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Course
Perspectives on Governance and Sustainable Development

Faculty
  • Jeremy Moon, Professor of Sustainability Governance, Department of Management, Society & Communication, CBS (JM) 
  • Stefano Ponte, Professor International Political Economy, Department of Management, Society & Communication, CBS (SP) 
  • Ben Cashore, Professor Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore & Visiting Professor, Department of MSC, CBS (BC)
  • Erin Leitheiser, Manager, Climate Change at BSR (Business for Social Responsibility, Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of MSC CBS (EL)
  • Andreas Rasche, Professor of Business and Society, Department of Management, Society & Communication, CBS (AR) 
  • Mette Morsing, Director, UN PRME (MM)
  • Caroline Aggestam Pontoppidan, Associate Professor, Department of Accounting, CBS (CAP)  
  • Steen Vallentin, Associate Professor, Department of Management, Society & Communication, Co-Director of CBS Sustainability, CBS (SV) 
  • Andreas Wieland, Associate Professor, Department of Operations Management, CBS (AW) 

Course Coordinator
Jeremy Moon & Stefano Ponte

Prerequisites

Only registered PhD students can participate in the course.   

The course is intended for students undertaking PhDs in social sciences, including business and management studies.   

1) Applicants are asked to submit a one page document indicating the following: ‘What research questions arise in the relationship between governance and sustainable development?’ upon course registration

2) Students who are accepted to the course will be expected to submit a 2,500 word essay on this same question (by 10 September 2021).  This could draw on ideas that they have developed in the course of their PhD or on other encounters with the topic.  This will also be the basis of their workshop presentation during the course on which they will get feedback from other participants (including a nominated discussant) and from the teaching team 

It is a precondition for receiving the course diploma that studentmeet the above deadlines and attend the whole course.  


Aim
The aim is to strengthen the understanding, knowledge and analytical capacity of PhD students working in the broad field of governance and sustainable development.

Course content

The course provides research students with an in-depth overview of relevant frameworks, concepts and approaches to the topic of governance and sustainable development.  It draws on the strengths of the CBS Sustainability Centre and the CBS Centre for Business and Development Studies.  But it will also bring in guest faculty from CBS and beyond.

The course opens with discussion of key evaluative concepts for assessing systems designed to address sustainable development.  The course proceeds by distinguishing and focusing on issues & paradigms and actors in the governance, and by examining the role of business in the governance of sustainable development, in particular.  It will consider new governance institutions (e.g. the Sustainable Development Goals, Cross Sector Partnerships, Multi-Stakeholder Institutions) and approaches (e.g. sustainable supply chains; accounting for sustainability; the circular economy, sustainable finance).  The course will enable critical consideration of different theoretical and policy approaches to the governance of sustainable development. 

There will be an opportunity for students to present their own perspectives and to reflect on what they have learned in the course. There will be an extra-curricular event on education for sustainability.


Teaching style
The Course will be taught in a one week block in 2021 at Copenhagen Business School.  It will consist of presentations and discussions.

Lecture plan

Day 1 - timings

Topic 

Professor 

Readings 

08.30 – 09.00 

Coffee & Tea 

- -

09.00 – 10.30

Welcome & Introductions  

 

Governing sustainable development:  

evaluative perspectives 

JM, SP 

 

SP 

Agyeman (2013) 

Bansal & Song (2017)  

Grabs et al (forthcoming) 

Jackson & Senker (2011) 

Raworth (2012) 

Scoones (2016)  

10.30 – 10.45 

Break 

- -

10.45 – 12.00 

Governing sustainable development:  

issues & paradigms  

SP 

Ponte (2020) Chapter 1 

Voegtlin & Scherer (2017).  

Death (2015) 

Dauvergne (2017) 

Fransen, Schalk, & Auld (2018)  

12.00 – 12.45 

Lunch 

- -

12.45 – 14.15 

Student presentations I 

JM, SP 

-

14.15 – 14.30 

Break 

- -

15.30 – 16.00 

Student presentations II 

JM, SP 

-

 

 

 

 

Day 2 - Timings

Topic 

Professor 

Readings 

08.30 – 09.00 

Coffee & Tea 

-

-

09.00 – 10.15 

Governing sustainable development:  

actors 

JM 

Cashore (2002) 

Kourula, Moon, Salles-Djelic & Wickert (2019)   

Whiteman et al (2013) 

10.15 – 10.30 

Break 

-

-

10.30 – 12.00 

Student presentations III 

JM, SP 

12.00 – 13.00 

Lunch 

 -

13.00 – 14.30 

Student presentations IV 

JM, SP 

 -

14.30 – 14.45 

Break 

 -

 -

14.45 – 16.00 

Business, Power and Sustainability  

SP 

Ponte (2019) Chapters 2 & 3 

18.00 

Optional Social Dinner 

 

 

 

Accounting for Sustainability 

 

  

CAP 

La Torre, Sabelfeld, Blomkvist, Tarquinio & Dumay, (2018) 

O’Dwyer & Unerman (2020) 

Further reading: Adams & Larrinaga (2019) 

