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...
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Mar 18, 2020
Normalizing Sustainability
By John Robinson, University of Toronto We often hear the argument that, given the urgency of climate change and sustainability concerns, significant changes to...
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Mar 12, 2020
Sustainable Consumer Behavior: Go Big or Go Home?
By Laura Krumm In recent years, news on issues such as climate change, environmental degradation and plastic pollution was almost inescapable. At least in...
Mar 5, 2020
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...
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Mar 3, 2020
Just announced: And the world’s worst company is …. Really?
Why naming a hardly known German company as the world’s most controversial company inadvertently makes a lot of sense By Dieter Zinnbauer Business bashing...
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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...
Crowdfunding as a cooperative movement – The present and future of crowdfunding in Denmark
By Kristian Roed Nielsen. How does crowdfunding look like in Denmark and where is it heading? Drawing on empirical data from two well-known reward-based...
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…
Global yet green? How governance influences upgrading opportunities
The fragmentation of production and integration of trade creates important opportunities for firms and territories, especially if located in emerging economies, to grow and learn. Yet not all the global relationships are conducive of economic, social or environmental upgrading.
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.
Who cares about sustainable fashion?
By Erin Leitheiser. Can ever-higher rates of consumption ever truly be sustainable? Consideration of up-and-coming consumers will be key to making progress in the...