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Sep 22, 2020

Private Standard-setting Organizations and the Theory of Change

Theory of Change – Evaluating Supply Chain Outcomes By Kamilla Hvid Andersen, Eileen Ryll, Dr. Caleb Gallemore and Dr. Kristjan Jespersen Due to globalization,...

Sep 4, 2020

Different pathways to sustainability standard adoption

How local norms may be able to help drive the spread of voluntary programs – the case of the RSPO in Japan. By Hattaya...

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Jun 22, 2020

What does it mean to call someone a stakeholder?

By Matthew Archer The word “stakeholder” is ubiquitous in sustainability discourse. We see it in corporate sustainability reports, policy documents, business plans, and sustainable...

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The not-so-sharing economy

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Jul 9, 2018

By Attila Marton With the rise of Airbnb and Uber into the elite club of Silicon Valley superstar firms, the sharing economy has become...

Hybrid organizing in the face of grand challenges

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Jul 3, 2018

By Ali Aslan Gümüsay. Sharing is not always caring In 2015, thousands of refugees arrived in Europe. A recent paper by Kornberger and colleagues...

Behavioural change in the work environment: a first review on MSC’s sustainable food policy.

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Jun 25, 2018

By Jan Bauer. MSC reviews six months of its sustainable food policy Setting defaults can be highly effective Guiding principles for the “right” defaults...

Big fuss about a big policy plan – and why this matters for corporate social responsibility: the Chinese social credit system

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Jun 18, 2018

By Dieter Zinnbauer & Hans Krause Hansen. Few statist policy blueprints on matters pretty technical have captured our collective imagination as has the Chinese...

‘Just Sustainabilities’ in a World of Global Value Chains

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Jun 11, 2018

By Stefano Ponte. What if we used our size and resources to make this country and this earth an even better place for all...

Wonder Tech and the Institution of Gender

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Jun 4, 2018

by Jeremy Moon “I didn’t realize that I was a woman until I went to the US.” This was the rather arresting comment of...

A Taxonomy of Sustainable Business Model Patterns

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May 28, 2018

By Florian Lüdeke-Freund & Sarah Carroux. In recent years, so-called “sustainable business models” are increasingly gaining in importance in both practice and research.[1] There...