The Political Economy of the Olympics – Misconceptions about Sustainability
By Faith Hatani In the midst of the global coronavirus crisis, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Japanese government finally decided last month to...
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Feb 19, 2021
Who really cares about the SDGs when it comes to nobody’s responsibility?
By Suhyon Oh ◦ 2 min read ◦ The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the common goals of global development as we all agreed. Since its...
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Feb 16, 2021
How organizations avoid to hire highly-skilled migrants
By Annette Risberg and Laurence Romani ◦ 2 min read ◦ Labor integration of migrants is a topic frequently on the public and political agendas, as...
Jan 28, 2021
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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Sustainable Development, Interrupted?
By Steen Vallentin The coronavirus and responses to the pandemic are right now defining human existence inside and outside of organizations. All societal attention...
Ensuring effective collaboration in cross-sector partnerships: three valuable lessons for partnership managers
By Leona Henry Cross-sector partnerships (CSPs) have become a popular form of collaboration to address various sustainability matters, including plastic pollution, fair labor conditions...
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...
Consumers fall for food products with nutrition claims – what about you?
By Meike Janssen In a recent study, colleagues from the University of Kassel, Germany and me discovered that consumers fall for food products with...
Towards a Realization of Sustainability Ambitions?
By Lars Thøger Christensen Governments are increasingly being sued by citizens and NGOs for not living up to their sustainability ambitions. Recently, for example,...
Is it a right policy to focus on SDGs during Economic Slowdown?
By Anirudh Agrawal and Ashish Tyagi Economic problems of India were not addressed either in the 2019 electoral debates or in the recent annual...
Social Enterprises = Sharing Economy Organizations?
By Johanna Mair, Nikolas Rathert and Georg Reischauer. Sharing Economy Organizations Uber, Airbnb, and Lyft are frequently cited and popular examples of new organizational...