CSR, Sustainable Development and Public Policy

CSR, Sustainable Development and Public Policy
Topic B for Summative Assessment, to develop a case study of a company, or a country or a region (such as EU or Africa) and on the topic of your choice related to CSR and sustainable development, and the associated public policy issues. Much like Topic A, the Topic B expect the student to develop a fuller background and understanding, but by doing a case study. Again, wide variety of choices are available to the student to choose a case of interest. For example, the student could choose a case of an automotive company such as TESLA, and link it to CSR and sustainable development and explore and analyse the associated public policy issues. This example involves a complex array of emerging research around CSR and sustainable development, and associated challenges for policymakers. Case study, as an assignment, on the chosen topic will start with the case instead and embed the case in the problem of CSR and sustainable development, present different arguments in the extant literature (including, where applicable, policy and practice literature), theories applied by scholars for the study of the issue, and empirical studies conducted. With this topic too, the student is expected to be analytical and assignment will require the student to have a deeper and substantive engagement with the topic/issue (through the case), the literature, theories and policy debates. The student is free to choose any case study from any context – for instance, the case and the concerned topic/issue could be of global, region such as EU or Africa – or a specific country level.