Building a Transition Game: Corporate Social Responisibility and the airline industry

This report is the result of a project of the Science Shop of Economics, Management and Organization. The project ran in the years 2004-2005. It started with a request of Friends of the Earth - Netherlands (Milieudefensie) in Amsterdam, who were working on a project officially named ‘Network and Capacity Building Air Travel and Climate Change’, unofficially ‘The sky is the limit’ [1] . Within this project there was a possibility to develop a board game around Corporate Social Responsibility and climate change in the airline industry. The board game should act as a communication instrument for different stakeholders with widely different ‘mind frames’: the broad aim of the instrument was to facilitate better informed debate among stakeholders around the main policy issues. The game had a specific interest in making some of the underlying economics involved in the airline industry capacity and network building more clear to a non-economically trained audience. Arnoud Wolsink picked up the challenge of developing such a game in combination with writing his master thesis, supervised by Wander Jager teaching at the Faculty of Management and Organisation and Frans J. Sijtsma of the Science Shop. This Science Shop report not only presents the game as such but it also presents the theoretical and practical results of Arnoud’s master thesis; including directions for future research. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [1] This Friends of the Earth – Netherlands (Milieudefensie) project was sponsored by the Dutch ‘VROM’ – The Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environmen