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...
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Jun 14, 2019
Are we trying to solve climate change, or are we merely playing the “blame game” on social media with the future of the Earth at stake?
By Daniel Lundgaard. The climate change debate is something that is on the minds of most people these days. The most recent elections in...
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.
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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...
How two CBS Alumni are Selling Ugly Fruits and Veggies for a Change
By Carolin Schiemer. Never seen a 3-legged carrot in real life? You might not be alone, because you can’t find crooked fruit and veggies...
Changing Sustainability Norms through Processes of Negotiation – Strategic Arguments and Collaborative Regulation
By Karin Buhmann. Two newly published CBS-authored books look at how public-private collaboration can bring sustainability norms into existence and offer recommendations for civil...
Investigating Emerging Responsible Corporate Tax Practice
By Sara Jespersen. In the absence of an over-arching world tax authority, much agency and power remains in the hands of the corporations operating...