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...
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Oct 7, 2021
Are we asking the wrong questions in corporate social responsibility (CSR) research?
By Rikke Rønholt Albertsen ◦ 3 min read ◦ The sustainability contributions of business are under increased scrutiny in society. Observations of greenwashing, blue-washing, corporate hypocrisy, and...
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Nov 30, 2020
Polarization and polarized opinions – that only happens to other people, right?
By Daniel Lundgaard Recent developments in politics, especially during the American election, but also within the Danish system, has inspired a lot of talk...
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Oct 22, 2020
Friedman’s critique of CSR at 50: birthday surprises
By Jeremy Moon Sorry I am late in sending a 50th birthday card for Milton Friedman’s essay “The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase...
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Who is Responsible for Educating Students in the World’s Agenda on Sustainable Development, if not Universities?
By Louise Kofod Thomsen. In September 2017, the CBS PRME office hosted a small SDG awareness event at Solbjerg Plads. At the event, the...
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...
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...
Can Your Green Building Rub Off On You?
By Lara Anne Hale. How can the standardization of green default rules influences those living in or working with buildings? Both the green and...
CBS Hosts 6th Biennial International Symposium on Cross-Sector Social Interactions in June 2018
How can business, government, and civil society interact to better address societal challenges such as climate change, immigration, social exclusion, and poverty? The 6th...
Entrepreneurship: The Solution to Africa’s Youth Unemployment Crisis?
By Thilde Langevang and Katherine V. Gough. Small-scale entrepreneurial activities currently provide livelihoods to a large proportion of the youth population in sub-Saharan Africa...
Need an SDG Solution? Hack it.
By Lara Anne Hale. November 16 – 18, 2017 marked the beginning of a student-driven innovation era at Copenhagen Business School. The Student Innovation...