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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 in helping to create sustainability oriented markets and industries, with a particular focus on: social movements, established organizations (incumbents), entrepreneurs.

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

Input by the lecturers, plenary and group discussions, group work, case studies

Active participation in class determines individual grade (50%), case-based group works determine group grade (50%)

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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 courses 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 VO (or VU) belonging to the module.