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Jun 8, 2020

Supplier perspectives on social responsibility in global value chains

By Peter Lund-Thomsen Worldwide there is now a search for new ideas, business models, and innovations that can help us in rebounding from the...

Jun 4, 2020

The rise of social media bots – how do they work, and how can you spot them?

By Daniel Lundgaard Bots and their impact on online conversations is rapidly becoming an important problem on social media. If we look at the...

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Jun 2, 2020

Fresh Air: An Impact Story

By Lara Anne Hale What do fresh air, canaries, and research all have in common? Academics often humbly conduct and publish research, hoping but...

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AI: A new culprit in missing the sustainability mark?

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Feb 21, 2020

Lara Anne Hale Artificial intelligence (AI) is championed as being the future driver of business: everything from human resources to surgery is supposed to...

Helpful hypocrisy? The ‘ironic turn’ in corporate talk about sustainable development

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Feb 12, 2020

By Sarah Glozer and Mette Morsing Do you feel uneasy to think that companies use a humorous tone in their communications about grave challenges...

Why consultations on large projects should matter to citizens as well as companies

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Feb 7, 2020

By Karin Buhmann, Sanne Vammen Larsen and Anna-Sofie Hurup Skjervedal. This article is based on their previously written piece for the Centre for Business...

Female entrepreneurs & reward-based crowdfunding: Offline inequality and online equality?

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Feb 3, 2020

By Kristian Roed Nielsen Traditional sources of entrepreneurial finance tend to favor men, while female entrepreneurs are often bypassed. Thielst, G.H. (2019), for example,...

SDG 17 check in: cross-sector partnerships from the beneficiary perspective?

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Jan 27, 2020

By Anne Vestergaard, Luisa Murphy, Mette Morsing and Thilde Langevang Have you ever wondered how SDG 17 is, in fact, delivering on its promise?...

When business is not as usual – why companies should engage with humanitarian crises

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Dec 11, 2019

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...

How sustainable is ecotourism?

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Oct 29, 2019

Written by Erin Leitheiser, this article is based on her previously written piece for the Centre for Business and Development Studies. Tourism is a...