This course will address environmental, social and ethical risks, and new business opportunities arising from managing the natural environment with a particular focus on the supply chain. This course will also look at responses at a strategic and operational level: sustainable innovation and green supply chain management, environmental management systems and certification (ISO 14001, EMAS, etc.), supplier code of conducts, sustainable supplier selection and supplier development, waste reduction, eco-efficiency, greenwashing, child labour and labour safety. The focus is not only on operations of the focal firm, but particularly also on sustainability challenges that enfold along globally dispersed supply chains.
- Professor: Blome Constantin
- Professor: Reuter Carsten