Where is the Space for Ethics in Rule Governed Organizations?
By Anna Kirkebæk Gosovic. Imagine that you work in an organization where your choices, your knowledge and your thoroughness in your work could potentially...
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Nov 17, 2021
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...
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Nov 12, 2021
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...
Oct 19, 2021
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”...
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Adventures in Materiality. Notes from the first CBS Sustainability Seminar
By Steen Vallentin. On October 31, 2017 the new CSB Sustainability seminar series was launched With a room full of practitioners and academics, the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
License to Critique: Inoculating Standards against Closure
By Lars Thøger Christensen. Sustainability and responsibility standards entail a danger of organizational actors stopping to reflect about what these values could or should entail...
Really Fake
By Glen Whelan. With generative technologies on their way to maturity, ‘Fake News’ may soon reach a whole new level of ‘realness’ No less...