Some of you might want to hit the ground running at the programme start and have asked for some readings. Please see below an optional pre-session reading list.
- Cummings, S. and Bridgman, T. (2022). The Past, Present and Future of Sustainable Management: From the Conservation Movement to Climate Change. Palgrave MacMillan.
- Merrill, G.G., Merrill, R.K., and Schillebeeckx, S.J.D. (2021). 'Digital Sustainability and Entrepreneurship: How Digital Innovations are Helping Tackle Climate Change and Sustainable Development'. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 45(5), 999–1027.
- Carr, C.H. (2020). Global Oligopoly. A Key Idea for Business and Society. An introductory webinar done for Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
- Ivory, S. and Bradley MacKay, R. (2020). 'Scaling sustainability from the organizational periphery to the strategic core: Towards a practice-based framework of what practitioners 'do'.' Business Strategy and the Environment, (1:20).
- Raworth, K. (2017). Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist. Random House Business, for the Sustainable Business Practice Course.
- Donaldson, T. and Walsh, J.P. (2015). 'Toward a theory of business'. Organizational Behavior, 35, pp.181-207.
- Steffen, W., Richardson, K., Rockström, J., Cornell, S.E., Fetzer, I., Bennett, E.M., Biggs, R., Carpenter, S.R., De Vries, W., De Wit, C.A. and Folke, C. (2015). Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet. Science 347(6223), p.1259855.
- Micklethwait, J. and Wooldridge, A. (2005). The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea. Orion Books.
- Friedman, M., and Denning, S. (26 June 2013). 'The Origin of the World's Dumbest Idea: Milton Friedman'.
- Stout, L. (2012). The Shareholder Value Myth: How putting shareholders first harms investors, corporations, and the public. Berrett-Koehler Publishers.
- Friedman, M. (13 September 1970). 'The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits'. New York Times.