BOOK PRESENTATION “SOIL, SOUL, SOCIETY” BY SATISH KUMAR

Time: Please, refer to your group’s schedule

Location: Shabolovka, 26-28

Quote of the day:

• “ Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself ” (Erich Fromm)

Agenda:

• Presenting book chapters from “Soil, Soul, Society” by Satish Kumar
• Guided discussion based on the assigned video-materials for the class
• Sharing students’stories on developing professional competencies

HOMEWORK (to be completed before the seminar3 starts):

1. Do the assigned reading available from the Google-Drive:

• Kumar, S. (2013). Soil, Soul, Society: A New Trinity for our Time. Brighton, UK: Leaping Hare Press.

· Prepare group presentations for the book (see instructions in Appendix 2) and upload them to Google-Drive!

2. Watch:

• Documentary “Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret” (2014) produced and directed by Kip Andersen and Keegan Kuhnavailable on DailyMotion (1 hour 30 minutes) and write a one page reflection summarizing the key take-away messages, your thoughts and feelings triggered by the material. Please, upload your reflections before the session starts as a.pdf file with your name to the designated folder on Google-Drive.

3. Develop your professional competencies:

• Find a company’s social network presence (e.g. on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter or YouTube, or corporate blogs), and ask them a question in an ongoing conversation there. If necessary, try it several times until you receive an answer and are able to reply to it. Try to engage others into the conversation.

Session 7 December12-16, 2019

SEMINAR 4.

SUSTAINABILITY AS ACONSCIOUSLIFESTYLE & WAY OF DOING BUSINESS

Quote of the day:

• “ Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy ”. (Kahlil Gigran)

Agenda:

• What is a conscious sustainable lifestyle (e.g. LOHAS, LOVAS, no waste, vegan)?
• Guided discussion based on the assigned readings and video-materials for the class
• Sharing students’ stories on developing professional competencies

HOMEWORK (to be completed before the seminar4 starts):

1. Do the assigned reading available from the Google-Drive:

• Buchel, S., Roorda, C., Schipper, K., Loorbach, D., & Janssen, R. (2018). The Transition to Good Fashion. Rotterdam: Drift for Transition. (45 pages).
• Loorbach, D., &Sem, O. (2018). Counting on Nature. Transitions to a Natural Capital Positive Economy by Creating an Enabling Environment for Natural Capital Approaches. Rotterdam: Drift for Transition. (41 pages).

2. Watch:

• Documentary“The True Cost (Fashion Industry)” (2015)available on OK.ru (1 hour 32 minutes) and write a one page reflection summarizing the key take-away messages, your thoughts and feelings triggered by the material. Please, upload your reflections before the session starts as a.pdf file with your name to the designated folder on Google-Drive.

3. Develop your professional competencies:

· Inform yourself deeply about a lifestyle different than your own (e.g. being a vegetarian or vegan, living a no-waste life, living LOHAS or LOVAS). Organize yourself to lead your life following the principles of this lifestyle for a predetermined period of time. Then do it!

Session 8 December14-19, 2019

SEMINAR 5.

WRAPPING UP &TIPS FOR THE EXAM

Time: Please, refer to your group’ sschedule

Location: Shabolovka, 26-28

Quote of the day:

• TODAY. (Word carved on a stone on John Ruskin's desk)

Agenda:

• Guided discussion based on the assigned readings and video-materials for the class
• Sharing students’ stories on developing professional competencies
• Instructions for the written exam

HOMEWORK (to be completed before the seminar5 starts):

1. Do the assigned reading available from the Google-Drive:

• Ellen MacArthur Foundation. (2019). Cities and Circular Economy for Food. Cowes, UK: Ellen MacArthur Foundation. (73 pages).

2. Watch:

• Documentary “Closing the Loop. About the Circular Economy Revolution” (2019) presented by the global sustainability expert Prof. Dr. Wayne Visser, in collaboration with Emmy and two time Telly Award winning director Graham Ehlers Sheldon available on YouTube (1 hour 33 minutes) and write a one page reflection summarizing the key take-away messages, your thoughts and feelings triggered by the material. Please, upload your reflections before the session starts as a.pdf file with your name to the designated folder on Google-Drive.

