Corporate Social Responsibility Presentation of lectures

Corporate Social Responsibility Presentation of lectures

and role-play

Rémi Bazillier

Professor of Economics

Sorbonne School of Economics – Panthéon-Sorbonne University Remi.bazillier@univ-paris1.fr

http://remi.bazillier.free.fr

Organization of the Semester

• 18 hours in total

• First part: Lectures on CSR

• October 2: 16h-19h

• October 9: 16h-17h30

• October 16: 16h-19h

• October 23: 16h17h30

• Second part: role play

• November 13: 16h-19h

• November 20: 16h-17h30

• December 4: 16h-17h30

• December 11: 16h – 19h

Outline of lectures on CSR

• Chapter 1: CSR

• Business and its environmnent

• Business and non-market environment

• Integrated strategy

• Private non-market actions

• CSR

• What is CSR

• Explaining CSR

• CSR and market imperfections

• CSR and performance

• Chapter 2: Sustainability reporting

• The GRI standards

• Reporting principles

• Principles for defining report quality

Role play

• General objective:

• A group of students (2) represents a firm

• The firm presents her CSR strategy

• The other group (2) represents the stakeholders

• The stakeholders defend their point of view

• At the end of the game, students vote for the most convincing group

Group firm (2 students)

• Preparation of a sustainable development report (following guidelines)

• Research work on CSR strategy, and synthesis of existing extra- financial reports

• Research and anticipation of the stakeholders’ claim

• Preparation of answers to potential questions / claims

Group Stakeholders (2 students)

• Mapping of relevant stakeholders

• Selection of the two most relevant stakeholders

• Research work on claims / Critics of stakeholders

• Preparation of detailed arguments towards firms

• Speech can be more or less critical depending on the strategy of the specific stakeholder

• Anticipation of anwers / arguments from the firm

• Choice of action tools

Proceeding of the game

• Presentation of the sustainable development report (10 minutes)

• Arguments of each stakeholders (5 minutes each = 10 minutes)

• Answer from the firm and actions taken (5 minutes)

• Answer stakeholders and actions (5 minutes)

• Debriefing and vote

Process

• 1. Make groups (2x2), if possible mix btw EADL and STEDE

• 2. Choice of the firm

• 3. Choose a slot and propose name of the firm

• https://lite.framacalc.org/rse2018

• 4. Prepare the role play (without communicating between the firm group and the stakeholders group!)