Sustainability’s Infrastructure
The project SUSTEIN is looking at localized translations of transnational sustainability standards in Kenya, the United Arab Emirates and corporate headquarters in Europe.
Most Recent. In Ethics.
Jun 5, 2019
More CEOs Sacked For Ethical Failure Than For Poor Financial Performance
According to a recent study, for the first time more CEOs have been dismissed for ethical lapses than for poor financial performance (in 2018). What is the lesson? I think that we overvalue compliance and undervalue the effects of a corporate culture on sustainable business decisions…
May 22, 2019
Thinking outside the box on corporate tax practice
Corporate tax practice of multinational corporations (MNC) have been the topic of intense debate in the media and among policy makers in recent years. Most recently the news broke that Amazon would pay zero tax on their more than 11 billion profit in 2018. The OECD have coordinated a large project on the topic and involved countries around the world in discussing attempted solutions to the issue of “base erosion and profit shifting” which is the technical term for states finding it challenging to tax the profits of MNCs.
Feb 26, 2019
Conquer the Lock-In: How Food Companies can act on their Political Responsibility towards Children
The overconsumption of sugar, especially among children, and its long-term health risks re-gained public awareness with the introduction of the British soda tax in 2018. What can we learn for 2019?
Ethics
The not-so-sharing economy
By Attila Marton With the rise of Airbnb and Uber into the elite club of Silicon Valley superstar firms, the sharing economy has become...
Big fuss about a big policy plan – and why this matters for corporate social responsibility: the Chinese social credit system
By Dieter Zinnbauer & Hans Krause Hansen. Few statist policy blueprints on matters pretty technical have captured our collective imagination as has the Chinese...
‘Just Sustainabilities’ in a World of Global Value Chains
By Stefano Ponte. What if we used our size and resources to make this country and this earth an even better place for all...
Droned
by Glen Whelan. A Military Heritage A drone is an unmanned aircraft. Long used to refer to male honeybees – whose main function is...
Why it Doesn’t Matter that Facers are Annoying
By Jacob Schjødt. You are walking down a high-traffic street in Copenhagen minding your own business. You’re thinking about the new pair of pants...
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...
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...