What does it mean to call someone a stakeholder?
By Matthew Archer The word “stakeholder” is ubiquitous in sustainability discourse. We see it in corporate sustainability reports, policy documents, business plans, and sustainable...
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Apr 20, 2021
Responsible to whom and for what?
Contestations of CSR across time, space, and experience … and a Call for Papers By Jeremy Moon ◦ 3 min read ◦ It is well known...
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Jan 21, 2021
Innovating Under Pressure – Grassroots’ social and distributed manufacturing during the pandemic
By Isabel Fróes As Bowie almost made a prediction when he sang in his lyrics from 1981: ‘It’s the terror of knowing what this world...
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Sep 4, 2020
Different pathways to sustainability standard adoption
How local norms may be able to help drive the spread of voluntary programs – the case of the RSPO in Japan. By Hattaya...
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Supplier perspectives on social responsibility in global value chains
By Peter Lund-Thomsen Worldwide there is now a search for new ideas, business models, and innovations that can help us in rebounding from the...
Fresh Air: An Impact Story
By Lara Anne Hale What do fresh air, canaries, and research all have in common? Academics often humbly conduct and publish research, hoping but...
Building A Better Planet: Toward a Sustainable Post-COVID-19 Society
By Daniel C. Esty Covid-19 has dominated policy thinking across the world for several months – highlighting our vulnerability to unexpected threats, the fundamental...
On the Ground: What CSR and sustainability standards fail to address
By Hannah Elliott In the fall of 2019, there was a flurry of news stories in the British media about political events in western...
In Movement from Tanzania to Northern Italy to Denmark
By Lisa Ann Richey This article is based on her previously written piece for the Centre for Business and Development Studies. My first memory...
Sustainable Development, Interrupted?
By Steen Vallentin The coronavirus and responses to the pandemic are right now defining human existence inside and outside of organizations. All societal attention...
Ensuring effective collaboration in cross-sector partnerships: three valuable lessons for partnership managers
By Leona Henry Cross-sector partnerships (CSPs) have become a popular form of collaboration to address various sustainability matters, including plastic pollution, fair labor conditions...