3. Develop your professional competencies:

· Write a short description of a responsible business practice that has inspired you and publish it through a social network (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc.). Try to formulate a message in a way that inspires others to take similar actions.

V. Reading List

A. Assigned readings

· Buchel, S., Roorda, C., Schipper, K., Loorbach, D., & Janssen, R. (2018). The Transition to Good Fashion. Rotterdam: Drift for Transition.

· Ellen MacArthur Foundation. (2019). Cities and Circular Economy for Food. Cowes, UK: Ellen MacArthur Foundation.

· IPCC, 2014: Climate Change 2014: Synthesis Report. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Core Writing Team, R.K. Pachauri and L.A. Meyer (eds.)]. IPCC, Geneva, Switzerland.

· Kumar, S. (2013). Soil, Soul, Society: A New Trinity for our Time. Brighton, UK: Leaping Hare Press.

· Loorbach, D., &Sem, O. (2018). Counting on Nature. Transitions to a Natural Capital Positive Economy by Creating an Enabling Environment for Natural Capital Approaches. Rotterdam: Drift for Transition.

B. Recommended readings

· Ackerman, B., &Alstott, A. (1999). The Stakeholder Society. New Haven: Yale University Press.

· Anderson, R. C., & White, R. (2009). Confessions of a Radical Industrialist: Profits, People, Purpose - Doing Business by Respecting the Earth: St. Martin's Press.

· Andriof, J., Waddock, S., & Rahman, S. S. (2002). Unfolding Stakeholder Thinking: Theory, Responsibility and Engagement. Sheffield: Greenleaf Publishing.

· Baker, R. W. (2005). Capitalism's Achilles Heel: Dirty Money and How to Renew the Free-Market System. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons.

· Blagov, Y., &Sobolev, I. (Eds.). (2014). The Report on Social Investments in Russia 2014: Creating Shared Value for Business and Society. St. Petersburg: ATM.

· Blagov, Y., Litovchenko, S., &Ivanova, E. (Eds.). (2008). The Report on Social Investments in Russia: Integrating CSR Principles into Corporate Strategy. Moscow: The Russian Managers Association.

· Brundtland, G., Khalid, M., Agnelli, S., Al-Athel, S., Chidzero, B., Fadika, L.,... de Botero, M. M. (1987). Our Common Future (Brundtland Report). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

· Carroll, A. B. (1991). The Pyramid of Corporate Social Responsibility: Toward the Moral Management of Organizational Stakeholders. Business Horizons, 34(4), 39-48. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0007-6813(91)90005-G

· Carroll, A. B. (1999). Corporate Social Responsibility: Evolution of a Definitional Construct. Business & Society, 38(3), 268-295. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000765039903800303

· Ceschin, F., &Gaziulusoy, I. (2016). Evolution of Design for Sustainability: From Product Design to Design for System Innovations and Transitions. Design Studies, 47, 118-163.

· Clarkson, M. E. (1995). A Stakeholder Framework for Analyzing and Evaluating Corporate Social Performance. Academy of Management Review, 20(1), 92-117. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/amr.1995.9503271994

· Clinton, L., &Whisnant, R. (2019). Business Model Innovations for Sustainability In Managing Sustainable Business (pp. 467-507): Springer.

· Cummings, J. L., &Doh, J. P. (2000). Identifying Who Matters: Mapping Key Players in Multiple Environments. California Management Review, 42(2), 83-104.

· De Woot, P. (2014). Rethinking the Enterprise: Competitiveness, Technology and Society. Sheffield, UK: Greenleaf Publishing.

· Freeman, R. E. (1984). Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach. Boston: Pitman.

· Friedman, M. (1970). The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits, New York Times, pp. 122-126.

· Gore, A. (2006). An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do about It. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.

· Hawken, P. (1993). The Ecology of Commerce: a Declaration of Sustainability. New York, NY: Harper Business.

· Henriques, A., & Richardson, J. (2004). The Triple Bottom Line: Does It All Add Up? Assessing the Sustainability of Business and CSR. London: Earthscan.

· Jones, T. M. (1995). Instrumental Stakeholder Theory: A Synthesis of Ethics and Economics. Academy of Management Review, 20(2), 404-437. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/amr.1995.9507312924

· Jonker, J. (2005). CSR Wonderland: Navigating between Movement, Community and Organisation. The Journal of Corporate Citizenship(20), 19-22.

