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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Jan 21, 2020
Better than nothing but still “exSASBerating”!
By Dieter Zinnbauer. Why a powerful push by the world’s top asset manager towards more sustainability reporting still falls pretty short. Great news BlackRock,...
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Jan 16, 2020
We can’t better the world at once. So let’s do it together!
By Julia Köhler Sustainability – a concept that accompanies us every day: whether it is sustainable consumption, sustainable nutrition, sustainable traveling or sustainable management....
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Dec 18, 2019
Teaching (and doing) anthropology in a business school
By Matthew Archer For a while now, the discipline of anthropology has studied relatively marginalized or dispossessed people and communities, often in developing countries...
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Dec 11, 2019
When business is not as usual – why companies should engage with humanitarian crises
By Verena Girschik and Jasper Hotho As evidenced in places such as Syria and Yemen, humanitarian crises are becoming ever more complex (OCHA, 2017a). In...
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The year of corporate acting—does business need a new approach to palm oil?
By Amanda Williams, Steve Kennedy and Gail Whiteman. 2018 went down as the ‘year of corporate caring’ about the palm oil controversy. A banned...
The Government of Business Responsibility
Governments can play a significant role in promoting or shaping the social responsibility of businesses. This post shows some recent policies which foster the public good.
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...