To help you best prepare for your MSc, your Programme Director has identified some pre-reading materials which will give you a head start on your programme.

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.