Supplier perspectives on social responsibility in global value chains
By Peter Lund-Thomsen Worldwide there is now a search for new ideas, business models, and innovations that can help us in rebounding from the...
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Jan 12, 2021
How do the arts impact our societies in times of digitalisation?
By Kirsti Reitan Andersen and members of the Artsformation consortium Two decades into the new millennium it is almost impossible to imagine a future in which...
Jan 8, 2021
Can we pay for success in healthcare?
By Mikkel Munksgaard Demographic megatrends, such as ageing populations, challenges public health budgets in developed countries. Currently, health costs in OECD countries are growing...
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Jan 5, 2021
The maker movement – the quiet, game-changing revolution near you
By Efthymios Altsitsiadis Anyone can and should have access to the tools and knowledge necessary to build anything they might need or want. This...
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Concepts
Fresh Air: An Impact Story
By Lara Anne Hale What do fresh air, canaries, and research all have in common? Academics often humbly conduct and publish research, hoping but...
Building A Better Planet: Toward a Sustainable Post-COVID-19 Society
By Daniel C. Esty Covid-19 has dominated policy thinking across the world for several months – highlighting our vulnerability to unexpected threats, the fundamental...
The Coronavirus Pandemic – and the Consequentiality of Metaphors
By Dennis Schoeneborn Language is a reef of dead metaphors (Guy Deutscher) We are in the midst of an unfolding crisis that humanity is...
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...
Teaching (and doing) anthropology in a business school
By Matthew Archer For a while now, the discipline of anthropology has studied relatively marginalized or dispossessed people and communities, often in developing countries...
When is a banking scandal a corporate social responsibility scandal?
By Jeremy Moon I arrived in Australia to discuss and research corporate social responsibility (CSR) with colleagues at RMIT University and the University of...
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...