SOEE 1390 - Introduction to Business, Environment and Corporate
Responsibility
Critical Review 1
This assessment asks you to critically evaluate the real-world implications of
the material covered in Weeks 15, 16, 17 & 18: The Grand Theories and
Perspectives from consumers and companies.
Assignment Details
Drawing on what you have learned about business and its responsibilities,
sustainability in organisations, and consumer behaviour, and using an
organisation of your choice as a case study, address the following:
• Identify your case study’s business strategy and discuss, based on
evidence from academic and grey literature, how it constitutes a
driver or barrier to the creation of value (include what value and for
whom);
• Identify key sustainability outcomes the organisation delivers and
others that could potentially deliver. Explain how the latter could be
achieved, including what needs to change at the organisational level
for that to happen.
Your answer should draw on the theoretical concepts and practical
examples covered in weeks 15, 16, 17 & 18, as well as your own
independent reading of the academic literature.
Your work must reflect a unique perspective and discussion based on
academic and grey literature, including sector-specific corporate
sources. Note that while it is appropriate to use reputable media
sources and non-academic literature in your examples, your
discussion of theory must cite appropriate academic sources.
Practical details:
• Word count is 2,000 words (plus references);
• Assignment is due in Week 20 (Thursday, the 14th of March, by 2 pm);
• Use the Leeds Harvard form of referencing;
• Note that usual school penalties apply for late submission or exceeding word
count (see the Code of Practice on Assessment section 3.3);
• To be submitted online via the Turnitin Box set up on Minerva;
• Ensure that the assignment has your student ID included on the first page;
• Name your document as follows: Your Student ID-SOEE1390-Review 1.
Statement on Generative AI Category for this Coursework:
Generative AI category: AMBER
Under this category, AI tools can be used in this assessment in an assistive
role for the specifically defined processes.
In this assessment, AI tools can be utilised in an assistive role to:
• act as a support tutor to aid in the research of a topic.
• provide ideas or inspiration to help you overcome a creative block.
In this assessment, AI tools cannot be utilised to:
• produce the entirety of, or sections of, a piece of work that you submit
for assessment beyond that which is outlined above.
The use of Generative AI must be acknowledged in an ‘Acknowledgements’
section of any piece of academic work where it has been used as a functional
tool to assist in the process of creating academic work. The minimum
requirement to include in acknowledgement:
• Name and version of the generative AI system used eg ChatGPT-4.0
• Publisher (company that made the AI system) eg OpenAI
• URL of the AI system
• Brief description (single sentence) of context in which the tool was
used.
The standard Academic Misconduct procedure applies for students believed
to have ignored this categorisation.
For detailed guidance see https://generative-ai.leeds.ac.uk/ai-and
assessments/categories-of-assessments/