The Ethical Blindness of Corporate Sustainability
By Andreas Rasche. Corporate sustainability (and related concepts like ESG and materiality) have been reduced to discussions around financial value. This makes these concepts...
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Mar 23, 2021
March for Gender #3: We need a manifesto for Maya, not just a celebration of John
By Pierre McDonagh and Andrea Prothero ◦ 5 min read ◦ To mark International Women’s Day 2021, the University of Bath’s Business and Society blog and...
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Mar 16, 2021
March for Gender #2: The Gendered Impact of Covid-19
By Maha Rafi Atal ◦ 5 min read ◦ Most years, International Women’s Day is greeted by articles highlighting both progress made towards gender...
Feb 25, 2021
Portfolios at risk of Deforestation
How can financial investors better understand underlying risks and act accordingly By Amanda Wildhaber, Dominik Wingeier, Jessica Brügger, Nico Meier, and Dr. Kristjan Jespersen...
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Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives and Legitimacy
By Mikkel Kruuse. Which groups of actors typically drive the standard development within Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives (MSIs) and why? Power imbalances between actors within MSIs...
Changing Sustainability Norms through Processes of Negotiation – Strategic Arguments and Collaborative Regulation
By Karin Buhmann. Two newly published CBS-authored books look at how public-private collaboration can bring sustainability norms into existence and offer recommendations for civil...
Is CSR Effectively Altruistic?
By Lot Elshuis. CSR is the part of a company that focusses on doing good. Interestingly enough, business is all about impact and effectiveness...
Adventures in Materiality. Notes from the first CBS Sustainability Seminar
By Steen Vallentin. On October 31, 2017 the new CSB Sustainability seminar series was launched With a room full of practitioners and academics, the...
Empowerment Inc.
By Lauren McCarthy. Empowering individual women will not on its own bring about a transformation in gender relations between men and women There’s a...
When Good CSR Intentions With Communities Go Bad
By Rajiv Maher. Can companies get CSR efforts “right” by engaging in dialogue with communities, thus improve relations and their impacts? Reality shows that companies tend...
’Make Feminism Radical Again’
By Jeremy Moon. Approximate reading time: 3-4 minutes. ’Make Feminism Radical Again’ – An unlikely fashion choice in some quarters but, yes, a fellow...