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Literature lists

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EMP

Mandatory reading

Rockström et al. (2024). Planetary Boundaries guide humanity’s future on Earth. Nature Review Earth & Environment 5, 773-788. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-024-00597-z

Rockström et al. (2023). Safe and just Earth system boundaries. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06083-8

Aronson, D. (1996). Overview of systems thinking. https://www.shareable.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/www.thinking.net_Systems_Thinking_OverviewSTarticle.pdf. Link to pdf.

Kim, D.H. (1999). Introduction to Systems Thinking. Link to pdf in Canvas. 

Lecture notes on: Energy systems, Gas cleaning, Liquid-solid separation, Built water systems (will be provided for free)

Sintana E. Vergara & George Tchobanoglous (2012). Municipal Solid Waste and the Environment: A Global Perspective https://www.annualreviews.org/docserver/fulltext/energy/37/1/annurev-environ-050511-122532.pdf?expires=1781710606&id=id&accname=guest&checksum=C328E9F930CE72D78AD2B922C221097B. Link to external website. 

van Ewijk, S. and Stegemann, J.A. 2023. An Introduction to Waste Management and Circular Economy. https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10182591/1/An-Introduction-to-Waste-Management-and-Circular-Economy.pdf. Link to pdf.

Questions? Get in touch with me: Matthias [dot] lehner [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Matthias[dot]lehner[at]iiiee[dot]lu[dot]se)

Reading list

Asheim, G.B., Fæhn, T., Nyborg, K., Greaker, M., Hagem, C., Harstad, B., Hoel, M.O., Lund, D. and Rosendahl, K.E. (2019). The case for a supply-side climate treaty. Science, 365(6451), 325-327.

Bade, R., & Parkin, M. (2023). Foundations of Economics. 9th Edition. Essex: Pearson International Education. (Chapter 1)

Cowen, T., & Tabarrok, A. (2021). Modern Principles of Microeconomics. 5th Edition. New York: Worth Publishers.

Fullerton, D., & Stavins, R. (1998). How economists see the environment. Nature, 395 (6701), 433-434.

Hotelling, H. (1949).  Letter to National Park Service. In: An economic study of the monetary evaluation of recreation in the National Parks (U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service and Recreational Planning Division, Washington, DC).

Kolstad, C. D. (2011). Environmental Economics. 2nd Edition. Oxford University Press. (Ch. 7-10)

Lewis, L., & Tietenberg, T. (2020). Environmental Economics and Policy. 7th Edition. New York: Routledge. 

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) (2018). Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Environment: Further Developments and Policy Use. OECD Publishing.

Mandatory readings for IMEN05 - Introduction to Business Management and Corporate Responsibility 2024

Module 1: Introduction to Business Organizations 

Jimenez & Pulos (2016). The nature & history of corporations. (Page: 1-8)in Jimenez & Pulos. Good Corporation, Bad Corporation: Corporate Social Responsibility in the Global Economy. Suny Open Textbooks

Whittington (2006) Organizational Structure. In Campbell and Faulkner (Eds) The Oxford Handbook of Strategy: A Strategy Overview and Competitive Strategy. OUP Oxford. 

Carysforth, C. & Neild, M. (2006) The main functional areas within business organisations. In Carysforth and Neild (Eds.) BTEC First Business (2nd edition, page 28-43). Heinemann. 

Fuertes, G., Alfaro, M., Vargas, M., Gutierrez, S., Ternero, R., & Sabattin, J. (2020). Conceptual framework for the strategic management: a literature review—descriptive. Journal of engineering, 2020(1), 6253013.

Kirst, R. W., Borchardt, M., de Carvalho, M. N. M., & Pereira, G. M. (2021). Best of the world or better for the world? A systematic literature review on benefit corporations and certified B corporations contribution to sustainable development. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 28(6), 1822-1839.

Gupta, P., Chauhan, S., Paul, J., & Jaiswal, M. P. (2020). Social entrepreneurship research: A review and future research agenda. Journal of business research, 113, 209-229.

Healy, J., Nicholson, D., & Pekarek, A. (2017). Should we take the gig economy seriously?. Labour & Industry: a journal of the social and economic relations of work, 27(3), 232-248.