Day 3 - Timings

Topic 

Professor 

Readings 

08.30 – 09.00  Coffee & Tea  - -
09.00 – 10.15

Private Authority and Public Policy Interactions

JM 

Abbot KW (2012)

Eberlein et al. (2014)

Cashore, Knudsen, Moon & van der Ven (2021)

10.15 – 10.30 

Break 

 

 

10.30 – 12.00 

Institutions for the  

Governance of Sustainable Development:  

Partnerships & MSIs  

 

Review of first half of the course 

JM 

de Bakker Rasche & Ponte (2019) 

Bartley (2007) 

Rasche, Gwodz, Larson & Moon (2020) 

Sharma, G & Bansal (2017) 

12.00 - 12.45 

Lunch 

 

 

12.45-14.15
14.15- 14.30 

Break 

 

 

14.30 – 16.00 

Sustainable Supply Chains in the Age of Planetary Boundaries 

AW 

Wieland, A. (2021).

 

Day 4 - Timings Topic 

Professor 

Readings 

08.30 – 09.00 

Coffee & Tea 

09.00 – 10.30 

Good governance norms and the policy / problem fit

BC 

To follow

10.30 – 10.45 

Break 

 -

 -

10.45 – 12.15 

The Circular Economy

SV

Corvellec, H. et al. (2020) Völker, T., Kovacic, Z. & Strand, R. (2020) Zwiers, J., Jaeger-Erben, M. & Hofmann, F. (2020)

Kirchherr; J. et al. (2018)

12.15 – 13.00 

Lunch 

 -

 -

13.00 – 14.30 

Corporate Lobbying and CEO Activism

JM

Readings to follow

14.30 – 14.45 

Break 

 -

 -

14.45 – 16.15 

Guest Practitioner presentation

 

 

 

 

 

Day 5 - Timings

Topic 

Professor 

Readings 

08.30 – 09.00 

Coffee & Tea 

-

-

09.00 – 10.15 

Finance and Sustainable Development

AR

Reynolds & Fabian (2020)

10.15 – 10.30 

Break 

-

 -

10.30 – 12.00 

Regulating International Supply Chains: the case of the Bangladesh Ready Garment Industry

EL/JM

Leitheiser (2021)

Other readings to follow

12.00 – 12.45 

Lunch 

-

 -

12.45 – 14.00 

Student presentations on take-aways for own research and feedback

14.00 – 15.00

Can Responsible Management Education Really Encourage Sustainable Development?

MM This is a Big Questions Little Time Webinar sponsored by the CBS Centre for Business & Development Studies and the Sustainability Centre

15.00 - 15.30

Closing and farewell 

JM -

Learning objectives

After participating in the course, the students will be able to: 

  • Critically reflect on different theoretical and empirical perspectives on the governance of sustainable development.
     
     
  • Critically reflect on different specific policy and strategic approaches to sustainable development. 

  • Locate their own PhD. research in the context of wider theories, conceptualizations and debates about governance and sustainable development. 

Exam

Other

Start date
20/09/2021

End date
24/09/2021

Level
PhD

ECTS
5

Language
English

Course Literature

Abbott, K.W. (2012) ‘The transnational regime complex for climate change’ Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 30: 571 - 590

Abbott, K.W., Genschel, P., Snidal, D. & Zangl, B. eds (2015) International Organizations as Orchestrators Cambridge University Press

Adams CA & Larrinaga C (2019) Progress: engaging with organisations in pursuit of improved sustainability accounting and performance, Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, Vol 32

DOI : https://doi.org/10.1108/AAAJ-03-2018-3399

Agyeman, J. Introducing just sustainabilities: Policy, planning, and practice. Zed Books Ltd., 2013, intro and conclusion

Auld, G, Renckens, S & Cashore, B. (2014) ‘Transnational private governance between the logics of empowerment and control’ Regulation and Governance

Bansal, P. & Song, H-C (2017) ‘Similar But Not the Same: Differentiating Corporate Sustainability from Corporate ResponsibilityAcademy of Management Annals 11: 1

Bartley, T (2009) Institutional Emergence in an Era of Globalization: The Rise of Transnational Private Regulation of Labor and Environmental Conditions American Journal of Sociology 113: 2

Carter, Dale S. Rogers, & Thomas Y. Choi (2015), “Toward the Theory of the. Supply Chain,” Journal of Supply Chain Management, Vol. 51 No. 2.

Cashore, B. 2002. Legitimacy and the privatization of environmental governance: How non–state market–driven (NSMD) governance systems gain rule–making authority. Governance, 15, 503-529

Cashore, B., Knudsen, J.S., Moon, J. & van der Ven, H. (2021) ’Private Authority and Public Policy in Global Context: Governance Spheres for Problem Solving’ Regulation and Governance

Chertow, M.R. & Ehrenfeld, J. (2012). Organizing self-organizing systems: toward a theory of industrial symbiosis. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 6, 13-27

De Bakker, F., Rasche, A. & Ponte, S. (2019) 'Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives on Sustainability: A Cross-Disciplinary Review and Research Agenda for Business Ethics’ Business Ethics Quarterly 29: 3.

