A Southern-centered perspective on climate change in global value chains?
By Peter Lund-Thomsen ◦ 2 min read ◦ The garment and textile industries account for around 10% of global CO2 emissions, and their fast fashion approach...
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Dec 2, 2021
“A Little Less Unsustainable Is Not the Same as Sustainable” – Why Including Fossil Gas and Nuclear Power Will Harm the EU Taxonomy
By Andreas Rasche ◦ 3 min read ◦ The EU Taxonomy reflects a classification system that assesses whether certain economic activities are environmentally sustainable. Without...
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Nov 17, 2021
Climate Change and Magical Thinking
By Steen Vallentin ◦ 7 min read ◦ COP26, the 26th UN Climate Change Conference, has just ended. It was supposed to be ‘the next...
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Oct 19, 2021
How the EU Taxonomy Impacts Businesses Beyond Europe
By Andreas Rasche ◦ 4 min read ◦ In 2020, the EU launched its classification system for environmentally sustainable economic activities, the so-called “EU Taxonomy Regulation”...
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The Uberization of corporate political action
By Dieter Zinnbauer With more than USD 12 billion spent the 2020 US election cycle may well have been the most expensive political campaign...
Insecure work: rethinking precarity through Kenya’s tea plantations
By Hannah Elliott Over the last decade, the term ‘precarity’ has become ubiquitous in studies of work and labor, as jobs are increasingly characterized...
Delivering and Financing Better Societies
How can cities self-finance environmental and social solutions? By Luise Noring Every week, more than three million people move into cities looking for places...
Top Leadership Compensation: From Hockey-Stick to Shared Pay-checks
“Sharing is Caring” is a way to manage post-COVID19 Economic Crises and Layoffs By Anirudh Agrawal & Bharat Dhamani 10 of the 25 Linkedin...
Branding in the COVID-19 pandemic
Not every time is the right time for real-time marketing By Maha Rafi Atal and Lisa Ann Richey This article is based on previously written...
Economics for Life
Time for a New Economics By Sandra Waddock Steen Valentin recently pointed out in a BOS blog that we – and particularly economists –...
Is Tourism an Essential Industry?
Can it really be true that we don’t need to travel? By Elizabeth Cooper The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically highlighted those workers and industries...