Module 2: The Context of Business Organizations 

Campbell, J. L. (2007). Why would corporations behave in socially responsible ways? An institutional theory of corporate social responsibility. Academy of management Review, 32(3), 946-967.

Acquier, A., Valiorgue, B., & Daudigeos, T. (2017). Sharing the shared value: A transaction cost perspective on strategic CSR policies in global value chains. Journal of Business Ethics, 144, 139-152.

Derwik, P., & Hellström, D. (2017). Competence in supply chain management: a systematic review. Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, 22(2), 200-218.

Grimm, J. H., Hofstetter, J. S., & Sarkis, J. (2016). Exploring sub-suppliers' compliance with corporate sustainability standards. Journal of Cleaner Production, 112, 1971-1984.

Module 3: Corporate Responsibility 

Dyllick, T., & Muff, K. (2016). Clarifying the meaning of sustainable business: Introducing a typology from business-as-usual to true business sustainability. Organization & environment, 29(2), 156-174.

Zhao, L., Yang, M. M., Wang, Z., & Michelson, G. (2023). Trends in the dynamic evolution of corporate social responsibility and leadership: A literature review and bibliometric analysis. Journal of Business Ethics, 182(1), 135-157.

Weissbrod, I., & Bocken, N. M. (2017). Developing sustainable business experimentation capability–A case study. Journal of Cleaner Production, 142, 2663-2676.

Zaman, R., Jain, T., Samara, G., & Jamali, D. (2022). Corporate governance meets corporate social responsibility: Mapping the interface. Business & Society, 61(3), 690-752.

Anshari, M., Syafrudin, M., Fitriyani, N. L., & Razzaq, A. (2022). Ethical responsibility and sustainability (ERS) development in a metaverse business model. Sustainability, 14(23), 15805.

Knox, B. D. (2020). Employee volunteer programs are associated with firm-level benefits and CEO incentives: Data on the ethical dilemma of corporate social responsibility activities. Journal of Business Ethics, 162(2), 449-472.

Clarke, T., & Boersma, M. (2017). The governance of global value chains: Unresolved human rights, environmental and ethical dilemmas in the apple supply chain. Journal of business ethics, 143, 111-131.

Module 4: Business Analytics 

Delen, D., & Ram, S. (2018). Research challenges and opportunities in business analytics. Journal of Business Analytics, 1(1), 2-12.

Acito, F., & Khatri, V. (2014). Business analytics: Why now and what next?. Business Horizons, 57(5), 565-570.

Duan, Y., Cao, G., & Edwards, J. S. (2020). Understanding the impact of business analytics on innovation. European Journal of Operational Research, 281(3), 673-686.

Seddon, P. B., Constantinidis, D., Tamm, T., & Dod, H. (2017). How does business analytics contribute to business value?. Information Systems Journal, 27(3), 237-269.

Duan, L., & Xiong, Y. (2015). Big data analytics and business analytics. Journal of Management Analytics, 2(1), 1-21.

Schüz, M. (2017). Developing sustainably responsible strategies in business. In The Business Student's Guide to Sustainable Management (pp. 532-570). Routledge.

Module 5: Leadership and Change in Business Organizations 

Brown, N., & Schockman, H. E. (2022). The New Servant Leader: How the Pandemic Evolved Citizen Perspectives of Leadership. In The Palgrave Handbook of Servant Leadership (pp. 1-26). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

Mukherjee, T. (2023). The power of empathy: rethinking leadership agility during transition. In Agile Leadership for Industry 4.0 (pp. 175-191). Apple Academic Press.

Saha, R., Shashi, Cerchione, R., Singh, R., & Dahiya, R. (2020). Effect of ethical leadership and corporate social responsibility on firm performance: A systematic review. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 27(2), 409-429.

Module 6: Strategy and Business Modelling 

Teece, D. J. (2010). Business models, business strategy and innovation. Long range planning, 43(2-3), 172-194.

Agnihotri, A. (2016). Extending boundaries of blue ocean strategy. Journal of Strategic Marketing, 24(6), 519-528.

Branco, M. C., & Rodrigues, L. L. (2006). Corporate social responsibility and resource-based perspectives. Journal of business Ethics, 69, 111-132.

