Course Title:
From Corporate Social Responsibility
to Strategic Social Innovation?
Faculty:
Copenhagen Business School
Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (cbsCSR)
Course coordinator:
Kai Hockerts, Copenhagen Business School (CBS)
Lecturers:
Andrew Kakabadse, Professor of International Management
Development, Cranfield University, School of Management
Nada Kakabadse, Professor in Management and Business
Research at the University of Northampton, Business School
Steen Vallentin, Copenhagen Business School (CBS)
Mette Morsing, Copenhagen Business School (CBS)
Prerequisite:
Students must be currently enrolled in a doctoral program and must be formally enrolled in this course. Extensive readings, presence for all hours of all days of the class, and active discussion participation are expected of all enrolled students. (Students who must leave at 4 p.m. for day care are automatically excused from the last hour of the class).
Professors Hockerts will assign some students roles as discussion co-leader or research presenter. All students are requested to submit a brief one page abstract of the thesis proposal as well as a draft for a paper that they are considering submitting to a journal. The latter will be used in the feed-back session.
Aim of the course:
In the world of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) we are seeing a move from what might be termed operational CSR towards a more strategic vision of CSR in which Social Innovation plays a key role. It is the intention of this PhD workshop to bring together doctoral students from different disciplinary backgrounds to help understand each others' research approaches and to explore commonalities as well as differences in their work. The four day workshop will use topical lectures as well as feed-back on individual thesis projects in small groups. Furthermore, there will be sessions on research methodology and publication strategy.
Course content:
Course enrolment
Deadline for enrolment is 15 September 2008. Interested PhD students are requested to fill in a registration form which - along with further information about the seminar - can be requested from the course organizer Kai Hockerts (kho.ikl@cbs.dk).
Participation Fee
The participation fee of 750 Euro (exact cost to be confirmed depending on the number of participants) includes a light lunch all 4 days, refreshments, readings and a welcome dinner on the first evening. Please note that the price does not include transportation and accommodation. Further information will be forwarded by e-mail upon registration.
Credits
5 ECTS
Readings
Readings for each day will be made available electronically prior to the class. Participants are requested to come prepared to the seminar.
Schedule
Tuesday 30 September (Day 1)
9:00 Welcome and Introduction to the Seminar /
Brief Presentation of all participants and their projects
Kai Hockerts, Copenhagen Business School (CBS)
10:00 Policy makers as Drivers of Strategic CSR Innovation
Results from European Research so far
Steen Vallentin, Associate Professor, Copenhagen Business School (CBS)
11:30 Break
11:45 Discussion
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Learnings from Corporate Governance for the CSR Debate
Andrew Kakabadse, Professor, Cranfield School of Management
15:30 Break
16:00 Discussion
17:00 End
20:00 Welcome Dinner
Wednesday 1 October (Day 2)
9:00 From Social Responsibility to Social Innovation
The Emerging Field of Social Entrepreneurship
Kai Hockerts, Associate Professor, Copenhagen Business School (CBS)
10:30 Break
10:45 Discussion
12:00 Lunch
14:00 Approaches to Stakeholder Communication
Mette Morsing, Professor, Copenhagen Business School
15:30 Break
16:00 Discussion
17:00 End
Thursday 2 October (Day 3)
9:00 Individual Feed-back on Papers / Thesis Proposals
Group work (4 students + 1 senior faculty per group)
- Andrew Kakabadse
- Nada Kakabadse
- Steen Vallentin
- Mette Morsing
- Kai Hockerts
12:00 Lunch
14:00 Research Methodology: Considerations for CSR Research
Nada Kakabadse, Professor in Management and Business
Research at the University of Northampton, Business School
15:30 Break
16:00 Discussion
17:00 End of Day 3
Friday 3 October (Day 4)
9:00 Editor's Perspective: Publishing CSR Research in Mainstream Journals
Paper Submission, Review Process and Publication
Nicolai Foss, Professor, Director, Center for Strategic
Management and Globalization, CBS (tbc)
10:30 Break
11:00 Developing an international Publication Strategy
N.N. (tbd)
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Learning how to Review
Kai Hockerts, Associate Professor, Copenhagen Business School (CBS)
15:30 Break
16:00 Work Group: Participants will prepare action plans based on learnings
form the class and present back to the group
17:00 End of Ph.D. Workshop