Responsible Business for Digital Transformation

Digital Transformation involves business processes and practices to help the organization compete effectively in an increasingly digital world. The adoption of new digital technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), has grown across a vast array of industries, as well as our daily lives. However, concerns about the ethics surrounding the implementation of those technologies have also increased. Thus, it is crucial for us to obtain a comprehensive overview of key ethical questions and normative issues. To this end, this course critically examines the implications of digital technologies and their various impacts on business, and considers societal challenges from the perspective of international business and management studies.



In particular, the course centres on sustainability-oriented innovation and responsible business development/practices, rather than technical aspects. The first week of the course will explain some major business/management frameworks, such as institutional perspectives, Innovation systems, and global value chains. The second week will be mostly dedicated to students' group presentations. Throughout the course, students are required to take part in class activities and discussions, investigating the ethical/moral challenges in promoting digital transition in different contexts.

Course leader

Faith Hatani - Department of International Economics, Goverment and Business

Target group

This is a graduate level course. CBS Summer University courses at Copenhagen Business School is open to all and welcomes domestic and international students as well as professionals.

Course aim

Explain academic concepts and theoretical frameworks relevant to responsible/sustainable business for digital transformation, and appropriately apply them to your analysis.

Examine challenges that firms may face in their attempt to promote digital transformation in a responsible manner.

Identify social and societal issues and key stakeholders in a given context, and assess how their interactions promote or hinder responsible/sustainable digital transformation in the context.

Critically assess firms’ practices and elaborate on the positive and negative impacts of their business practices in view of their contribution to the sustainability of society.

Develop and demonstrate your own arguments about the role of business actors in digital transformation, and suggest actionable strategies and policy implications in a proper academic style

Credits info

2.5 EC
This is an intensive 2-week course. 2-week courses cannot be combined with any other courses.

Fee info

DKK 5750: Tuition fee - Non European students
DKK 2875: Tuition fee - Open University students