Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): business and state

Master 2024/2025

Type: Elective course (Politics. Economics. Philosophy)

Area of studies: Political Science

Delivered by: School of Politics and Governance

Where: Faculty of Social Sciences

When: 2 year, 1, 2 module

Mode of studies: offline

Open to: students of one campus

Instructors: Stanislav Myasnikov

Master’s programme: Политика. Экономика. Философия

Language: English

ECTS credits: 6

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Abstract

The purpose of this course is to provide students with knowledge of how Corporate Social Responsibility became an important instrument for modern companies. Now it affects social (including charity) and labor conditions both for workers and the citizens of the country. Business and the state have options to cooperate in CSR projects which build a framework for formal and informal linkages between companies, state, and society.The course discusses modern CSR strategies and analyses cases, as well as models of standardization and reporting on companies’ sustainability.

Learning Objectives

To provide understanding of what is CSR
To provide students with understanding of new sustainable strategies
To make students able to analyse CSR strategies
To provide examples of State and Business partnerships in framework of CSR
To provide understanding of CSR theories

Expected Learning Outcomes

Understands the role of different concepts and approaches to CSR
Learn how to distinguish between different CSR concepts
Able to understand different sustainable strategies
Able to understand relevant ESG trends
Able to understand sustainable reporting standards
Able to understand different approaches to CSR
Able to build CSR communication strategies

Course Contents

CSR preface and theory
Business impacts: industrialisation, neoliberalism, globalisation
Sustainable business strategies
ESG
Sustainable reporting standards
Western and Russian models of CSR
CSR efficiency, process, and remboursement indicators
Technologies of sustainable programms realisation (social, ecological)
Communication and challenges of CSR
CSR and governmental regulations
CSR for small and middle enterprises
Case analysis

Assessment Elements

Seminar Activity
Final group project
Test

Interim Assessment

2024/2025 2nd module
0.3 * Final group project + 0.4 * Seminar Activity + 0.3 * Test

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

Corporate social responsibility : readings and cases in a global context, , 2008
Corporate social responsibility across Europe, , 2005
Corporate social responsibility and urban development : lessons from the South, Werna, E., 2009
Corporate social responsibility in the 21st century : debates, models and practices across government, law and business, Horrigan, B., 2010
Corporate social responsibility vs. government regulation: institutional analysis with an applica..., Polishchuk, L., 2009
Corporate Social Responsibility: (Elements in Business Strategy). (2019). Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsnar&AN=edsnar.oai.research.vu.nl.publications.ef42ba08.0a1f.4601.ac2a.c85776af15de
Henry, L. A., Nysten-Haarala, S., Tulaeva, S., & Tysiachniouk, M. (2016). Corporate Social Responsibility and the Oil Industry in the Russian Arctic: Global Norms and Neo-Paternalism. Europe-Asia Studies, 68(8), 1340–1368. https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2016.1233523
Idowu, S. O., Vertigans, S., & Schiopoiu Burlea, A. (2017). Corporate Social Responsibility in Times of Crisis : Practices and Cases From Europe, Africa and the World. Cham: Springer. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1495335
Jenkins, H. (2009). A ‘business opportunity’ model of corporate social responsibility for small- and medium-sized enterprises. Business Ethics: A European Review, 18(1), 21–36. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8608.2009.01546.x
Kolk, A. (2016). The social responsibility of international business: From ethics and the environment to CSR and sustainable development. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2015.08.010
Kolk, A. (2016). The social responsibility of international business: From ethics and the environment to CSR and sustainable development. Journal of World Business, (1), 23. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsrep&AN=edsrep.a.eee.worbus.v51y2016i1p23.34
Lee, M. P. (2008). A review of the theories of corporate social responsibility: Its evolutionary path and the road ahead. International Journal of Management Reviews, 10(1), 53–73. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2370.2007.00226.x
Morsing, M., & Schultz, M. (2006). Corporate social responsibility communication: stakeholder information, response and involvement strategies. Business Ethics: A European Review, 15(4), 323–338. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8608.2006.00460.x
PEDERSEN, E. R. (2006). Making Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Operable: How Companies Translate Stakeholder Dialogue into Practice. Business & Society Review (00453609), 111(2), 137–163. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8594.2006.00265.x
Reinhardt, F. L., Stavins, R. N., & Vietor, R. H. K. (2008). Corporate Social Responsibility Through an Economic Lens. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.DBA5307A
The social responsibility of international business: From ethics and the environment to CSR and sustainable development. (2016). Journal of World Business, 51(1), 23–34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2015.08.010
Vargas, M. J. (2018). In Defense of E. Merrick Dodd: Corporate Social Responsibility in Modern Corporate Law and Investment Strategy. Business Lawyer, 73(2), 337–374. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=bsu&AN=129361495
Veronika Bashtovaya. (2014). CSR reporting in the United States and Russia. Social Responsibility Journal, (1), 68. https://doi.org/10.1108/SRJ-11-2012-0150?utm_campaign=RePEc&WT.mc_id=RePEc

Recommended Additional Bibliography

Corporate social responsibility : doing the most good for your company and your cause, Kotler, P., 2005
Corporate social responsibility : the role of business in sustainable development, Williams, O. F., 2014
Corporate social responsibility in contemporary China, Zhao, J., 2014

Authors

MYASNIKOV STANISLAV ALEKSANDROVICH

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