After completion of the module, the students are able to understand sustainability concepts and to compare sustainability-oriented corporate profiles as a supplement to value-added corporate development. They can develop and apply concepts for the derivation, evaluation and operational integration of economic, ecological and social indicators. This enables the students to carry out sustainability assessments based on common and innovative new measurement concepts and indicators and to apply the results on corporate level.

The module includes lectures and an exercise. During the lecture, the content is communicated by presentations and discussions. The lectures serves to communicate the theoretical basics and terms of sustainability management including small exercises for group work. The students are encouraged to further deepen their knowledge of the proposed literature. As the highest level of competence, the lecture communicates an understanding of the evaluation of various sustainability concepts for use in operational management. In the exercise, the students deepen the knowledge they have acquired by case studies. The content of the lectures and exercises is deepened both in small working groups and in individual work. As the highest level of competence, the exercise conveys the step-by-step development and incorporation of sustainability concepts using case studies of real company concepts to achieve strategic and operational targets for sustainable development of the selected company.

The Corporate Sustainability Management module includes a detailed discussion of the term sustainability (three-pillar model) and the history of the content. Based on this, the basic premises for sustainable management and sustainable economic strategies are derived and discussed in a social, environmental, economic and corporate context. The international strategies for sustainable management are presented (e.g. bioeconomy, circular economy). Furthermore, established measurement concepts and key performance indicators (KPIs) for sustainability are discussed and applied to case examples and value chains within the framework of "Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting".

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