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Jeremy Moon, Velux Professor, CBS (DICM, cbsCSR)

Glen Whelan, Research Fellow, CBS (DICM, cbsCSR)

Jean-Pascal Gond, Chair of CSR, Cass Business School, City University London, UK
 

Only registered PhD students can participate in the course.

Applicants are asked to submit a one page document together with the registration indicating the following: ‘Which theories they expect to deploy in their PhD; Why; How; and What difficulties may arise?’

Students who are accepted to the course will be expected to submit a 2,500 word essay on this same question, ‘Which theories they expect to deploy in their PhD; Why; How; and What difficulties may arise?’ by 1st April 2016.  This will also be the basis of their workshop presentation during the course on which they will get feedback from CBS faculty.

It is a precondition for receiving the course diploma that the student attends the whole course.
 

The aim is to strengthen the theoretical understanding and agility of PhD students working in the broad field of corporate social responsibility.  It does not overlap significantly with any of the extant Organization and Management Studies courses, but does at the margin with all of them e.g. organizational, political and communications theoretical perspectives on CSR are included.

The course “Theoretical Perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)” aims at providing research students with an in-depth overview of relevant theoretical frameworks and conceptual paradigms in the broader area of corporate social responsibility (CSR). Students will learn about the theoretical relevance and framing of the concept of CSR and related concepts (e.g. corporate citizenship).

It will provide critical overviews of several key theoretical perspectives and paradigms on CSR.  The Course uses three main modes of learning.  There will be Plenary sessions combining lectures and discussion; Student presentations at which students will receive close feedback on their papers, and Workshops which will involve discussion of the application of these theories and of special topics.

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The Course will be taught in a one week block 25 – 29 April 2016 at Copenhagen Business School.

Day 1
09.00 – 10.30    Welcome and Introduction (JM & J-PG)   
10.30 – 11.00    Break        
11.00 – 12.30    Historical and Theoretical Challenges in CSR? (JM) (Readings: Boswell (1983); Gond and Moon (2012); Kaplan (2014))
12.30 – 13.30    Lunch        
13.30 – 15.00    Student presentations (JM, GW, J-PG) (Readings: Student papers)
15.00 – 15.30    Break        
15.30 – 17.00    Student presentations (JM, GW, J-PG) (Readings: Student papers)
17.00    Reception         

Day 2
09.00 – 10.30    What is a theory / theoretical contribution? (JWM, J-PG) (Readings: Davis (1971) Locke and Golden-Biddle (1997); Welch et al (2011) Whetten (1989))
10.30 – 11.00    Break        
11.00 – 12.30    Student presentations (JM, GW, J-PG) (Readings: Student papers)
12.30 – 13.30    Lunch        
13.30 – 15.00    Ethical approaches to CSR (GW) (Readings: Heath (2006) Zwolinski (2007), Scherer & Palazzo (2006))
15.00 – 15.30    Break        
15.30 – 17.00    Student presentations (JM, GW, J-PG) (Readings: Student papers)

Day 3
09.00 – 10.30    Economic approaches to CSR (JM) (Readings: McWilliams (2014), Kitzmueller and Shimshack (2012))
10.30 – 11.00    Break        
11.00 – 12.30    Workshop: e.g. ethical and economic approaches compared (JM, GW) (Readings: Case study: Economic approaches to ethical issues Whelan 2012)
12.30 – 13.30    Lunch         
13.30 – 15.00    Political approaches to CSR (JM) (Readings: Gond et al (2011) Moon et al (2005); Scherer and Palazzo (2011))
15.00 – 15.30    Break        
15.30 – 17.00    Institutional approaches to CSR (JM) (Readings: Greenwood et al (2010), Matten and Moon (2008); Aguilera et al (2007); Hoffman and Moon (forthcoming))
17.30    Dinner        

Day 4
09.00 – 10.30    Considering multiple paradigms in CSR Theory (J-PG) (Readings: Burrell and Morgan (1979); Gond and Matten (2007); Hassard and Cox (2013))
10.30 – 11.00    Break        
11.00 – 12.30    Workshop: Discussing ontological pluralism in CSR Theory (J-PG, GW) (Readings: Descola (2013a[2005]) Chapters 5, Descola (2013b[2011]))
12.30 – 13.30    Lunch        
13.30 – 15.00    Post-Structural Paradigms (1) – ANT / STS perspectives on CSR (J-PG) (Readings: Bergström & Diedrich (2011), Bled (2010), Law (2008))
15.00 – 15.30    Break        
15.30 – 17.00    Workshop / Special Topic: CSR Metrics and calculative practices (J-PG) (Readings: Callon and Muniesa (2005), Giamporcaro and Gond (2015), Slager, Gond & Moon (2012))

Day 5
09.00 – 10.30    Post-Structural Paradigms (2) – Governmentality (J-PG) (Readings: Spence and Rinaldi (2014), Vallentin and Murillo (2012))
10.30 – 11.00    Break        
11.00 – 12.30    Workshop: CSR and the performativity turn (J-PG) (Readings: Gond, Cabantous, Hardy & Learmonth (2015), Gond & Palazzo (2008), Nyberg & Wright (2015))
12.30 – 13.30    Lunch        
13.30 – 15.00    Importing theories in the CSR field: The case of the Economies of Worth (JM, J-PG) (Readings: Boltanski & Thévenot (1999); Gond., Barin-Cruz, Raufflet & Charron  (2015); Patriotta, Gond & Schultz (2011); Whelan & Gond (2015))
15.00 – 16.00    Feedback and Farewell 

After attending the Course, students should:
•    Be familiar with basic theoretical frameworks related to CSR;
•    Understand the assumptions and implications of the different theories for their own research;
•    Be able to recognize the practical implications of the theories discussed for

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Copenhagen Business School
Porcelænshaven 18 B
2000 Frederiksberg
Room: S.023

Contact PhD Support
Katja Høeg Tingleff
kht.research@cbs.dk
Tel.: +45 38 15 28 39

Please note that your registration is binding after the registration deadline.

In case we receive more registrations for the course than we have places, the registrations will be prioritized in the the following order: Students from Doctoral School of Organisation and Management Studies (OMS), students from other CBS PhD schools, students from other institutions than CBS.