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Sustainability is one of the most severe challenges that society is facing. In this course, students will acquire a fundamental understanding of sustainability-related topics and concerns from an organizational perspective. A specific focus will be on the various types, roles, behaviors, and responsibilities of organizations in enabling, yet also hindering more sustainable pathways. 

Understanding organizations as both causes of social and environmental harm and drivers of sustainability.

 Understanding organizational routines, strategy making, and decision making processes in the context of sustainability.

 Understanding the role of diverse organizations and actors in helping to create sustainability oriented markets and industries.

 Understanding and bridging diverse theoretical fields, including strategy, entrepreneurship, organization studies.

Input by the lecturers, plenary and group discussions, group work, case studies, guest lectures from practice (if possible)

Please be aware that attendance is mandatory. If you have an attendance issue, please contact the instructor BEFRORE the respective class to find a solution.

VU: Active participation in classes (e.g., via chat or in person, questions, discussions, etc.), per individual student (50%), quality of small team works (50%)

SE: Quality of the project assignments (per group, 60%) and quality of the individual contribution throughout the seminar, final presentation and the subsequent discussion in Q&A (per individual student, 40%)

The final module grade will be automatically determined based on the VU and the SE grades.

To pass, students have to reach 60% in both, VU and in SE.

Literature will be provided in the module’s syllabus. It is absolutely necessary that students prepare all sessions according to the syllabus (pre-reading), as the grade depends significantly on that. The syllabus and literature will be available before semester start in the OLAT platform.

This module is offered to 30 students. Students of other master programs can choose this module as a free elective. Online registration is obligatory.

Registration is always done for interactive part of the module such as SE, UE, PS or AG. If the student's status changes from "Registration requested" to "Registration confirmed" after the registration deadline for the MA programme, he/she is automatically registered for the VU (or VO) belonging to the module.