Dates
| every 14 days | Tuesday | 10:15 - 13:45 | 27.10.2026 - 22.12.2026 | C 14.204 Seminarraum |
| weekly | Tuesday | 10:15 - 13:45 | 12.01.2027 - 19.01.2027 | C 14.204 Seminarraum |
Curriculum context
Presentations and discussions (40%)
Resit date: No resit date will be offered to this assessment, because it is didactically inseparably connected with one of the associated courses. A resit will only be possible, if the module is available again.
Organizational information
Registration
Registration does not begin until 02.10.2026 at 08:00. It ends on 12.10.2026 at 23:59.
This course belongs to the cluster "M & Entrepreneurship: Research Project".
In this cluster, you have one choice during the lottery phases.
Persons
Content
This course focuses on global supply chains as a key area for responsible management. Global supply chains are implicated in some of the key grand challenges of our time including sustainable energy or food production or decent work and inequality. Global supply chains also play a key role in sustainable development. After providing a framework of different managerial and public and private governance approaches for making supply chains more sustainable, particularly with a focus on recent supply chain due diligence regulations, students will conduct their own research to analyze selected companies’ sustainable supply chain governance and assess the potential of the taken initiatives for realizing responsible management.
Professional competence:
The students
• Understand the principles and mechanisms of sustainable supply chain governance
• Critically reflect on the role of lead firms in responsibly managing supply chains
• Understand current initiatives and developments for sustainable supply chain governance on different levels
• Learn how to design and carry out meaningful research projects that advance our understanding of responsible management in the context of global supply chains
Personal competence:
The students
• Reflect about their own role as a future practitioner in leading towards responsible management
• Learn how to reason beyond current developments—envisioning and critically exploring possible futures of sustainable production and consumption, also as a basis for assessing their own entrepreneurial ventures and career choices
• Practice acquiring knowledge from a variety of sources, ranging from most advanced scholarly literature to specifically applied practitioner debates and own research, and learn how to critically reflect and creatively recombine this knowledge to responsibly form and advocate their own opinion
• Reflect on how to evaluate their own work and provide feedback to others in a constructive and critical manner
Evaluation
Further information on teaching evaluation: https://www.leuphana.de/en/teaching/quality-management/evaluation/course-evaluation.html