Why Transparency May Not Be Best in Facilitating Corporate responsibility
By Patrick Haack & Dennis Schoeneborn. Corporate Responsibility (CR) has become an increasingly important issue for business firms across the globe. Yet, implementing and...
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Jun 5, 2019
More CEOs Sacked For Ethical Failure Than For Poor Financial Performance
According to a recent study, for the first time more CEOs have been dismissed for ethical lapses than for poor financial performance (in 2018). What is the lesson? I think that we overvalue compliance and undervalue the effects of a corporate culture on sustainable business decisions…
May 22, 2019
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.
May 13, 2019
Who cares about sustainable fashion?
By Erin Leitheiser. Can ever-higher rates of consumption ever truly be sustainable? Consideration of up-and-coming consumers will be key to making progress in the...
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The Dark Side of Transparency
By Lars Thøger Christensen. Transparency is essentially about creating insight into organizational and institutional practices in order to allow for critique, stimulate improvement and...
The Impact of Impact: Learning experience from the UK
By Mark Learmonth. Who are we talking to when we write our articles? Does our research make any difference to the world ‘out there’,...
UN Global Compact Silently Expels More than 2,300 Non-Business Participants
By Andreas Rasche. The UN Global Compact continues to “clean up” its participant base. The initiative reported to have 5,332 non-business participants (e.g., global...
On CSR in ship recycling and textile sector supply chain management
By Karin Buhmann. Dansk version nedenfor/Danish version below Over the past weeks, news has emerged that Maersk, the world’s largest shipping company, which is...
Trump, Anti-Intellectualism and the New Role for Business
By Erin Leitheiser. For anyone who pays even vague attention to the news it is clear that this year’s U.S. election is not only...
UN Global Compact Expels More Participants than New Participants Join
By Andreas Rasche. In October 2015, the UN Global Compact, the UN’s flagship initiative for corporate responsibility and sustainability, has expelled 130 firms for...