Football and the Meaning(lessness) of Management Concepts
By Esben Rahbek Gjerdrum Pedersen Romanticized management concepts often seem to fall short in capturing actual management practices in today’s corporate world. Experiences from...
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Feb 21, 2020
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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Feb 12, 2020
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...
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Feb 11, 2020
Fake news and the future of the truth
By Jan Michael Bauer At least since the last U.S. elections in 2016, the issue of “fake news” is frequently debated in the public...
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How SDGs help us see buildings through a different lens
By Ingrid Reumert Despite a lot of focus on climate change recently, the impact of one ‘hidden climate’ on people’s lives often goes unnoticed...
Consumers fall for food products with nutrition claims – what about you?
By Meike Janssen In a recent study, colleagues from the University of Kassel, Germany and me discovered that consumers fall for food products with...
Regulating 300,000 Years – Nuclear Waste, Sustainability and the Need to Talk to the Distant Future
By Andreas Rasche Whenever we think about regulating sustainability problems, we usually think about the here and now or at least about the not...
Towards a Realization of Sustainability Ambitions?
By Lars Thøger Christensen Governments are increasingly being sued by citizens and NGOs for not living up to their sustainability ambitions. Recently, for example,...
How sustainable is ecotourism?
Written by Erin Leitheiser, this article is based on her previously written piece for the Centre for Business and Development Studies. Tourism is a...
We Need To Pay More Attention To Business Associations
Despite their key role in both national and international affairs, business associations remain strangely absent from academic discourse, teaching and research on corporate responsibility and sustainability. We clearly need to pay more attention to business associations.