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Development, Business &Corporate Social Responsibility

Development, Business & Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)The poor need business to invest in their future. Business needs the poor because they are the future (United Nations Development Programme, 2006)

TOPICS:

1Introduction to the course2The Rise of CSR and Business Development 3Corporate Social Responsibility & the Market4Business, Civil Society & the State: Partnerships for Development5 Rights, Resources & Conflict: CSR and the Extractive Industries 6Business, Health & Development7CSR & Ethical Trade: Producers, Consumers & Labour8 Margins of the Market: Entrepreneurs & Small Business9 CSR and its Critics where next?

Teaching & Assessment1 x 1hr Lecture per week2 x 2hr Seminar per weekFilm series (optional

Assessment5,000 word essayFilmsWeek 3 The Corporation (2003, Joel Bakan) Week 4 The Yes Men (2005, Chris Smith)Week 5 Up in Smoke (2008, Marty Otanez)Week 6 Crude: The Real Price of Oil (2009, Joe Berlinger)Week 7 Not-so-fair-trade (2006, Libby Potter) Week 8 The World According to Monsanto (2008, Marie-Monique Robin)Week 9 Walmart The High Cost of Low Prices(2006, Robert Greenwald)

Key ThemesPartnership and the relationship between states, civil society and business in development The role of markets in development

CSR, state regulation and voluntarism

Resource wars, multinational business and the impact for development

Labour, production and consumption

Past Dissertations TopicsThe Complex Path of Cocoa: Tracing Commodity Trade, New Slavery and Tensions within Fairtrade InitiativesBusiness at the Bottom of the Pyramid The Way to Inclusive Capitalism? The Case of Mobile PhonesConstructing Community Boundaries: The Limitations of CSR for the Health of Mineworkers in South AfricaThe Ideal of Innovation in Health: Biomedicines an the Biotechnology Industry a Socially Responsible Nexus?Taking the Shine of the Diamond Industry: Is the Kimberley Process Furthering ColonialismBeating the Climate Crunchwith your Wallet? The Limitations of Green ConsumerismThe Business of Breastfeeding: Development, Market Forces & the Construction of Maternal IdentitiesBottling Out: Investigating the relationship between Bottled Water Consumption and the Global Water CrisisBusiness, Brands and Symbols: Is Solidarity Consumption a Tool for Development?