
| Grading scale |
7-point grading scale |
| Examiner(s) |
One internal examiner |
| Exam period |
Winter |
| Aids |
Open book: all written and electronic aids,
including internet access
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| Make-up exam/re-exam |
Same examination form as the ordinary exam
If the number of registered candidates for the make-up
examination/re-take examination warrants that it may most
appropriately be held as an oral examination, the programme office
will inform the students that the make-up examination/re-take
examination will be held as an oral examination
instead.
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| Course content, structure and pedagogical
approach |
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Course content and structure
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The concept of the circular economy (CE) has been proposed as
the panacea for addressing the predicaments of climate change. By
moving from open linear supply chains to closed circuits within
inter-organizational networks, the promise is that CE would
transform the global economy from the current take-make-waste
paradigme to novel forms of secondary resource flows, which retain
value in closed loops without leaks.
This would elimiate waste altogher and reinvent how
we produce and consume from the ground up. This course offers
critical insights into the how, the what and the
why of this grand idea called the CE.
Attracting increased attention from businesses, governments and
civil society, the CE is an emerging field of study. This course
presents the leading minds and the frontiers of CE. While the
course will introduce advanced analytical approaches to
circularity, it is strongly case based. The aim is to equip
students with a conceptual tool kit to better understand why
leading corporations and major cities have pledged their
commitment to the circular economy. Going beyond the CE as
operational cost reduction, strategic differentiation and corporate
branding, the course introduces CE as an object of
governance; CE & accountability; CE as alternative to
mainstream consumerism; and CE as part of the
transition/transformation to sustainability. These are some of the
lead themes you need to command to assess circular start-ups,
advise executive boards and municipalities regarding their
aspirations to CE and/or launch your own circular venture.
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| Description of the teaching methods |
In the virtual classroom, teaching and learning
is organized around live interactive lectures, guest speakers
(tba), case work, student presentations and discussions. Instructor
feedback is provided on those activities.
The classes will feature peer and group exercises in break-out
sessions on Zoom for discussions in smaller forums, combined with
student group presentations in plenary. The exercises will revolve
around the mapping of circular concepts, evaluation of circular
strategies, and accounting for - and critically reflecting on -
various approaches to the circular economy. These exercises are
designed to prepare the students for the final exam. |
| Feedback during the teaching period |
| Feedback is a critical part of the class and will
be provided in connection with group presentations and case work,
as well as in the form of peer-to-peer evaluation. |
| Student workload |
| Participation in lectures |
33 hours |
| Preparation for classes, assignments & exercises |
149 hours |
| Exam preparations |
24 hours |
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| Further Information |
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The course is strongly aligned and in fact comes right out of
our Nordic Nine strategy, in so far the class cultivates the
relationships between knowledge, values and interventions as
practice and entrepreneurship akin to our new strategy.
Students build knowledge about the what of the
circular economy and apply their acquired conceptual tools to
critically assess interventions in the name of circularity and
sustainability. This skillset aligns with "business knowledge
placed in a broad context" ; "analytical rigor and
curiosity"; and last but certainly not least "planetary
challenges and the entrepreneurial mindset to tackle
them".
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| Expected literature |
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The primary literature for the course will be a collection of
research articles published in the leading scholarly journals,
supplemented with case studies. The specific selection of
these articles will be introduced in the first class. Below,
you will find a tentative list of reference literature, which
informs the course as frame of reference/background
literature.
Reference literature (subject to change)
- Roberta De Angelis (2018) Business Models in the Circular
Economy: Concepts, Examples and Theory. Palgrave.
- Mika Sillanpää & Chaker Ncibi (2019) The Circular
Economy: Case Studies about the Transition from the Linear
Economy. Academic Press, London.
- Catherine Weetman (2020) A Circular Economy Handbook for
Business and Supply Chains
- Terry Tudor & Cleber Dutra (2020) The Routledge
Handbook of Waste, Resources and the Circular Economy.
Routledge, London.
- Brandao, Lazarevic & Finnverden (2020) Handbook of the
Circular Economy. Edward Elgar Publishing. Cheltenham,
UK.
- E. Worrell and Reuter Waltham editors (2014) Handbook of
Recycling: State-of-the-art for practitioners, analysts, and
scientists. MA, USA, Elsevier.
- Michael Braungart & William McDonough From Cradle to
Cradle: Re-Making the Way We Make Things (Vintage: [1988]
2009)
- Ellen MacArthur Full Circle: My life and Journey
(Michael Joseph: 2010)
- Ken Webster (2017). The circular economy – A wealth of
flows (Ellen MacArthur Foundation Publishing, 2nd Edition:
2017)
- Walter R. Stahel The Circular Economy: A User’s Guide
(Routledge: 2019)
- Peter Lacy & Jakob Rutqvist Waste to Wealth: The
Circular Economy Advantage (Palgrave: 2015)
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