Corporate Social Responsibility

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Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainability and Socially Responsible Investing is gaining increased attention at the level of corporations , small and medium companies, governments, financial institutions and finally the investors, within last ten years. It isn't perceived as transient fashion or activities undertaken by companies to improve their image, any more. It is rather treated as indispensable part of corporate strategy that should increase effectiveness of business operations and have positive impact on company's valuation. Therefore the concept is operationalized into rules, regulations, best practices, disclosing policies, measuring the effects by selected ratios and finally monitoring. This course is, therefore, intended to expose students to the concepts, techniques and instruments of Corporate Social Responsibility. Its objectives are threefold, namely: 1) to understand the Corporate Social Responsibility and its accompanying concepts, 2) to apprehend the influences of Sustainability on major sectors of economy and business operations, 3) to master the basic techniques of strategic problems analysis in the scope of CSR. I. Corporate Social Responsibility - concept and implementation at strategic level in companies. Definition. Framework. Participants of the process. Implementation. The case: How CSR works in Polish companies. II. How CSR can be measured. Sustainable Reporting. Global Reporting Initiative. Is it effective to disclose CSR information? How companies are implementing the idea of CSR reporting. What is the scope of reporting and how particular fields of activities are evaluated. The case: Danone. III. Sustainable scorings, equity indices, rankings and ratings. The Role of International and National CSR, ESG scoring and ratings. Weighting, ratios, transparency and disclosure scores. The case: ASSET4 - Thomson Reuters Datastream Sustainability Scoring. III. Socially Responsible Investing - as the criterion for investment portfolio choice. SRI investment funds, AUM, Sustainable equity indices. How sustainable equity indices are constructed and what are the general criteria for stock inclusion/exclusion. The case: Polish RESPECT index, examples of indices from countries of summer school participants. IV. Team work on chosen companies from ASSET4 universe - presentation of the project (details will be discussed during the classes).

Period
05-07-2014 - 19-07-2014 (2 weeks)

Target group
Postgraduate group

Course aim
By the end of this course, the students will: 1) understand the definition of CSR, and its major accompanying concepts: ESG, Sustainability, GRI, SRI, etc. 2) apprehend the influences of CSR on major fields of corporate, government and social areas functioning 3) master the basic techniques of data analysis, strategic insights, plans and conclusions.



Credits
1.5 ECTS credits

Course fee
EUR 650[Convert to USD]The cost of participation in the Summer School Poland.

Course leader
dr Tomasz Słoński/ dr Bożena Ryszawska/ dr Karolina Daszyńska - Żygadło

Wroclaw University of Economics
Address: ul. Komandorska 118/120
Postal code: 53-345
City: Wrocław
Country: Poland
Website: http://www.summerschool.pl/
E-mail: Joanna.Radomska@summerschool.pl
Phone: +48 713680209