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Professur für Betriebswirtschaftslehre, insb. Unternehmensethik

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Lehre

Applied Business Ethics

Applied Bus. Ethics: 23-31.901.161 Applied Business Ethics
Lehrende Prof. Dr. Dirk Ulrich Gilbert, Anna-Lena Punken + Team
Veranstaltungsart Seminar
Kommentare/Inhalte: The seminar Applied Business Ethics is part of the international MIBAS Summer School of Sustainability taking place from June 20 to July 15, 2016. Our seminar focuses primarily on the relationship between theory and practice in business ethics. The seminar will be held in English, meaning that coursework, presentations and papers will also have to be submitted in English.

Among the potential topics to be covered in this seminar are:

  • The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: State of the Art and Challenges of Human Rights Reporting
  • The Sustainable Development Goals: Redefining the Role of Business in Development?
  • Critical Perspectives on Political CSR: Limits, Potential and Cases
  • Realigning Business & Society through Creating Shared Value?
  • Sharing, Sharing Economy and Value Co-Creation: Concepts, Cases and Critical Analysis
  • The Business Case for Poverty Reduction: Win-Win at the Base-of-the-Pyramid?
  • Sweatshops and their Role in International Value Chains: a Critical Analysis
  • Corruption and Bribery in Emerging Markets: Legal, Political and Cultural Aspects of Corrupt Business Practices
Lernziel: Students will acquire knowledge of theoretical concepts of business ethics (e.g. Shared Value and Political CSR) that will then be applied to practices of international companies. They will be enabled to apply their learnings to specific practical problems and reflect upon the ethical aspects of business behavior.
Vorgehen: Students are required to write a paper and give a presentation to earn credit points. The seminar is thus divided as follows: on June 22, 2016, it will start with a kick-off meeting at which the students will be briefed on the overall subject of the seminar. They will then be allocated individual presentation topics. On July 11, 2016, the groups come together in a second meeting to present and discuss the assigned topics. In the aftermath, the participants will write a short paper.
Literatur: Introductory literature will be provided following the kick-off meeting.
Zusätzliche Hinweise zu Prüfungen The grade is comprised as follows:

50% paper (10-15 pages), 50% group presentation and discussion of findings