What does it mean to call someone a stakeholder?
By Matthew Archer The word “stakeholder” is ubiquitous in sustainability discourse. We see it in corporate sustainability reports, policy documents, business plans, and sustainable...
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Sep 30, 2020
Making the case for and against and beyond Friedman in 2020
On the anniversary of Friedman’s “The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits” By Steen Vallentin September 13th marked the 50th anniversary...
Sep 22, 2020
Private Standard-setting Organizations and the Theory of Change
Theory of Change – Evaluating Supply Chain Outcomes By Kamilla Hvid Andersen, Eileen Ryll, Dr. Caleb Gallemore and Dr. Kristjan Jespersen Due to globalization,...
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Sep 4, 2020
Different pathways to sustainability standard adoption
How local norms may be able to help drive the spread of voluntary programs – the case of the RSPO in Japan. By Hattaya...
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Concepts
I Am What I Pledge – The importance of value alignment and crowdfunder behavior
By Kristian Roed Nielsen Together with my colleague Julia Binder we recently published a paper on the role of values in driving crowdfunding backer...
Supplier perspectives on social responsibility in global value chains
By Peter Lund-Thomsen Worldwide there is now a search for new ideas, business models, and innovations that can help us in rebounding from the...
Fresh Air: An Impact Story
By Lara Anne Hale What do fresh air, canaries, and research all have in common? Academics often humbly conduct and publish research, hoping but...
Building A Better Planet: Toward a Sustainable Post-COVID-19 Society
By Daniel C. Esty Covid-19 has dominated policy thinking across the world for several months – highlighting our vulnerability to unexpected threats, the fundamental...
The Coronavirus Pandemic – and the Consequentiality of Metaphors
By Dennis Schoeneborn Language is a reef of dead metaphors (Guy Deutscher) We are in the midst of an unfolding crisis that humanity is...
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...
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...