Mathiyazhagan, K., Agarwal, V., Appolloni, A., Saikouk, T., & Gnanavelbabu, A. (2021). Integrating lean and agile practices for achieving global sustainability goals in Indian manufacturing industries. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 171, 120982.

Nielsen, C., Osterwalder, A., & Pigneur, Y. (2024). How do you enable business model innovation to thrive in your organisation?. Journal of Business Models, 12(2).

Osterwalder, A., & Euchner, J. (2019). Business model innovation: An interview with Alex Osterwalder. Research-Technology Management, 62(4), 12-18.

DaSilva, C. M., & Trkman, P. (2014). Business model: What it is and what it is not. Long range planning, 47(6), 379-389.

 

 

Mandatory and voluntary readings/resources 

Please see the pages for lectures and seminars to see what readings to prepare for which activity.

Mandatory readings: 

Students will also be asked to select additional readings as part of their course assignment(s).

The students must choose one of the following papers as well:

  • Bulkeley, Harriet. ‘Cities and the Governing of Climate Change’. Annual Review of Environment and Resources 35, no. 1 (2010): 229–53. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-environ-072809-101747. 
  • Bulkeley, Harriet, and Vanesa Castán Broto. ‘Government by Experiment? Global Cities and the Governing of Climate Change’. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 38, no. 3 (2013): 361–75. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-5661.2012.00535.x. 
  • Wolfram, Marc. ‘Conceptualizing Urban Transformative Capacity: A Framework for Research and Policy’. Cities 51 (January 2016): 121–30. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2015.11.011. 
  • Moreno, Carlos, Zaheer Allam, Didier Chabaud, Catherine Gall, and Florent Pratlong. ‘Introducing the “15-Minute City”: Sustainability, Resilience and Place Identity in Future Post-Pandemic Cities’. Smart Cities 4, no. 1 (2021): 93–111. https://doi.org/10.3390/smartcities4010006. 

Non-required voluntary readings:

Other (voluntary resources):

No literature listed in 2023 or 2024.

Barreto, I. (2010). Dynamic capabilities. A review of past research and an agenda for the future. Journal of Management, 36(1), 256–280

Ritala, P., Huotari, P., Bocken, N., Albareda, L., & Puumalainen, K. (2018). Sustainable business model adoption among S&P 500 firms: A longitudinal content analysis study. Journal of Cleaner Production, 170, 216–226.

Engert, S., Rauter, R., & Baumgartner, R. J. (2016). Exploring the integration of corporate sustainability into strategic management: A literature review. Journal of Cleaner Production, 112, 2833–2850

 Barney, J. (1991). Firm resources and sustained competitive advantage. Journal of management, 17(1), 99-120 

Reinhardt, F. L. (1998). Environmental product differentiation: Implications for corporate strategy. California management review, 40(4), 43-73.

Excerpts from the book Reinhardt, F. L. (2000). Down to earth: Applying business principles to environmental management. Harvard Business Press

Orsato, R. J. (2006). Competitive environmental strategies: when does it pay to be green? California Management Review, 48(2), 127-143.

Orsato, R. J. (2009). Sustainability strategies: when does it pay to be green? (4th ed.). New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan. 

Sustainable Transformation Strategy: Casebook on Corporate Sustainability in Practice. (Taticchi, P., Demartini, M., & Corvaglia-Charrey, M. (2023). Sustainable Transformation Strategy: Casebook on Corporate Sustainability in Practice. Springer Nature.)

Bocken, N. M. P., & Geradts, T. H. J. (2020). Barriers and drivers to sustainable business model innovation: Organization design and dynamic capabilities. Long Range Planning, 53(4), 101950.

Optional reading: 

Cavaleri S., Shabana, K. Rethinking sustainability strategies. Journal of Strategy and Management. 2018;11(1), 2-17. 

Pieroni, M. P. P., Jensen, T. H., Pigosso, D. C. A., & McAloone, T. C. (2020). Circular Economy Business Modelling: CIRCit Workbook 2. Technical University of Denmark. 

Geissdoerfer, M. et al. (2020) ‘Circular business models: A review’, Journal of Cleaner Production, 277.