· Kolk, A. (2016). The Social Responsibility of International Business: From Ethics and the Environment to CSR and Sustainable Development. Journal of World Business, 51(1), 23-34. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2015.08.010

· Laszlo, C. (2003). The Sustainable Company: How to Create Lasting Value through Social and Environmental Performance. Washington, DC: Island Press.

· Laszlo, C., &Zhexembayeva, N. (2011). Embedded Sustainability: The Next Big Competitive Advantage. Stanford, CA: Stanford Business Books.

· Lee, M.-D. 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. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2370.2007.00226.x

· Litovchenko, S. (Ed.). (2004). The Report on Social Investments in Russia: The Role of Business in Social Development. Moscow: The Russian Managers Association.

· Meadows, D. H., Meadows, D. L., Randers, J., & Behrens, W. W. (1972). The Limits to Growth (Vol.). New York, NY.

· Mitchell, R. K., Agle, B. R., & Wood, D. J. (1997). Toward a Theory of Stakeholder Identification and Salience: Defining the Principle of Who and What Really Counts. Academy of Management Review, 22(4), 853-886.

· Nair, C. (2011). Consumptionomics: Asia’s Role in Reshaping Capitalism and Saving the Planet. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons (Asia).

· Nidumolu, R., Prahalad, C. K., &Rangaswami, M. R. (2009). Why Sustainability is Now the Key Driver of Innovation. HarvardBusinessReview, 87 (9), 56-64.

· Pauli, G. (2010). The Blue Economy: 10 Years, 100 Innovations, 100 Million Jobs. Taos, NewMexico, USA: ParadigmPublications.

· Pauli, G. (2017). The Blue Economy 3.0: The Marriage of Science, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Creates a New Business Model that Transforms Society. Sydney: Xlibris.

· Pedersen, E. R. (2006). Making Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Operable: How Companies Translate Stakeholder Dialogue into Practice. Business and Society Review, 111(2), 137-163. doi: http://10.1111/j.1467-8594.2006.00265.x

· Phillips, R., Freeman, R. E., & Wicks, A. C. (2003). What Stakeholder Theory is Not. Business Ethics Quarterly, 13(04), 479-502. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/beq200313434

· Porritt, J. (2007). Capitalism: As if the World Matters. London: Earthscan.

· Rasche, A. (2011). ‘A Necessary Supplement’ – What the United Nations Global Compact Is (and Is Not). In K. Buhmann, L. Roseberry & M. Morsing (Eds.), Corporate Social and Human Rights Responsibilities: Global Legal and Management Perspectives (pp. 52-76). London: Palgrave Macmillan UK.

· Rose, J. M. (2007). Corporate Directors and Social Responsibility: Ethics versus Shareholder Value. Journal of Business Ethics, 73(3), 319–331.

· Rowley, T. J. (1997). Moving Beyond Dyadic Ties: A Network Theory of Stakeholder Influences. Academy of Management Review, 22(4), 887-910. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/amr.1997.9711022107

· Schmidheiny, S. (1992). Changing Course: A Global Business Perspective on Development and the Environment. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

· Steger, M. B. (2003). Globalization: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

· Sternad, D., Kennelly, J., & Bradley, F. (2016). Digging Deeper. How Purpose-Driven Enterprises Create Real Value. Salt Mill, UK: Greenleaf Publishing.

· The Economist. (2008). Just Good Business: A Special Report on Corporate Social Responsibility. The Economist, 386, 1-24.

· Wood, D. J. (1991). Corporate Social Performance Revisited. Academy of Management Review, 16(4), 691-718. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/amr.1991.4279616

C. Internet resources

· Ashoka

· Change.org

· CircleLab

· The Skoll Foundation

· Sustainability Good Reads

· Sustainable Development Goals

· EarthSayers Voices of Sustainability

· International Humanistic Management Association

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VI. Grading System

Final grades will reflect overall performance in the class (both lectures and seminars), including engagement in classroom discussion, performance on individual and group assignments and presentation offindings. Since class discussions are an integral part of the course attendance is mandatory. The percentage weights used in calculating course grades are as follows:

Late work is not tolerated in this course and if happens is reduced by the following amounts:

With the exception of technical errors, there will be no change of grades after posting.

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