The Sustainable Development Goals: Elite Pluralism, not Democratic Governance
By Daniel Esser. Was the process leading up to the SDGs really an exercise in global democratic policy making? Although broad consultation efforts shaped...
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Apr 16, 2018
Why it Doesn’t Matter that Facers are Annoying
By Jacob Schjødt. You are walking down a high-traffic street in Copenhagen minding your own business. You’re thinking about the new pair of pants...
Apr 9, 2018
CSR: When High Aspirations Go Low – and How to Avoid it
By Peter Winkler & Michael Etter. Managers’ public claims to improve CSR can have self-persuasive effects on corporations and their members. However, sometimes such...
Apr 3, 2018
The Winners and Losers of Reward-based Crowdfunding
By Kristian Roed Nielsen. Proponents of reward-based crowdfunding have touted its emergence as an alternative source of innovation finance as an exciting and democratizing...
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Mar 26, 2018
Is Social Media Redefining the Pursuit of Social Change?
By Daniel Lundgaard. Social media has become a battleground where NGOs with global perspectives, corporations and new digital social movements all fight to shape...
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Corporate Criminal Liability in Germany – An Idea Whose Time Has Come
By Andreas Rasche. Siemens, Volkswagen, Deutsche Bank … and now Airbus. What is wrong with German companies? It seems that German firms are disproportionally...
Empowerment Inc.
By Lauren McCarthy. Empowering individual women will not on its own bring about a transformation in gender relations between men and women There’s a...
When Good CSR Intentions With Communities Go Bad
By Rajiv Maher. Can companies get CSR efforts “right” by engaging in dialogue with communities, thus improve relations and their impacts? Reality shows that companies tend...
Business and Open Government / Open Data – An Advocacy Role for Business?
By Dieter Zinnbauer. There is a much needed conversation on what stronger role business could and should take in the realm of open data...
Another Inconvenient Truth: “Win-Win” Only Won’t Transform Our World
By Katherine Richardson. A green growth project can contribute to sustainable development, but this is by no means a given Characterized by a singular...
’Make Feminism Radical Again’
By Jeremy Moon. Approximate reading time: 3-4 minutes. ’Make Feminism Radical Again’ – An unlikely fashion choice in some quarters but, yes, a fellow...
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...
