TEAE18 · 6 credits · Advanced level (A1F) · Industriell ekonomi
Sustainable Value Chain Strategies
Active · next start HT 2026
100%
passed the latest regular sitting
PRA1 · 8 Jan 2026 · 22 students
100%
passed the regular sittings, all sittings over the last 5 years
PRA1 · 72 students
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Part of 4 programmes
Hand-in or lab
PRA1 Project
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- 4
Main rounds
100% passed · 72 students
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Later rounds
100% passed · 7 students
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- Pass a later round: 100% (7 students), compared with 100% (72 students) on the ordinary exam
- Get 4 or 5: 100% (79 students)
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Other modules
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Hand-in or lab
UPG2 Seminars
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Main rounds
100% passed · 82 students
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Later rounds
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Hand-in or lab
UPG1 Oral and written examination
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Main rounds
100% passed · 81 students
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Later rounds
No sittings with at least 5 students.
- Get 4 or 5: 89% (81 students)
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About the course
Aim
The aim of the course is that the students should develop knowledge and understanding about business and management strategies for economic, environmental and social sustainability in the context of value chains. The students will learn to develop strategies, and to apply theories, methods and tools enabling them to systematically analyze value creation and different strategic sustainability challenges and opportunities in the context of the strategic management of value chains, business ecosystems and business relationships. The course also aims to provide an overview of value chains, their actors and interrelationships.
After successful completion of the course, the student should on an advanced level be able to:
- Describe and explain theories on business strategy and value creation relative sustainability in business ecosystems.
- Describe and elaborate on the role and importance of sustainability in the strategic management of firms and value chains.
- Based on theories and models for strategic value chain development, describe and analyze driving forces and barriers for firm sustainability, in business ecosystems and value chains from different stakeholder perspectives.
- Apply relevant theories, methods and tools in order to critically evaluate sustainable value chain strategies for a firm as well as for a value chain.
- Develop structured solutions to identified sustainability challenges with implications for relevant stakeholders, from a strategic management perspective.
Content
The course focuses on a number of key themes. Examples include:
- The value chain concept, including business relationships and network/ecosystem theory
- Value and resource analysis - theoretical concepts as well as critical views and limitations of current conceptualizations.
- Strategies, principles and tools for sustainable value chains and networks from a business and management perspective.
- Role and relevance of economic, environmental and social sustainability for contemporary firm strategies and value creation in value chains.
- The role of the firm for value chain sustainability development.
- Sustainable business models.
- Examiner
- Jakob Rehme
- Scheduled hours
- 40 h
- Main field of study
- Industriell ekonomi