Helpful hypocrisy? The ‘ironic turn’ in corporate talk about sustainable development
By Sarah Glozer and Mette Morsing Do you feel uneasy to think that companies use a humorous tone in their communications about grave challenges...
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Mar 3, 2020
Just announced: And the world’s worst company is …. Really?
Why naming a hardly known German company as the world’s most controversial company inadvertently makes a lot of sense By Dieter Zinnbauer Business bashing...
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Feb 28, 2020
Responsible Tax in Multinational Enterprises – Why?
By Peter Koerver Schmidt The tax practices of multinational enterprises (MNEs) attract massive interest in these years from the general media, policymakers as well...
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Feb 21, 2020
AI: A new culprit in missing the sustainability mark?
Lara Anne Hale Artificial intelligence (AI) is championed as being the future driver of business: everything from human resources to surgery is supposed to...
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Fake news and the future of the truth
By Jan Michael Bauer At least since the last U.S. elections in 2016, the issue of “fake news” is frequently debated in the public...
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...
When is a banking scandal a corporate social responsibility scandal?
By Jeremy Moon I arrived in Australia to discuss and research corporate social responsibility (CSR) with colleagues at RMIT University and the University of...
How sustainable is ecotourism?
Written by Erin Leitheiser, this article is based on her previously written piece for the Centre for Business and Development Studies. Tourism is a...
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...
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…
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.