Constructing Social Portfolios: A Quantitative versus Screening Approach
By Alina Hofer, Lea Katharina Kasper & Dr. Kristjan Jespersen ◦ 5 min read ◦ When we talk about ESG, one could argue that there...
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Jun 27, 2022
Constructing Social Portfolios: A Quantitative versus Screening Approach
By Alina Hofer, Lea Katharina Kasper & Dr. Kristjan Jespersen ◦ 5 min read ◦ When we talk about ESG, one could argue that there...
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Jun 24, 2022
Corporate social responsibility and societal governance
By Jeremy Moon ◦ 3 min read ◦ Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine reminds us that corporate social responsibility (CSR) is both a reflection of the times...
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Jun 23, 2022
Do nudges work in organisations?
By Leonie Decrinis ◦ 3 min read ◦ Introduced by Thaler and Sunstein in 2008, nudges have become popular policy tools to change the behaviour of...
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Jun 17, 2022
ESG investing in a changing regulatory environment: investing in active or passive ESG financial products?
By Marco Morazzoni and Dr. Kristjan Jespersen ◦ 8 min read ◦ The impending climate crisis emphasizes the need to mobilize large-scale investments to finance...
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Corporate social responsibility and societal governance
By Jeremy Moon ◦ 3 min read ◦ Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine reminds us that corporate social responsibility (CSR) is both a reflection of the times...
Do nudges work in organisations?
By Leonie Decrinis ◦ 3 min read ◦ Introduced by Thaler and Sunstein in 2008, nudges have become popular policy tools to change the behaviour of...
ESG investing in a changing regulatory environment: investing in active or passive ESG financial products?
By Marco Morazzoni and Dr. Kristjan Jespersen ◦ 8 min read ◦ The impending climate crisis emphasizes the need to mobilize large-scale investments to finance...
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Asia: Then and now
By Wendy Chapple & Jeremy Moon ◦ 3 min read ◦ This blog post is a repost and has first been published by Business and Society (BAS) blog...
Institutions matter: The importance of institutional quality when embedding sustainability within the capitalistic realm
By Lisa Bernt Elboth, Adrian Rudolf Doppler, & Dr. Kristjan Jespersen ◦ 5 min read ◦ Institutions not only structure any sort of social interaction...
Corporate sanctions in the context of the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Summary of the discussion with Sophia Opatska at CBS ◦ 8 min read ◦ This blog post is a repost and has first been published by UCU Business...
Foodback Loop: Developing Sustainable Food Systems for a Circular Society
By Bruna Carvalho and Lucia Reisch ◦ 4 min read ◦ The Sixth IPCC Assessment Report warns that crops are more frequently lost due to...
Innovation as a Survival Mechanism during the COVID-19 pandemic: Successful examples from the foodservice industry
By Anna Sophie Hauge, Marie Haadem and Meike Janssen ◦ 4 min read ◦ Innovation fosters creativity and generates growth – especially in times of...
Sustainability enabler or complexity blinder?
By Milena Karen Bär & Dr. Kristjan Jespersen ◦ 5 min read ◦ The first step of the EU Action Plan of Sustainable Finance New...
How do we think about sustainable investing? Suggestions from an exploratory study
By Margherita Massazza & Dr. Kristjan Jespersen ◦ 4 min read ◦ From the outset, this blog post takes the perspective that behavioral finance is...
No Trees, No Future: How can we unlock the full potential of conservation finance?
By Dr. Kristjan Jespersen, Dr. Izabela Delabre, Dr. Caleb Gallemore, and Dr. Katryn Pasaribu ◦ 3 min read ◦ Tropical deforestation continues at alarming rates, with 12 million hectares...
EU proposal on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence for human rights and the environment
Advancing responsible business conduct, but failing to consider key functional challenges for remedy By Karin Buhmann ◦ 9 min read ◦ Why is the proposal...
How do we find the green elephant in the classroom?
By Lavinia Cristina Iosif-Lazar, Jens Riemer and Caroline A. Pontoppidan “Environmental sustainability to be at the core of EU education and training systems” –...
CBS Permahaven: A new campus chapter
By Isabel Fróes and Maribel Blasco ◦ 2 min read ◦ Sustainability – finding ways to walk the talk We report here on a new...
Sustainable labour market integration: challenges and advancements in algorithmic profiling of jobseekers
By Clément Brébion and Janine Leschke ◦ 5 min read ◦ The number of countries that are using algorithms to profile jobseekers has been on...
Do Tourists Like Nudges?
By Elizabeth Cooper ◦ 4 min read ◦ Nudges have been successfully implemented in various social settings, as a method of guiding people’s decisions in...
How Should Arctic Drilling Be Defined? The 3 Key Problems with Formulating Investment Exclusions
By Zuzanna Lewandowska and Dr. Kristjan Jespersen ◦ 7 min read ◦ Oil and gas development in the Arctic has long been a subject of...
Lobbying as if it mattered
By Dieter Zinnbauer ◦ 6 min read ◦ The corporate political activities of a business – let’s call them “lobbying” as a shorthand, although they...
