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...
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Mar 8, 2019
“We’re just geeks”: Do emergent disciplinary identities among business students affect their sense of personal responsibility?
By Maribel Blasco. Georg*: I don’t think people from Maths are like that [selfish] because it’s another environment. We treat each other kindly. We...
Feb 18, 2019
The year of corporate acting—does business need a new approach to palm oil?
By Amanda Williams, Steve Kennedy and Gail Whiteman. 2018 went down as the ‘year of corporate caring’ about the palm oil controversy. A banned...
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Dec 17, 2018
We Need To Pay More Attention To Business Associations
Despite their key role in both national and international affairs, business associations remain strangely absent from academic discourse, teaching and research on corporate responsibility and sustainability. We clearly need to pay more attention to business associations.
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A Taxonomy of Sustainable Business Model Patterns
By Florian Lüdeke-Freund & Sarah Carroux. In recent years, so-called “sustainable business models” are increasingly gaining in importance in both practice and research.[1] There...
Making it to the World Heritage List: Envisioned and Hidden Effects
By Lotte Thomsen. UNESCO’s World Heritage designation of places around the world has the honorable purpose of taking responsibility. Taking responsibility for the preservation...
The Winners and Losers of Reward-based Crowdfunding
By Kristian Roed Nielsen. Proponents of reward-based crowdfunding have touted its emergence as an alternative source of innovation finance as an exciting and democratizing...
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,...
How two CBS Alumni are Selling Ugly Fruits and Veggies for a Change
By Carolin Schiemer. Never seen a 3-legged carrot in real life? You might not be alone, because you can’t find crooked fruit and veggies...
Investigating Emerging Responsible Corporate Tax Practice
By Sara Jespersen. In the absence of an over-arching world tax authority, much agency and power remains in the hands of the corporations operating...
Banking on the Future – Driving Responsibility and Sustainability in the Financial Sector
By Lavinia Iosif-Lazar. While the world seems to have moved on from the last financial crisis, one can only wonder if banks and financial...