Sustainable Vikings: Sustainability & Corporate Social Responsibility in Scandinavia

This course gives you immediate access to the world's leading sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices. Scandinavian firms dominate the major sustainability and CSR performance indicators including the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI). In this course, we explore the concepts of sustainability and CSR and focus attention on how Scandinavian firms, like Novo Nordisk, have achieved superior sustainability and CSR performances. We consider what lessons managers and firms can draw, irrespective of where they may be located in the world.

Through this course, participants will: • Gain an appreciation of the concepts of sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) and be able to situate these concepts within the broader debates about the role of business in society • Understand the sustainability and CSR approaches of leading Scandinavian companies • Describe how partnerships between companies, NGOs, and government are fundamental to the sustainability and CSR of Scandinavian companies • Be able to describe the characterization of “Scandinavian management” and the role Scandinavian management plays in sustainability and CSR approaches by Scandinavian firms • Become familiarized with the “Scandinavian Cooperative Advantage” concept and understand how it challenges the dominant view of strategic management.