Are sustainable and healthy diets always compatible? Needs for an emic-oriented cultural research on sustainable consumption
By Fumiko Kano Glückstad ◦ 6 min read ◦ It is widely acknowledged that a plant-based diet is healthier than an animal-based diet (Willett, et...
Negative Capability: Sustaining our discomfort towards a collectively responsible society
By Tali Padan ◦ 3 min read ◦ In my PhD studies, I work with a different type of sustainability. Not the sustainability of carbon footprints...
To stay or to go: Corporate complicity in human rights abuses after the coup d’état in Myanmar
By Verena Girschik & Htwe Htwe Thein ◦ 2 min read ◦ Foreign investors in Myanmar have come under increasingly intense pressure to cut ties...
“A Little Less Unsustainable Is Not the Same as Sustainable” – Why Including Fossil Gas and Nuclear Power Will Harm the EU Taxonomy
By Andreas Rasche ◦ 3 min read ◦ The EU Taxonomy reflects a classification system that assesses whether certain economic activities are environmentally sustainable. Without...
Moving towards mandatory CSR – EU’s mandatory Human Rights Due Diligence proposal
By Johanna Jarvela ◦ 2 min read ◦ Last March European parliament gave a proposal to create mandatory Human Rights Due Diligence directive. The aim is to prevent...
Sustainable brands on Black Friday: What do consumers perceive as authentic?
By Nina Böntgen, Sara Derse and Meike Janssen ◦ 4 min read ◦ The fashion industry has repeatedly come under fire for its negative effects...
Climate Change and Magical Thinking
By Steen Vallentin ◦ 7 min read ◦ COP26, the 26th UN Climate Change Conference, has just ended. It was supposed to be ‘the next...
Why we should not call for experts instead of experiments
By Jan Michael Bauer ◦ 3 min read ◦ The recent elections in Germany turned out as the historic loss for conservatives that pollsters have...
How the EU Taxonomy Impacts Businesses Beyond Europe
By Andreas Rasche ◦ 4 min read ◦ In 2020, the EU launched its classification system for environmentally sustainable economic activities, the so-called “EU Taxonomy Regulation”...
White People and the Animals they Love
Book Review of Saving Endangered Species: Lessons in Wildlife Conservation from Indianapolis Prize Winners By Lisa Ann Richey ◦ 6 min read ◦ This book review has...
Are we asking the wrong questions in corporate social responsibility (CSR) research?
By Rikke Rønholt Albertsen ◦ 3 min read ◦ The sustainability contributions of business are under increased scrutiny in society. Observations of greenwashing, blue-washing, corporate hypocrisy, and...
Why transparency may not lead straight to CSR paradise
By Dennis Schoeneborn ◦ 2 min read ◦ Business firms worldwide are increasingly engaging in practices of corporate social responsibility (CSR), a trend strongly driven also...
Nudging for a Better Workplace: How to Gently Guide Employees Towards Ethical Behaviour
By Leonie Decrinis ◦ 2 min read ◦ Corporate scandals caused by unethical behaviour can have dramatic consequences for a company’s bottom line. The Volkswagen emission...
Are social media platforms good places to discuss global challenges?
By Daniel Lundgaard ◦ 3 min read ◦ According to a recent analysis by Datareportal, the number of active social media users grew globally by 13.2%...
Connecting, Cohering, and Amplifying: The Work of Transformation Catalysts
By Sandra Waddock and Steve Waddell ◦ 4 min read ◦ The shocking 2021 IPCC report on the climate emergency makes clearer than ever that...
Social impact bonds in the Nordics: insights from ‘Copenhagen Impact Investing Days 2021’
By Mikkel M. Andersen and Ferran Torres ◦ 5 min read ◦ A social impact bond (SIB) is an innovative model for public service delivery...
The Concept of Fragmented Labour Markets
By Janine Leschke and Sonja Bekker ◦ 4 min read ◦ The employment and social impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic have been larger on some...
The maker movement, the quiet, game-changing revolution near you #2
By Efthymios Altsitsiadis ◦ 5 min read ◦ One of the most overlooked and yet promising agents in the fight against climate change and towards...
Like oil and water…. Shell’s climate responsibility and human rights
By Kristian Høyer Toft, PhD ◦ 4 min read ◦ In a landmark verdict at the district court in the Hague on 26th May this...
The fear of becoming the hotspot of infectious diseases: Who is concerned and why?
By Fumiko Kano Glückstad ◦ 4 min read ◦ Denmark is opening the borders for tourists from our neighboring countries in Northern Europe after a...
Start me up – helping citizen engagement become the hot new kid on the block
By Isabel Fróes ◦ 4 min read ◦ In recent years, through experience and discussions in various projects and workshops dealing with urban development, this key...
Corporate democratic responsibility – messy and difficult, yet urgent and without alternative
By Dieter Zinnbauer ◦ 4 min read ◦ We live in politically tumultuous times. Authoritarianism is on the rise again across the world. Democratic freedoms have...
Mapping unchartered territory: Ecuador’s journey to sustainable palm oil
By Mathilde Birn, Sanne Qvarfordh, & Dr. Kristjan Jespersen ◦ 3 min read ◦ Sustainability certifications have become a widely used mechanism to signal to...