Hofmann, F., & Jaeger‐Erben, M. (2020). Organizational transition management of circular business model innovations. Business Strategy and the Environment, 29(6), 2770–2788.

Geissdoerfer, M., Pelzeter, C. and Santa-maria, T. (2022) ‘Drivers and barriers for circular business model innovation’, (April), pp. 1–19.

Required readings/materials:

Reading materials for the assignments are primarily collected by the students themselves. Additional preparatory readings (i.e. texts of specific laws, etc.) for the seminars led by course teachers are provided on the respective canvas pages of the teacher-led seminars, with a reading guide. The following book chapters may serve as a good starting point for refreshing knowledge regarding concepts and principles underlying environmental law and policy.

  • Hunter, D., Salzman, J. and Zaelke, D. (2022). International Environmental Law and Policy, Sixth Edition. New York: Foundation Press. Chapter 8, “Principles and Concepts in International Environmental Law”: a few copies from varying editions are available in the IIIEE library.
  • Sands, P., Peel, J., with Fabra, A., and R. MacKenzie. (2018) Principles of International Environmental Law, Fourth Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (available as E-book from the LU library).

All readings can be accessed via LUB search unless otherwise stated. 

Fischer, F. (1995). Public Policy Analysis as practical deliberation: Integrating Empirical and Normative Evaluation. In Fischer, F.  Evaluating Public Policy. Wadsworth: Australia (pp:1-24). 

Rogge, K., Kern, F., Howlett, M. (2017). Conceptual and empirical advances in analysing policy mixes for energy transitions. Energy Research & Social Science 33: 1-10. 

Mickwitz P. 2003. A Framework for Evaluating Environmental Policy Instruments: Context and Key Concepts, Evaluation, 9(4), 415-436. 

Huitema, D., Jordan, A., Massey, E., Rayner, T., van Asselt, H., Haug, C., Hildingsson R., Monni, S., & Stripple, J. (2011). The evaluation of climate policy: theory and emerging practice in Europe. Policy Sciences, 44(2), 179–198. 

Coryn, C., Noakes, L., Westine, C., & Schröter, D. (2011). A systematic review of theory-driven evaluation practice from 1990 to 2009. American Journal of Evaluation 32(2): 199–226. 

Chen, Huey-Tsyh, Wang, Juju C.S., & Lind, Lung-Ho. (1997). Evaluating the Process and Outcome of a Garbage Reduction Program in Taiwan. Evaluation Review 21 (1):27-42. 

Farro, S & Toman, M. (1998). Using environmental benefit-cost analysis to improve government performance. 

Doelen, V., J., F., & Vedung, E. (1998). The Sermon: Information Programs in Public Policy Process — Choices, Effects, Evaluation (pp. 103–128). 

Ludwig, J., Kling, J. & Mullainathan, S. (2011). Mechanism Experiments and Policy Evaluation. Journal of Economic Perspectives 25(3):17-39. 

Institute of Development Studies. (2006). Understanding Policy Processes: A review of IDS research 

No current info on reading 

 

Mandatory reading: 

 

John W. Creswell and J. David Creswell 2018 Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches 5th Edition, SAGE.

Optional reading:

 

 

 

 

Required readings/materials:

Reading materials for the assignments are primarily collected by the students themselves. The following books may serve as a good starting point for refreshing your knowledge regarding concepts and principles underlying environmental law and policy.

  • Hunter, David, Salzman, James and Zaelke, Durwood. (2022). International Environmental Law and Policy, Sixth Edition. New York: Foundation Press. Chapter 8, “Principles and Concepts in International Environmental Law”: a few copies from varying editions are available in the IIIEE library.
  • Sands, P., Peel, J., with Fabra, A., and R. MacKenzie. (2018) Principles of International Environmental Law, Fourth Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (available as E-book from the LU library).

Readings for the seminars led by course teachers, as well as the readings related to the lectures and seminar by Prof. Jim Salzman, are provided at the respective pages of the teracher-led seminars and module regarding the topic. Note that information presented during lectures and seminars complement the other learning resources.


 

MESPOM

Module 1: Environmental Management Systems (EMS)

International Organization for Standardization (2015). Environmental management systems — Requirements with guidance for use (ISO Standard 14001:2015) 

Brorson, T. & Larsson, G. (2011). Environmental Management. How to implement an environmental management system in a company or other organization. Fifth Edition.

