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...
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Mar 12, 2020
Sustainable Consumer Behavior: Go Big or Go Home?
By Laura Krumm In recent years, news on issues such as climate change, environmental degradation and plastic pollution was almost inescapable. At least in...
Mar 5, 2020
Ensuring effective collaboration in cross-sector partnerships: three valuable lessons for partnership managers
By Leona Henry Cross-sector partnerships (CSPs) have become a popular form of collaboration to address various sustainability matters, including plastic pollution, fair labor conditions...
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Mar 3, 2020
Just announced: And the world’s worst company is …. Really?
Why naming a hardly known German company as the world’s most controversial company inadvertently makes a lot of sense By Dieter Zinnbauer Business bashing...
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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...
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...
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...
Is it a right policy to focus on SDGs during Economic Slowdown?
By Anirudh Agrawal and Ashish Tyagi Economic problems of India were not addressed either in the 2019 electoral debates or in the recent annual...
Business + purpose = big trouble. But wait, here is one surprising point of agreement
By Dieter Zinnbauer. Reactions to the recent statement by the Business Roundtable that recognizes a regard for stakeholders rather than a narrow focus on...
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…