Enjoy the Silence? CSR Communication and the Phenomenon of “Greenhushing”
By Dennis Schoeneborn. Why do some companies don’t “talk their walk”? Especially SMEs face cost barriers to CSR communication Scandals or reputational crises taught...
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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…
Apr 17, 2019
Temporal Dimensions of Hypocrisy
Hypocrisy is a serious charge for social actors, especially organizations and politicians, whose profession depends on perceptions of sincerity and credibility. This post examines types and implications of hypocrisy.
Nov 20, 2017
Adventures in Materiality. Notes from the first CBS Sustainability Seminar
By Steen Vallentin. On October 31, 2017 the new CSB Sustainability seminar series was launched With a room full of practitioners and academics, the...
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CBS new Knowledge Partner of the OECD
By Karin Buhmann. In early 2017 CBS accepted an invitation from the Organisation of Economic Collaboration and Development (OECD) to become an OECD Knowledge...
Who’s responsibility is it, anyway?
By Erin Leitheiser. Workers and companies from across the globe each play a part in creating our clothes. Yet, it’s unclear who is responsible...
The Dark Side of Transparency
By Lars Thøger Christensen. Transparency is essentially about creating insight into organizational and institutional practices in order to allow for critique, stimulate improvement and...
UN Global Compact Silently Expels More than 2,300 Non-Business Participants
By Andreas Rasche. The UN Global Compact continues to “clean up” its participant base. The initiative reported to have 5,332 non-business participants (e.g., global...
Sustainable Business Model Research –Time to Leave the Twilight Zone
By Dr. Florian Lüdeke-Freund. Research on sustainable business models, or “business models for sustainability (BMfS)”, is still a niche topic in both the business...
On CSR in ship recycling and textile sector supply chain management
By Karin Buhmann. Dansk version nedenfor/Danish version below Over the past weeks, news has emerged that Maersk, the world’s largest shipping company, which is...
Stimulating subsidiaries’ learning processes: why one size-fits all approaches do not work
By Dr Gabriela Gutierrez-Huerter O. Globalisation has intensified calls for multi-national corporations (MNCs) to engage in social initiatives ranging from community outreach and environmental...