Dauvergne, P. 2017. Is the power of brand-focused activism rising? The case of tropical deforestation. Journal of Environment & Development, 26, 135-155

Death, C. (2015). Four discourses of the green economy in the global South. Third world quarterly, 36(12), 2207-2224.

Eberlein, B., Abbott, K.W:, Black, J., Meidinger, E: & Wood, S.  (2014) Transnational business governance interactions: Conceptualization and framework for analysis Regulation & Governance 8: 1.

Fransen, L., Schalk, J. & Auld, G. 2018. Community structure and the behavior of transnational sustainability governors: Toward a multi‐relational approach. Regulation & Governance, early view, doi: 10.1111/rego/12185

Grabs, J, Auld, G. & Cashore, B. (forthcoming) ‘Private regulation, public policy, and the perils of adverse ontological selection’ Regulation & Governance doi:10.1111/rego.12354

Jackson, T., & Senker, P. (2011). Prosperity without growth: Economics for a finite planet. Energy & Environment, 22(7), 1013-1016.

Kirchherr; J., Piscicellia, L., Bour, R., Kostense-Smit, E., Muller, J., Huibrechtse-Truijens, A. & Hekkert; M. (2018). Barriers to the Circular Economy: Evidence from the European Union (EU). Ecological Economics, 150, 264-272.

A Kourula, J Moon, M-L, Salles-Djelic, & C Wickert (2019) ‘New Roles Of Governments in the Governance of Business Conduct: Implications for Management and Organizational Research’ Organization Studies 40 (8) 1101–1123

La Torre, M., Sabelfeld,S., Blomkvist, M., Tarquinio, L., & Dumay, J. (2018). Harmonising non-financial reporting regulation in Europe: Practical forces and projections for future research. Meditari Accountancy Research, https://doi.org/10.1108/MEDAR-02-2018-0290

Moore, J. (ed.) 2016. Introduction in Anthropocene or Capitalocene? Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism. Oakland: PM Press.

O’Dwyer, B. & Unerman, J. (2020). Shifting the focus of sustainability accounting from impacts to risks and dependencies: researching the transformative potential of TCFD reporting. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 33 (5), pp. 1113-1141. DOI: 10.1108/AAAJ-02-2020-4445

Ponte, S (2019) Business, Power and Sustainability in a World of Global Value Chains Zed Books

Rasche, A, W Gwozdz, ML Larsen & J Moon (2020) ‘Which firms leave multi‐stakeholder initiatives? An analysis of delistings from the United Nations Global Compact’ Regulation and Governance doi: 10.1111/rego.12322

Raworth, K. 2012. A safe and just space for humanity: Can we live within the doughnut. Oxfam Policy and Practice: Climate Change and Resilience, 8, 1-26

Reynolds, F. & Fabian, N. (2020). The end of the beginning: Next generation responsible investment. In Bril, H., Kell, G., and Rasche, A. (Eds.). Sustainable Investing: A Path to a New Horizon. Routledge: London/New York, pp. 89-107.

Scoones, I. 2016. The Politics of sustainability and development. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 41, 293-319

Sharma, G and Bansal, P (2017) Partners for good: how business and NGOs engage the commercial-social paradox Organization Studies  

Sjåfjell, B. (2018). Redefining the Corporation for a Sustainable New Economy. Journal of Law and Society, 45(1), 29-45.

Sunstein, Cass R. & Lucia A. Reisch (2019). Trusting nudges: Toward a bill of rights for nudging. London: Routledge. (Chapters 1-3 and 8-9)

Voegtlin, C., & Scherer, A. G. (2017). Responsible innovation and the innovation of responsibility: Governing sustainable development in a globalized world. Journal of Business Ethics, 143(2), 227-243.

Whiteman, G. Walker, B. & Perego, P. (2013) Planetary boundaries: foundations for corporate sustainability Journal of Management Studies. 50, 2, p. 307-336 30 p., 50.

Wiedmann, Th., Lenzen, M., Keysser, L.T. & J. Steinberger (2020): Scientists‘ warning on affluence. Nature Communications, 11:3107.

Wieland, A. (2021). Dancing the supply chain: Toward transformative supply chain management. Journal of Supply Chain Management, 57(1), 58-73.

Willett et al. (2019). Food in the Anthropocene: The EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems. Lancet, 393(10170), 447–492.


Fee
DKK 6,500 (covers the course fee, coffee/tea, lunch)

Minimum number of participants
14

Maximum number of participants
15

Location
Copenhagen Business School 
Dalgas Have 
2000 Frederiksberg
Room: DH.V. 2.70 & DH.V. 2.71 (second floor)
All days expcept Tuesday 21 sept)
DHØ 2.71 & 2.73 on Tuesday 21st September. 

Contact information
For administrative issues please contact PhD Support: 
Nina Iversen
ni.research@cbs.dk
Tel: 3815 2475

Registration deadline
09/08/2021

Course registration is binding after the course registration deadline.  

In case we receive more registrations for the course than we have place, the registrations will be prioritized in the following order: Students from CBS departments, students from other institutions than CBS.


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