Hi Aarti...
Check out Sustainable Strategic Management (2004) by ME Sharpe. We wrote it as a supplement for professors of strategic management who want to integrate the concept of sustainability into their course.
Jean Stead
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From: Organizations and the Natural Environment Discussion on behalf of
roome@FSW.EUR.NL
Sent: Mon 9/25/2006 5:42 AM
To:
ONE-L@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
Subject: Re: Dr Raveendra Nayak---Sustainability and Strategic Management
Dear Aarti,
following your request for material/readings for your BA students.
My suggestion is that you should not worry about frightening them with
ideas. The world afterall is a complex place and they should be prepared
to discuss that complexity. Indeed they will thank you for that.
I too teach a 24 hour BA course in Critical Studies of Business in a
Social Context to year three BA student. There are over 150 in the class
so it is not a small intense group by any means. In addition to
conceptual material, a couple of cases and a multi-stakeholder role play
game around the international cocoa suply-chain I use a reading pack.
One of the key first readings is Igor Ansoff (from strategy and his work
in the late 1970s early 1980s) and in the book by Shendel and Hoffer. I
don't know if you know this but he looked forward in time to anticipate
the past and then future shape of the strategic problem. Recognising he
was talking from the vantage point of 1980!
The value of this work is that provides a history of strategic management
as well as looking forward to the present time around 2000.
You might like to try this.
I also do a thought exercise with them in which I try to get them to think
about a factory of 1956 and one today 2006 and what is different in the
factory, the markets and the social setting of the fzactory between then
and now.
This gives an opportunity to talk about the changing social and economic
milieu, as a backdrop to strategy. Later in the course I do the same
thought exercise but considering 2006 as the starting point with 2056 as
the end point.
The core idea is that many of them will be working for much of this
period. They are 20-22 years old now and might expect to work until the
year 2050. I tell them that I need them to do a good job during their
careers to ensure I have a good and enjoyable retirement!!!! It seems
they rarely think about trends over time as they have such short time
lines and so relatively little experience.
Overall my suggestion is to try to encourage your students to think about
how the world (around business) has changed and is changing and what
factros are involved. The question then is to what extent strategic
management has responded to those changes.
If you want further information let me know.
Kindest regards and best of luck,
Nigel Roome
Daniel Janssen Chair of Corportae Social Responsibility,
Solvay Busienss School
Free University Brussel
> Hello Aarti
>
> My PhD thesis titled "Developing Sustainable Corporations in Australia",
> which is available online at
>
http://adt.lib.swin.edu.au/public/adt-VSWT20060320.110540/index.html is
> useful to your course.
>
> Regards
> Raveendra
> ************************************
> Dr Raveendra Nayak, PhD
> Researcher in Corporate Sustainability
> 24 Hardy Street
> Preston Victoria 3072
> Australia
> Telephone: +61 3 9471 0569
>
> "Sharma, Aarti" <
asharma@COBA.USF.EDU> wrote:
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> I am teaching the exit/capstone course on Strategic Management to
> undergraduate students of the College of Business Administration in the
> University of South Florida.
> While designing this course, I took up the challenge of integrating
> knowledge on strategic management with that of sustainable development.
> My objective has therefore been to educate my students on strategic
> management of organizations from a relational and resource perspective,
> while simultaneously guiding them to develop deeper appreciation of
> corporate organizations as "social" institutions.
>
> In this course, I have therefore included sessions that exclusively
> focus on corporate environmental management, corporate social
> responsibility and corporate sustainability.
> This way I am attempting to reveal the complex and dynamic interlinkages
> among socio-cultural, environmental, and economic institutions within
> which corporate organizations are deeply embedded and operating, and the
> influence of such global to local institutional settings on corporate
> survival and strategic growth.
>
> And while I am trying to sensitize my students on these complex issues,
> I am also hoping that at least some of them would be fascinated and
> inspired by this area of knowledge, and propagate these issues as they
> take up managerial positions in future, or pursue higher academic goals.
>
> At this stage, I am looking for some very basic and foundational
> readings (including video resources) on corporate sustainability,
> corporate environmental management, triple bottom line reporting and
> corporate social responsibility that I can share with my students.
> Since they are undergraduates, I am looking for educational resources
> which are appropriately pitched to their level, which they can easily
> grasp, and which does not overwhelm (or scare) them!
>
> I am teaching this course for the first time and aiming to achieve this
> level of depth. Please guide me on to some resources which you think
> will be useful to me in my above objectives. I will greatly benefit
> from your knowledge, expertise and experience as an ONE scholar and
> therefore look forward to your help and advice. Thank you very much.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Aarti
>
> Aarti Sharma
> Department of Management & Organization
> College of Business Administration
> University of South Florida
> 4202 E. Fowler Ave., BSN-3524
> Tampa, FL-33620-5500
> Tel: 813-974-4354
> Fax: 813- 974-1734
>
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