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...
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Dec 11, 2019
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...
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Dec 5, 2019
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...
Oct 29, 2019
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...
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Ethics
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.
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?
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.
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...