Faculty
Andrew Kakabadse, Nada Kakabadse, Steen Vallentin, Mette Morsing and Kai Hockerts

Course Coordinator
Kai Hockerts

The course is aimed primarily at second or third year students, but it is also open for early stage PhD students. Extensive readings, presence for all hours of all days of the class, and active discussion participation are expected of all enroled students.

Professors Hockerts will assign some students with roles as discussion co-leaders or research presenters. All students are requested to submit a brief one page abstract of the thesis proposal as well as a draft for a paper that they consider submitting to a journal. The latter will be used in the feed-back session.

In the world of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) we see a move from what might be terminated operational CSR towards a more strategic vision of CSR, in which Social Innovation plays a key role. It is the intention of this PhD workshop to bring together doctoral students from different disciplinary backgrounds to help understand each others’ research approaches and to explore commonalities as well as differences in their work. The four day workshop will use topical lectures as well as feed-back on individual thesis projects in small groups. Furthermore, there will be sessions on research methodology and publication strategy.

Tuesday 30 September (Day 1)

09:00 Welcome and Introduction to the Seminar /
Brief Presentation of all participants and their projects

Kai Hockerts, Copenhagen Business School (CBS)

10:00 Policy makers as Drivers of Strategic CSR Innovation
Results from European Research so far
Steen Vallentin, Associate Professor, Copenhagen Business School (CBS)

11:30 Break

11:45 Discussion

12:30 Lunch

14:00 Learnings from Corporate Governance for the CSR Debate

Andrew Kakabadse, Professor, Cranfield School of Management

15:30 Break

16:00 Discussion

17:00 End

20:00 Welcome Dinner

Wednesday 1 October (Day 2)

09:00 From Social Responsibility to Social Innovation

The Emerging Field of Social Entrepreneurship

Kai Hockerts, Associate Professor, Copenhagen Business School (CBS)

10:30 Break

10:45 Discussion

12:00 Lunch

14:00 From One-way Communication to True Stakeholder Dialogue

Mette Morsing, Professor, Copenhagen Business School

15:30 Break

16:00 Discussion

17:00 End

Thursday 2 October (Day 3)

09:00 Individual Feed-back on Papers / Thesis Proposals
Group work (four students + one senior faculty per group)
- Andrew Kakabadse

- Nada Kakabadse

- Steen Vallentin

- Mette Morsing

- Kai Hockerts

12:00 Lunch

14:00 Research Methodology: Considerations for CSR Research
Nada Kakabadse, Professor in Management and Business
Research at the University of Northampton, Business School

15:30 Break

16:00 Discussion

17:00 End of Day 3

Friday 3 October (Day 4)

09:00 Editor’s Perspective: Publishing CSR Research in Mainstream Journals

Paper Submission, Review Process and Publication
Nicolai Foss, Professor, Director, Center for Strategic
Management and Globalization, CBS (tbc)

10:30 Break

11:00 Developing an international Publication Strategy
N.N. (tbd)

12:30 Lunch

14:00 Learning how to Review

Kai Hockerts, Associate Professor, Copenhagen Business School (CBS)

15:30 Break

16:00 Work Group: Participants will prepare action plans based on learnings
form the class and present back to the group

17:00 End of Ph.D. Workshop.

Readings for each day will be made available electronically prior to class. Participants are requested to come prepared to the seminar.