Green – a special shade of innovation.
By Valentina De Marchi. How can firms change for sustainability? As political and societal pressures increase, and more and growing evidence supports a business...
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Dec 25, 2018
Youth Perspective to the Sustainability Agenda
By Charlotte Piller, Luna Stæhr Andersen and Mikkel Mezer Morgensen. If not now, when? As the days get shorter and the year slowly draws...
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Dec 17, 2018
We Need To Pay More Attention To Business Associations
Despite their key role in both national and international affairs, business associations remain strangely absent from academic discourse, teaching and research on corporate responsibility and sustainability. We clearly need to pay more attention to business associations.
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Dec 14, 2018
The CBS Sustainability (re-) Launch
This is blog post one of two throwbacks providing key insights from the speakers. By Oliver Laier. On Monday, December 3rd, a new centre...
Dec 11, 2018
Current issues in Business and Human Rights: report from the 2018 Annual Forum in Geneva
By Karin Buhmann. ‘Building on what works’ was the key topic for the annual Forum on Business and Human Rights that took place in...
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Sustainability’s Infrastructure
The project SUSTEIN is looking at localized translations of transnational sustainability standards in Kenya, the United Arab Emirates and corporate headquarters in Europe.
The BUSINESS Model is Dead: Long Live the Organizational Value Model!
By Oliver Laasch. An ApPeaRange! Business models are logics of value proposition (Pr), creation (Cr), exchange (Ex) and capture (Ca). When closely looking at...
A Taxonomy of Sustainable Business Model Patterns
By Florian Lüdeke-Freund & Sarah Carroux. In recent years, so-called “sustainable business models” are increasingly gaining in importance in both practice and research.[1] There...
Acting Collectively and Bottom-up for Sustainability: Does it work? How do we know? Why does it matter?
by Maria Josefina Figueroa. Collective bottom-up actions for sustainability are on the rise in many corners of the global community. Actions are inspired by...
Changing Sustainability Norms through Processes of Negotiation – Strategic Arguments and Collaborative Regulation
By Karin Buhmann. Two newly published CBS-authored books look at how public-private collaboration can bring sustainability norms into existence and offer recommendations for civil...
Considering Impact on the Road to Sustainability
By Paige Olmsted. Mainstreaming the environment is a key component to achieving sustainability objectives – how organizations account for their existing impact, and assess...
Role Reversal: When Business Safeguards the Public Good
By Erin Leitheiser. Earlier this week Patagonia launched what may be corporate America’s most forceful action yet against the government’s assaults on the environment...