Introduction
At the heart of UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are an urgent call for action by all countries - developed and developing - in a global partnership. This course will follow up Course 1 Bærekraft basic, focusing explicitly on goal 17, partnerships. We will transfer the idea of partnerships to an organizational level and focus on how firms and other entities create value-together. This is the domain of cooperative strategy where the idea is to ‘become better with others’, rather than trying to ‘be better than others’. We will work with frameworks and tools that acknowledge the interdependencies that organizations need work with in a systematic way to be able to co-create value. Goal 17 is, an many ways, a meta-goal, or a means to an end, in the sense that the quality of partnerships, on different levels of analysis, have a significant impact on many other goals.