Nordic Waterproofing Sustainability Report 2022

International Organization for Standardization. Contributing to the UN Sustainable Development Goals with ISO standards (2018). An overview of how ISO standards contribute directly to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Module 2: Prevention

Schmidt et al. (2019). 100 Pioneers in Efficient Resource Management. Best practice cases from producing companies. Springer Spektrum. 

Johansson et al. (2002). Cleaner Technology Strategies. IIIEE. 

Sustainable and resource-efficient business performance measurement systems – The handbook. Almström et al (2017) 

Module 3 Business Strategies 

3L5 Green Business Strategies 

Barney, J. (1991). Firm resources and sustained competitive advantage. Journal of Management, 17(1), 99-120. 

Cavaleri S., Shabana, K. Rethinking sustainability strategies. Journal of Strategy and Management. 2018;11(1), 2-17. 

Reinhardt, Forest L. "Bringing the environment down to earth." Harvard business review 77.4 (1998): 149-57. 

Reinhardt, F. L. (1998). Environmental product differentiation: Implications for corporate strategy. California management review, 40(4), 43-73. 

Orsato, R. J. (2006). Competitive environmental strategies: when does it pay to be green? California management review, 48(2), 127-143. 

Towards sustainable business models and circular strategies

Bocken, N. M. P., & Geradts, T. H. J. (2020). Barriers and drivers to sustainable business model innovation: Organization design and dynamic capabilities. Long Range Planning, 53(4), 101950. 

Friedman (1970). The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits. New York Times Magazine. 

Porter & Kramer (2011). Creating Shared Value. Originally published in Harvard Business Review, available as book chapter in: Lenssen G., Smith N. (eds) (2019). Managing Sustainable Business. Springer: Dordrecht. 

Module 4: Life cycle assessment (LCA)

Currant, M.A. (2006). Life Cycle Analysis, Principles and Practice. US EPA. 

Jönsson, K. (1998). Defining and Comparing Environmental Impacts. In: N. Jacobsson, & K. Jönsson, "Feasibility Study of Equivalence of Eco-labelling Criteria". Lund: IIIEE. (pp. 13-20, 22)

Other assessment methods:

Finnveden, G & Moberg, Å. (2005). Environmental systems analysis tools. JCP vol 13. 

Uppsala University (2002). (selected chapters) Ch. 5. Introduction to Life Cycle Assessment. Ch6. Life Cycle Impact Assessment, Ch.7. Ready Made methods for Life Cycle Assessment (skip section 7.4.). 

Moberg, Å. (1999). Environmental systems analysis tools - differences and similarities 

  • Dalhammar & Richter. Policy Primer (available on canvas). 
  • Economics for Rebels podcast episode "Degrowth - Ecological Economics - Post-development: Brothers or acquaintances?” EU Commission. (2015). Recast of the WEEE Directive.
  • Fischer, F. (1995). Evaluating public policy. Nelson-Hall Publishers. (Ch 1 - will be available digitally or hard copy from teacher/canvas) https://lubcat.lub.lu.se/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=1729725 .   
  • Höglund Hellgren, J., Höhler, S., Isberg, E., Paglia, E., Samosír, G., & Schrøder, T. H. (2025). The great dispersal: The fall and rise of global environmental governance. Ambio, 54(8), 1267–1288. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-025-02177-x 
  • Kallis, G., Hickel, J., O’Neill, D. W., Jackson, T., Victor, P. A., Raworth, K., Schor, J. B., Steinberger, J. K., & Ürge-Vorsatz, D. (2025). Post-growth: The science of wellbeing within planetary boundaries. The Lancet Planetary Health, 9(1), e62–e78. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(24)00310-3 
  • Kothari, A., Demaria, F., & Acosta, A. (2014). Buen Vivir, Degrowth and Ecological Swaraj: Alternatives to sustainable development and the Green Economy. Development, 57(3), 362–375. https://doi.org/10.1057/dev.2015.24 
  • Lewis, L., & Tietenberg, T. (2020). Environmental Economics and Policy. 7th Edition. New York: Routledge. [Chapter 3]  
  • Stavins, R. N. (2022). The Relative Merits of Carbon Pricing Instruments: Taxes versus Trading. Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 16(1), 62–82. https://doi.org/10.1086/717773
  • Sterner, T., & Coria, J. (2013). Policy instruments for Environmental and Natural Resource Management. 2nd Edition. Washington DC: Resources for the Future. [Chapters 5-8 – specific pages in canvas] 
  • Van der Doolen, J. & Vedung, E. (1998). The Sermon: Information Programs in Public Policy Process — Choices, Effects, Evaluation in Carrots, Sticks & Sermons: Policy Instruments & Their Evaluation. New Brunswick N.J., USA & London, UK. Chapter 4 (pp.103-128) - provided on canvas 

