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SOCIAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL THEORIES OF TRANSFORMATION - 4 ECTS
Date and time
Monday 14 March 2022 at 09:00 to Friday 18 March 2022 at 16:00
Registration Deadline
Monday 14 March 2022 at 09:00
Location
Room TBA,
Campus TBA,
2000 Frederiksberg
Room TBA
Campus TBA
2000 Frederiksberg
SOCIAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL THEORIES OF TRANSFORMATION - 4 ECTS
Event Description
We live in a world defined by crises and transformation. Environmental degradation, climate crisis, financial crisis, populism, Covid-19, falling legitimacy of political and economic elites and institutions, just to mention a few. As a result, organizations and businesses are increasingly focusing on transformation as a way to encounter the ‘crisis of legitimacy’ confronting our current setup of economy and society, just as politicians and policy-makers on all sides of the political spectrum calls for the economy to be more thoroughly (re-)embedded within society.
This course enables the students to critically interrogate and analyse the foundations of our economy using the tools of social and organizational theory, as well as insights into alternative ways of imagining it. In order to understand, assess and facilitate transformation, we need to understand the current situation. The course introduces the students to a number of different approaches and understandings of what transformation is and how we can understand it, rooted in social and organizational theory. It also gives the student insights into both the dominant organizational and corporate forms, forms of economic thinking and rationalities, as well as into transformative potentials and alternative organizational forms. The course introduces students to alternative forms of organizing the economy exploring cases on civil society, voluntarism, circular and gift-giving economies, social and sustainable entrepreneurship, social-economic enterprises, eco-villages, cooperatives and democratic enterprises.Event Location
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