Overview
Examines how businesses are responding to sustainability and climate change in the current socio-economic context and encourages students to create alternative scenarios of future business worlds.
The call for businesses to become more sustainable is ever increasing, and now many companies are adopting what they call "sustainable practices". This paper focuses on the socio-economic context of organisations and the environments in which they operate to analyse the implications and possibilities of sustainability. It includes the importance of evaluating and critiquing both the rhetoric about sustainability and the response of businesses to this rhetoric.
About this paper
| Paper title | Sustainable Business |
|---|---|
| Subject | Doctor of Business Administration |
| EFTS | 0.1667 |
| Points | 20 points |
| Teaching period(s) | 1st Non standard period (29 June 2026 - 21 August 2026)
(On campus)
1st Non standard period (29 June 2026 - 21 August 2026) (Distance learning) |
| Delivery mode | The Distance Learning offering of this paper is a combination of remote and in-person teaching |
| Domestic Tuition Fees ( NZD ) | $1,665.83 |
| International Tuition Fees | Tuition Fees for international students are elsewhere on this website. |
- Limited to
- DBA
- Notes
- This paper includes a compulsory on-campus component.
- Contact
- otago-dba@otago.ac.nz
- Teaching staff
- To be confirmed.
- Teaching Arrangements
The Distance Learning offering of this paper is a combination of remote and in-person teaching.
Taught through seminars and online through Blackboard.
- Textbooks
- Readings will be made available through Blackboard.
- Graduate Attributes Emphasised
- Interdisciplinary perspective, Lifelong learning, Critical thinking, Environmental literacy, Global perspective, Cultural understanding, Ethics, Research, Communication, Information literacy.
View more information about Otago's graduate attributes. - Learning Outcomes
Students who successfully complete the paper will gain:
- A highly developed ability to discuss the study of organisations within a wider societal context to understand the social and environmental implications of managing business organisations
- A highly developed ability to critically analyse relevant sustainability, sustainable development and climate change rhetoric and relate the literature to particular problems or challenges facing businesses
- A highly developed ability to critically evaluate frameworks of business sustainability and understand and assess organisational responses to sustainability and climate change and, as a result of this ability and understanding, be able to provide recommendations to organisations in terms of sustainable operations and strategy
- A highly developed ability to present information and opinions in a logical and persuasive manner through both oral and written formats
Overview
Examines how businesses are responding to sustainability and climate change in the current socio-economic context and encourages students to create alternative scenarios of future business worlds.
The call for businesses to become more sustainable is ever-increasing, and now many companies are adopting what they call "sustainable practices." This paper focuses on the socio-economic context of organisations and the environments in which they operate to analyse the implications and possibilities of sustainability. It includes the importance of evaluating and critiquing both the rhetoric about sustainability and the response of businesses to this rhetoric.
About this paper
| Paper title | Sustainable Business |
|---|---|
| Subject | Doctor of Business Administration |
| EFTS | 0.1667 |
| Points | 20 points |
| Teaching period(s) | 1st Non standard period (3 May 2027 - 27 June 2027)
(Distance learning)
1st Non standard period (3 May 2027 - 27 June 2027) (On campus) |
| Delivery mode | The Distance Learning offering of this paper is a combination of remote and in-person teaching, and involves in-person assessment |
| Domestic Tuition Fees | Tuition Fees for 2027 have not yet been set |
| International Tuition Fees | Tuition Fees for international students are elsewhere on this website. |
- Limited to
- DBA
- Notes
- This paper includes a compulsory on-campus component.
- Contact
- Teaching staff
To be confirmed.
- Teaching Arrangements
The distance learning offering of this paper is a combination of remote and in-person teaching.
Taught through seminars and online through Aoroa.
- Textbooks
Readings will be made available through Aoroa.
- Graduate Attributes Emphasised
- Global perspective, Interdisciplinary perspective, Lifelong learning, Communication, Critical thinking, Cultural understanding, Ethics, Environmental literacy, Information literacy, Research.
View more information about Otago's graduate attributes. - Learning Outcomes
Students who successfully complete the paper will gain:
- A highly developed ability to discuss the study of organisations within a wider societal context to understand the social and environmental implications of managing business organisations.
- A highly developed ability to critically analyse relevant sustainability, sustainable development and climate change rhetoric and relate the literature to particular problems or challenges facing businesses.
- A highly developed ability to critically evaluate frameworks of business sustainability and understand and assess organisational responses to sustainability and climate change and, as a result of this ability and understanding, be able to provide recommendations to organisations in terms of sustainable operations and strategy.
- A highly developed ability to present information and opinions in a logical and persuasive manner through both oral and written formats.