Voluntary reading: 

  • Voluntary readings suggested in canvas relevant to particular lecture/seminar topics. 

John W. Creswell and J. David Creswell 2018 Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches 5th Edition, SAGE.

Mickwitz, P. 2014. “One figure and a comment: research quality and how to promote it through supervision”, In T. Helle, A. Jokinen, M. Laine, H. Leino & Ville Lähde (eds.) (2014) Vaeltaja: Professori Yrjö Hailan juhlakirja. Tampere, 45-49. 

Flyvbjerg Bent (2006) Five Misunderstandings About Case-Study Research, Qualitative Inquiry12(2): 219-245.

Section 2 in Benjamin K. Sovacool, Jonn Axsen, Steve Sorrell (2018). Promoting novelty, rigor, and style in energy social science: Towards codes of practice for appropriate methods and research design, Energy Research & Social Science, 45: 12-42.

 

Turabian, K. (2013). A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations: (8th ed.). Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press (5 copies available at the IIIEE library).

Wyse, D., Cowan, K., 2017. The Good Writing Guide for Education (4th ed.). SAGE Publications (2

Fischer, F. (1995).  Evaluating public policy.

Belmont CA: Wadsworth Group. Read Ch 1: “Public policy analysis as practical deliberation: Integrating empirical and normative evaluation” (pp.1-24). 

Mickwitz, P. (2003).  A Framework for Evaluating Environmental Policy Instruments: Context and Key Concepts. Evaluation 9(4). 415-436

Rogge, K., Kern, F. & Howlett, M. (2017). Conceptual and empirical advances in analysing policy mixes for energy transitions. Energy Research & Social Science. 33:1-10.

Neij & Heiskanen Municipal climate mitigation policy and policy learning - A review. Journal of Cleaner Production Volume 317, 1 October 2021, 128348

Loorbach, D (2009) Transition Management for Sustainable Development: A Prescriptive, Complexity-Based Governance Framework. Governance - An International Journal of Policy, Administration and Institutions. Volume23, Issue1, January 2010, Pages 161-183

Bulkeley, H and Kern, K. Local Government and the Governing of Climate Change in Germany and the UK. Sage Journals, Urban Studies, Volume 43, Issue 12

Linton S, Clarke A and Tozer L. (2021) Strategies and Governance for Implementing Deep Decarbonization Plans at the Local Level. Sustainability 13(1), 154 - Climate Change Mitigation and Urban Sustainable Development ISSN 2071-1050

Bulkeley, H., & Betsill, M. (2005). Rethinking Sustainable Cities: Multilevel Governance and the “Urban” Politics of Climate Change. Environmental Politics, 14(1), 42–63.

Barreto, I. (2010). Dynamic capabilities. A review of past research and an agenda for the future. Journal of Management, 36(1), 256–280.

Burnes Bernard, & James Hakeem. (1995). Culture, cognitive dissonance and the management of change. International Journal of Operations & Production Management, 15(8), 14–33.

Oliver, C. (1991). STRATEGIC RESPONSES TO INSTITUTIONAL PROCESSES. Academy of Management Review, 16(1), 145–179. 

van Mossel, A., van Rijnsoever, F. J., & Hekkert, M. P. (2018). Navigators through the storm: A review of organization theories and the behavior of incumbent firms during transitions. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 26(July 2017), 44–63. 

