We would like to develop a number of best practice teaching cases on different CSR issues to be used in class for our own students but also for students at international business schools. Most teaching cases are based on US companies and we want to invite a Danish/European perspective into the classrooms. Development of teaching cases (including teaching notes) will be posted at for example European Case Clearing House (ECCH), published in international journals or books, and otherwise distributed to reach a large and international student audience.

We face an increasing amount of bachelor and graduate students wanting to write their bachelor or master thesis on CSR. We envision that companies, students and researchers could benefit from this interest in terms of reflective questions, potential employees, a massive data collection on Danish companies’ CSR activities. We think the interest and the willingness to participate is there from all parties. We need to identify the administrative resources to organize and administer such an effort.

An industrial research project is a 3-year engagement with one person who will deliver a ph.d. project in close collaboration with CBS and the respective company. Companies’ participation is motivated by having a committed researcher to collaborate with the company on projects they are already committed to do. For example, an investigation of how CSR may contribute to the corporate employer branding strategy, how CSR is best integrated into the corporate communication programme between HQ and international subsidiaries, or how non-financial reporting becomes embedded into the organizational routines. Currently we have industrial researchers on CSR projects in collaboration with TDC, Velux, PricewaterhouseCoopers, TrygVesta, Coloplast and Danfoss.

Research projects in which a company may seek the particular assistance from a senior researcher for a period of months or years. Such a collaboration bears many resemblances with the industrial research project, yet will involve senior researcher/s and is more flexible timewise as it will not be committed to deliver a ph.d. project but rather other types of deliverables such as reports, analyses, surveys, etc.