After #Metoo: Are We as Equal as We Would Like to Think?
By Sara Louise Muhr & Florence Villesèche. The me too movement was founded in 2006 by Tarana Burke to help survivors of sexual violence,...
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Dec 14, 2018
The CBS Sustainability (re-) Launch
This is blog post one of two throwbacks providing key insights from the speakers. By Oliver Laier. On Monday, December 3rd, a new centre...
Nov 29, 2018
Why Corporate Sustainability is Bullshit (And Why This is a Good Thing)
By Andreas Rasche. Corporate sustainability is full of statements, terms, and concepts that are empty, unclarifiable and vague. Instead of rejecting such vagueness altogether,...
Nov 17, 2018
Green – a special shade of innovation.
By Valentina De Marchi. How can firms change for sustainability? As political and societal pressures increase, and more and growing evidence supports a business...
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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...
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...