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By Oliver Laier. This entry is not one of the usual kind. Rather you will find thoughts about this blog as such, its motivation,...
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Jan 21, 2020
Better than nothing but still “exSASBerating”!
By Dieter Zinnbauer. Why a powerful push by the world’s top asset manager towards more sustainability reporting still falls pretty short. Great news BlackRock,...
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Dec 11, 2019
When business is not as usual – why companies should engage with humanitarian crises
By Verena Girschik and Jasper Hotho As evidenced in places such as Syria and Yemen, humanitarian crises are becoming ever more complex (OCHA, 2017a). In...
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Dec 5, 2019
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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Hybrid organizing in the face of grand challenges
By Ali Aslan Gümüsay. Sharing is not always caring In 2015, thousands of refugees arrived in Europe. A recent paper by Kornberger and colleagues...
Wonder Tech and the Institution of Gender
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...
Bottom-up Sustainability: Let’s make CBS the First Business School with a Green Community Currency!
by Stine Eiersholt & Lena Tünkers. In an earlier BOS article, Louise Thomsen from CBS PRME asked the question whether universities are falling behind...
CSR: When High Aspirations Go Low – and How to Avoid it
By Peter Winkler & Michael Etter. Managers’ public claims to improve CSR can have self-persuasive effects on corporations and their members. However, sometimes such...
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,...
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...