Football and the Meaning(lessness) of Management Concepts
By Esben Rahbek Gjerdrum Pedersen Romanticized management concepts often seem to fall short in capturing actual management practices in today’s corporate world. Experiences from...
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Jun 22, 2020
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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Jun 16, 2020
Tax havens, COVID-19 and sustainability
By Sara Jespersen At CBS we will host a workshop and two public events (see below for sign up) on corporate tax and inequality...
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Jun 10, 2020
I Am What I Pledge – The importance of value alignment and crowdfunder behavior
By Kristian Roed Nielsen Together with my colleague Julia Binder we recently published a paper on the role of values in driving crowdfunding backer...
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How SDGs help us see buildings through a different lens
By Ingrid Reumert Despite a lot of focus on climate change recently, the impact of one ‘hidden climate’ on people’s lives often goes unnoticed...
Regulating 300,000 Years – Nuclear Waste, Sustainability and the Need to Talk to the Distant Future
By Andreas Rasche Whenever we think about regulating sustainability problems, we usually think about the here and now or at least about the not...
Towards a Realization of Sustainability Ambitions?
By Lars Thøger Christensen Governments are increasingly being sued by citizens and NGOs for not living up to their sustainability ambitions. Recently, for example,...
Business + purpose = big trouble. But wait, here is one surprising point of agreement
By Dieter Zinnbauer. Reactions to the recent statement by the Business Roundtable that recognizes a regard for stakeholders rather than a narrow focus on...
Social Enterprises = Sharing Economy Organizations?
By Johanna Mair, Nikolas Rathert and Georg Reischauer. Sharing Economy Organizations Uber, Airbnb, and Lyft are frequently cited and popular examples of new organizational...
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...
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…