Transcript of Development, Business & Corporate Social Responsibility.
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- Development, Business & Corporate Social
Responsibility
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- 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: 1Introduction to the course
2The Rise of CSR and Business Development 3Corporate Social
Responsibility & the Market 4Business, Civil Society & the
State: Partnerships for Development 5 Rights, Resources &
Conflict: CSR and the Extractive Industries 6Business, Health &
Development 7CSR & Ethical Trade: Producers, Consumers &
Labour 8 Margins of the Market: Entrepreneurs & Small Business
9 CSR and its Critics where next?
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- Teaching & Assessment 1 x 1hr Lecture per week 2 x 2hr
Seminar per week Film series (optional Assessment 5,000 word
essay
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- 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)
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- 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
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- 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 Crunchwith 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?