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Development, Business & Corporate Social Responsibility

Development, Business & Corporate Social Responsibility. Development, Business & Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). The poor need business to invest in their future. Business needs the poor because they are the future (United Nations Development Programme, 2006) TOPICS:

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Development, Business & Corporate Social Responsibility

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  1. Development, Business & Corporate Social Responsibility

  2. Development, Business &Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) The poor need business to invest in their future. Business needs the poor because they are the future (United Nations Development Programme, 2006) TOPICS: 1 Introduction to the course 2 The Rise of CSR and Business Development 3 Corporate Social Responsibility & the Market 4 Business, Civil Society & the State: Partnerships for Development 5 Rights, Resources & Conflict: CSR and the Extractive Industries 6 Business, Health & Development 7 CSR & Ethical Trade: Producers, Consumers & Labour 8 Margins of the Market: Entrepreneurs & Small Business 9 CSR and its Critics – where next?

  3. Teaching & Assessment • 1 x 1hr Lecture per week • 2 x 2hr Seminar per week • Film series (optional Assessment 5,000 word essay

  4. Films • Week 3 The Corporation (2003, Joel Bakan) • Week 4 The Yes Men (2005, Chris Smith) • Week 5 Up in Smoke (2008, Marty Otanez) • Week 6 Crude: The Real Price of Oil (2009, Joe Berlinger) • Week 7 Not-so-fair-trade (2006, Libby Potter) • Week 8 The World According to Monsanto (2008, Marie-Monique Robin) • Week 9 Walmart – The High Cost of Low Prices(2006, Robert Greenwald)

  5. Key Themes • Partnership and the relationship between states, civil society and business in development • The role of markets in development • CSR, state regulation and voluntarism • Resource wars, multinational business and the impact for development • Labour, production and consumption

  6. Past Dissertations Topics • The Complex Path of Cocoa: Tracing Commodity Trade, New Slavery and Tensions within Fairtrade Initiatives • Business at the Bottom of the Pyramid –The Way to Inclusive Capitalism? The Case of Mobile Phones • Constructing Community Boundaries: The Limitations of CSR for the Health of Mineworkers in South Africa • The Ideal of Innovation in Health: Biomedicines an the Biotechnology Industry – a Socially Responsible Nexus? • Taking the Shine of the Diamond Industry: Is the Kimberley Process Furthering Colonialism • Beating the ‘Climate Crunch’…with your Wallet? The Limitations of Green Consumerism • The Business of Breastfeeding: Development, Market Forces & the Construction of Maternal Identities • Bottling Out: Investigating the relationship between Bottled Water Consumption and the Global Water Crisis • Business, Brands and Symbols: Is ‘Solidarity Consumption’ a Tool for Development?

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