AI: A new culprit in missing the sustainability mark?
Lara Anne Hale Artificial intelligence (AI) is championed as being the future driver of business: everything from human resources to surgery is supposed to...
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Mar 18, 2020
Normalizing Sustainability
By John Robinson, University of Toronto We often hear the argument that, given the urgency of climate change and sustainability concerns, significant changes to...
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Mar 12, 2020
Sustainable Consumer Behavior: Go Big or Go Home?
By Laura Krumm In recent years, news on issues such as climate change, environmental degradation and plastic pollution was almost inescapable. At least in...
Mar 5, 2020
Ensuring effective collaboration in cross-sector partnerships: three valuable lessons for partnership managers
By Leona Henry Cross-sector partnerships (CSPs) have become a popular form of collaboration to address various sustainability matters, including plastic pollution, fair labor conditions...
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Mar 3, 2020
Just announced: And the world’s worst company is …. Really?
Why naming a hardly known German company as the world’s most controversial company inadvertently makes a lot of sense By Dieter Zinnbauer Business bashing...
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Is it a right policy to focus on SDGs during Economic Slowdown?
By Anirudh Agrawal and Ashish Tyagi Economic problems of India were not addressed either in the 2019 electoral debates or in the recent annual...
Thinking outside the box on corporate tax practice
Corporate tax practice of multinational corporations (MNC) have been the topic of intense debate in the media and among policy makers in recent years. Most recently the news broke that Amazon would pay zero tax on their more than 11 billion profit in 2018. The OECD have coordinated a large project on the topic and involved countries around the world in discussing attempted solutions to the issue of “base erosion and profit shifting” which is the technical term for states finding it challenging to tax the profits of MNCs.
Conquer the Lock-In: How Food Companies can act on their Political Responsibility towards Children
The overconsumption of sugar, especially among children, and its long-term health risks re-gained public awareness with the introduction of the British soda tax in 2018. What can we learn for 2019?
The year of corporate acting—does business need a new approach to palm oil?
By Amanda Williams, Steve Kennedy and Gail Whiteman. 2018 went down as the ‘year of corporate caring’ about the palm oil controversy. A banned...
Corporate contributions to United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals
The days of corporate greening are over. Many companies kicked off their sustainability strategies decades ago by picking the low-hanging fruit. But there is nothing left within arm’s reach to pick. Now we expect companies big and small to demonstrate their contribution to broader societal and environmental sustainability challenges beyond firm boundaries.
The Academic Smarts in the Smart City
By Lara Anne Hale. Smart Cities 101 Last week I had the pleasure of being one of eight students to join the University of...
Fake news and what it means for discussions about CSR-related issues
By Daniel Lundgaard. There is a saying on online forums that “About 78% of all statistics shared online are made up to prove a...
Green – a special shade of innovation.
By Valentina De Marchi. How can firms change for sustainability? As political and societal pressures increase, and more and growing evidence supports a business...
The Government of Business Responsibility
Governments can play a significant role in promoting or shaping the social responsibility of businesses. This post shows some recent policies which foster the public good.
Sustainability’s Infrastructure
The project SUSTEIN is looking at localized translations of transnational sustainability standards in Kenya, the United Arab Emirates and corporate headquarters in Europe.
The BUSINESS Model is Dead: Long Live the Organizational Value Model!
By Oliver Laasch. An ApPeaRange! Business models are logics of value proposition (Pr), creation (Cr), exchange (Ex) and capture (Ca). When closely looking at...
Normalizing Sustainability
By John Robinson, University of Toronto We often hear the argument that, given the urgency of climate change and sustainability concerns, significant changes to...
Sustainable Consumer Behavior: Go Big or Go Home?
By Laura Krumm In recent years, news on issues such as climate change, environmental degradation and plastic pollution was almost inescapable. At least in...
Ensuring effective collaboration in cross-sector partnerships: three valuable lessons for partnership managers
By Leona Henry Cross-sector partnerships (CSPs) have become a popular form of collaboration to address various sustainability matters, including plastic pollution, fair labor conditions...
Just announced: And the world’s worst company is …. Really?
Why naming a hardly known German company as the world’s most controversial company inadvertently makes a lot of sense By Dieter Zinnbauer Business bashing...
Responsible Tax in Multinational Enterprises – Why?
By Peter Koerver Schmidt The tax practices of multinational enterprises (MNEs) attract massive interest in these years from the general media, policymakers as well...
Lead where others follow
By Sim de la Torre One of the most exciting and influential areas of business today, Governance & Sustainability has also become a must-have...
Helpful hypocrisy? The ‘ironic turn’ in corporate talk about sustainable development
By Sarah Glozer and Mette Morsing Do you feel uneasy to think that companies use a humorous tone in their communications about grave challenges...