Global industrial companies often engage with sustainability management, comprising corporate sustainability, corporate social responsibility, and similar concepts, all of which concern maximizing social and environmental value for a wide range of stakeholders and minimizing negative impacts on society and the environment. Sustainability management is often understood as efforts that go beyond legal requirements, but research shows that drawing a clear line between sustainability management and the law is both difficult and problematic. In this chapter, we examine how virtual exchange (VE) can enhance disciplinary learning by bridging the domains of sustainability management and law. We use insights gained from developing and running the course Managing Sustainability in Global Industrial Companies, established in 2016 between universities in Sweden and Japan. Through our reflection, we argue that the course has mostly treated the disciplines as parallel domains, but that there have been, and can be, important steps toward integration, where disciplinary boundaries are deliberately crossed and the domains are treated as mutually informing. We reflect on how the legal dimensions of sustainability management could be more explicitly integrated to foster deeper, more reflexive learning in future iterations of the course.

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Education for Sustainable Development Across Continents: Law and Sustainability Management Meet in the Virtual Classroom

  • Per Fors,
  • Isabelle Giraudou,
  • Thomas Taro Lennerfors

摘要

Global industrial companies often engage with sustainability management, comprising corporate sustainability, corporate social responsibility, and similar concepts, all of which concern maximizing social and environmental value for a wide range of stakeholders and minimizing negative impacts on society and the environment. Sustainability management is often understood as efforts that go beyond legal requirements, but research shows that drawing a clear line between sustainability management and the law is both difficult and problematic. In this chapter, we examine how virtual exchange (VE) can enhance disciplinary learning by bridging the domains of sustainability management and law. We use insights gained from developing and running the course Managing Sustainability in Global Industrial Companies, established in 2016 between universities in Sweden and Japan. Through our reflection, we argue that the course has mostly treated the disciplines as parallel domains, but that there have been, and can be, important steps toward integration, where disciplinary boundaries are deliberately crossed and the domains are treated as mutually informing. We reflect on how the legal dimensions of sustainability management could be more explicitly integrated to foster deeper, more reflexive learning in future iterations of the course.