Sum up the lecture

Sum up the lecture

Today was the last lecture of Sustainable Management. At the first part, teacher said she was disappointed about our poor participation in the course. That was true, but it was difficult to discuss about sustainability, especially in her class, I thought…

Any way, she summarized the structure of the lecture. It was interesting for me. The lecture consisted;

1. Concept:
Concept of Sustainability

2. Business:
CSR, conduct
sustainable market and enterprize
supply chain, customers sustainability
sustainable leadership
financial market and cooperate responsibility

3. Standerize:
social entrepreneur
reporting
social standard

4. Poverty reduction:
poverty reduction


From the all over the course, I learned three things about sustainability.

First is complexity of network. To consider sustainability, we have to look supply chain, from raw material to customer, even to recycle. Network becomes more complex and more long-term, and communication become more and more important.

Second is standardization. To make communication efficient, a system of certification is needed. It should be international one. And in terms of financial market, sustainability should be evaluated. This generates some report of CSR, and indexes.

Last one is poverty reduction. Ultimately, sustainability relates poverty and developing countries because the concept of sustainability is global, and one of the biggest polluters in the future world will be developing countries.

At the same time, I leaned that there are not solid method or theory in sustainability. I do not know why, but I think “sustainability” should not be an independent subject, should be one theme of some business administration because there is some trade-off in real and theory, and sustainability is only theory and ideals.