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...
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Oct 14, 2019
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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Sep 25, 2019
Business + purpose = big trouble. But wait, here is one surprising point of agreement
By Dieter Zinnbauer. Reactions to the recent statement by the Business Roundtable that recognizes a regard for stakeholders rather than a narrow focus on...
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Sep 11, 2019
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...
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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...
CSR: When High Aspirations Go Low – and How to Avoid it
By Peter Winkler & Michael Etter. Managers’ public claims to improve CSR can have self-persuasive effects on corporations and their members. However, sometimes such...
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...
Is Social Media Redefining the Pursuit of Social Change?
By Daniel Lundgaard. Social media has become a battleground where NGOs with global perspectives, corporations and new digital social movements all fight to shape...
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,...
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...
Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives and Legitimacy
By Mikkel Kruuse. Which groups of actors typically drive the standard development within Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives (MSIs) and why? Power imbalances between actors within MSIs...