Helpful hypocrisy? The ‘ironic turn’ in corporate talk about sustainable development
By Sarah Glozer and Mette Morsing Do you feel uneasy to think that companies use a humorous tone in their communications about grave challenges...
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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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How sustainable is ecotourism?
Written by Erin Leitheiser, this article is based on her previously written piece for the Centre for Business and Development Studies. Tourism is a...
Is it a right policy to focus on SDGs during Economic Slowdown?
By Anirudh Agrawal and Ashish Tyagi Economic problems of India were not addressed either in the 2019 electoral debates or in the recent annual...
Entrepreneurship: The Solution to Africa’s Youth Unemployment Crisis?
By Thilde Langevang and Katherine V. Gough. Small-scale entrepreneurial activities currently provide livelihoods to a large proportion of the youth population in sub-Saharan Africa...
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...