Froese, Tobias, Markus Richter, Florian Hofmann, and Florian Lüdeke-Freund. “Degrowth-Oriented Organisational Value Creation: A Systematic Literature Review of Case Studies”. Ecological Economics 207 (May 2023): 107765.  

Davies, Anna. “Food sharing”. I Routledge handbook of sustainable and regenerative food systems, 204–17. Routledge, 2020.  

Maguire, Kelly. “Environmental impacts of events”. A Research Agenda for Event Impacts, Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, 2022, 41–61.  

Arbeláez Vélez, Ana María, and Andrius Plepys. “Car Sharing as a Strategy to Address GHG Emissions in the Transport System: Evaluation of Effects of Car Sharing in Amsterdam”. Sustainability 13, nr 4 (January 2021): 2418. 

Roberts, Hedda, Leonidas Milios, Oksana Mont, and Carl Dalhammar. “Product Destruction: Exploring Unsustainable Production-Consumption Systems and Appropriate Policy Responses”. Sustainable Production and Consumption 35 (01 January 2023): 300–312.  

Akenji, Lewis, Magnus Bengtsson, Viivi Toivio, Michael Lettenmeier, Tina Fawcett, Yael Parag, Yamina Saheb, et al. “1.5-Degree Lifestyles: Towards A Fair Consumption Space for All”. Berlin: Hot or Cool Institute, 2021.  

Langley, David J., Eugenia Rosca, Marios Angelopoulos, Oscar Kamminga, and Christa Hooijer. “Orchestrating a smart circular economy: Guiding principles for digital product passports”. Journal of Business Research 169 (01 December 2023): 114259.  

Coroamă, V. C., & Mattern, F. (2019). Digital rebound–why digitalization will not redeem us our environmental sins. In Proceedings 6th international conference on ICT for sustainability. Lappeenranta. http://ceur-ws. org (Vol. 2382).  

Belkhir, L., & Elmeligi, A. (2018). Assessing ICT global emissions footprint: Trends to 2040 & recommendations. Journal of Cleaner Production, 177, 448-463.  

 

SAS courses 

All the readings, videos and podcasts that are part of this course will be available via the course site on Canvas.

Here is a list of the readings:

McCormick, K., Richter, J. L., & Pantzar, M. (2015). Greening the Economy Compendium. Lund University

Fiorino, D. (2014) The Green Economy: Mythical or Meaningful? 

Raworth, K. (2019) Doughnut Economics

Power, K. & Mont, O. (2010) Dispelling the Myths about Consumption Behaviour.

Hansen, A. & Nielsen, K.B. (2023). Consumption, Sustainability and Everyday Life.

SDG Compass The guide for business action on the SDG. GRI, UN Global Compact and the WBCSD.

SDG Essentials for businesses. GRI, UN Global Compact and the WBCSD.

Rode, P. (2013) Cities and the Green Economy, 79-97.

Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety. (2017). Carbon Pricing: Using Market-based Mechisms to Mitigate Climate Change.

Ellen MacArthur Foundation. (2015) Delivering the Circular Economy: A toolkit for policymakers, 39-98.

Required readings/resources

  • Course compendium: Peck, P. (Ed.), Richter, J. L. (Ed.), Delaney, K. (Ed.), Peck, P., Richter, J. L., Dalhammar, C., Peck, D., Orlov, D., Machacek, E., Gillabel, J., Nußholz, J. L. K., Wrancken, K., Whalen, K., Modis, K., Milios, L., Messing, M., Bocken, N., Tojo, N., Davris, P., Manshoven, S., Sfez, S., Lindhqvist, T., Voytenko Palgan, Y. (2020). Circular Economy - Sustainable Materials Management: A compendium by the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) at Lund University. (2021 ed.) The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics
  • Milios, L. (2017). Advancing to a Circular Economy: Three essential ingredients for a comprehensive policy mix. Sustainability Science, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-017-0502-9 

Please note: 

  • We list only mandatory course literature here - recommended literature will be communicated via the course Canvas page
  • All literature will be made available via the course Canvas pages EXCEPT for one course book each for IMEN69 and IMEN01
  • This list of course literature is subject to yearly updates (at the latest two months before each course start)
  • Detailed reading instructions can be found on the individual course Canvas pages

 

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