Raising the bar for sustainable events
By Louise Thomsen How often do we as event coordinators ask ourselves: how can I minimize the plastic use, the waste, the paper? I...
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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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Feeling the Pain
By Robin Porsfelt. While the recent US ’opioid crisis’ has been widely reported, a second, less recognized, crisis related to opioids has been taking...
“Publish or Perish”
by Luisa Murphy In academia -especially for young researchers- there seems to be only one way to the top: publish frequently and in well-regarded...
The not-so-sharing economy
By Attila Marton With the rise of Airbnb and Uber into the elite club of Silicon Valley superstar firms, the sharing economy has become...
Hybrid organizing in the face of grand challenges
By Ali Aslan Gümüsay. Sharing is not always caring In 2015, thousands of refugees arrived in Europe. A recent paper by Kornberger and colleagues...
Behavioural change in the work environment: a first review on MSC’s sustainable food policy.
By Jan Bauer. MSC reviews six months of its sustainable food policy Setting defaults can be highly effective Guiding principles for the “right” defaults...
Big fuss about a big policy plan – and why this matters for corporate social responsibility: the Chinese social credit system
By Dieter Zinnbauer & Hans Krause Hansen. Few statist policy blueprints on matters pretty technical have captured our collective imagination as has the Chinese...
‘Just Sustainabilities’ in a World of Global Value Chains
By Stefano Ponte. What if we used our size and resources to make this country and this earth an even better place for all...