Is Seeing Knowing? When Visibility Reduce Transparency
By Lars Thøger Christensen ◦ 3 min read ◦ We are arguably living in an era of visibility in which our communicative interactions with others...
Unaccounted Risk: The Case of Sulfur Hexafluoride (SF6) in Offshore Wind Energy
By Esben Holst & Dr. Kristjan Jespersen ◦ 5 min read ◦ Carbon accounting provides a science-based measurement of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, achieving greater...
Responsible to whom and for what?
Contestations of CSR across time, space, and experience … and a Call for Papers By Jeremy Moon ◦ 3 min read ◦ It is well known...
Megacorporations
By Glen Whelan ◦ 2 min read ◦ Whatever you did today, there is a fair chance that you used a product or service that...
Remote research: A story about “being there”
By Elizabeth Cooper ◦ 2 min read ◦ It has now been more than a year since researchers have been forced to move most of...
Impact of COVID-19 on mortality inequalities: The case of France
By Clément Brébion ◦ 3 min read ◦ Despite an unprecedented worldwide decline in mortality over the last century, a substantial income gradient in life...
March for Gender #4: Leaving no one behind
By Maria Figueroa ◦ 3 min read ◦ To mark International Women’s Day 2021, the University of Bath’s Business and Society blog and Copenhagen Business School’s Business of...
SFDR, NFRD and the EU Taxonomy – What is their relationship?
By Andreas Rasche ◦ 5 min read ◦ The new Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) is on the minds of many investors these days. While a lot...
March for Gender #3: We need a manifesto for Maya, not just a celebration of John
By Pierre McDonagh and Andrea Prothero ◦ 5 min read ◦ To mark International Women’s Day 2021, the University of Bath’s Business and Society blog and...
Arguing for Climate Adaptation
By Stella Whittaker ◦ 3 min read ◦ This month saw the publication of the Climate Policy Initiative’s (CPI) long awaited analysis of climate...
March for Gender #2: The Gendered Impact of Covid-19
By Maha Rafi Atal ◦ 5 min read ◦ Most years, International Women’s Day is greeted by articles highlighting both progress made towards gender...
Distraction and manipulation: the two horsemen of the digital economy
By Jan Michael Bauer ◦ 2 min read ◦ Even before COVID, people have spent more and more time online. Particularly mobile devices have become...
March for Gender #1: How a feminist collective took on a media giant to challenge everyday sexism
By Sarah Glozer & Lauren McCarthy ◦ 4 min read ◦ To mark International Women’s Day 2021, the University of Bath’s Business and Society blog and...
Portfolios at risk of Deforestation
How can financial investors better understand underlying risks and act accordingly By Amanda Wildhaber, Dominik Wingeier, Jessica Brügger, Nico Meier, and Dr. Kristjan Jespersen...
Under the radar: How companies can redefine what we consider socially responsible
By Verena Girschik ◦ 2 min read ◦ Notwithstanding promises of win-wins and synergies, we have good reasons to question whether companies address social problems in...
Who really cares about the SDGs when it comes to nobody’s responsibility?
By Suhyon Oh ◦ 2 min read ◦ The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the common goals of global development as we all agreed. Since its...
How organizations avoid to hire highly-skilled migrants
By Annette Risberg and Laurence Romani ◦ 2 min read ◦ Labor integration of migrants is a topic frequently on the public and political agendas, as...
Is Pollution the Only Road to Business Prosperity?
Sustainable Visioning as a driver of Corporate Transformation By Heather Louise Madsen ◦ 4 min read ◦ CO2 reduction is a hot topic for almost every...
A Southern-centered perspective on climate change in global value chains?
By Peter Lund-Thomsen ◦ 2 min read ◦ The garment and textile industries account for around 10% of global CO2 emissions, and their fast fashion approach...
Do we need to sacrifice to mitigate climate change?
By Laura Krumm ◦ 3 min read ◦ It is not news anymore that a change of consumer behavior is needed in order to...
AI: A new culprit in missing the sustainability mark?
Lara Anne Hale Artificial intelligence (AI) is championed as being the future driver of business: everything from human resources to surgery is supposed to...
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...
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.
Conquer the Lock-In: How Food Companies can act on their Political Responsibility towards Children
The overconsumption of sugar, especially among children, and its long-term health risks re-gained public awareness with the introduction of the British soda tax in 2018. What can we learn for 2019?
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...
Corporate contributions to United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals
The days of corporate greening are over. Many companies kicked off their sustainability strategies decades ago by picking the low-hanging fruit. But there is nothing left within arm’s reach to pick. Now we expect companies big and small to demonstrate their contribution to broader societal and environmental sustainability challenges beyond firm boundaries.
The Academic Smarts in the Smart City
By Lara Anne Hale. Smart Cities 101 Last week I had the pleasure of being one of eight students to join the University of...
Fake news and what it means for discussions about CSR-related issues
By Daniel Lundgaard. There is a saying on online forums that “About 78% of all statistics shared online are made up to prove a...
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...
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.
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...