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...
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Mar 11, 2021
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...
Mar 9, 2021
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...
Feb 16, 2021
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...
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The rise of social media bots – how do they work, and how can you spot them?
By Daniel Lundgaard Bots and their impact on online conversations is rapidly becoming an important problem on social media. If we look at the...
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...
Small, yet important – and still responsible. Reflections on SMEs and social responsibility in times of Covid-19
By Søren Jeppesen One thing seems to be clear by now – that we are all challenged by the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic....
On the Ground: What CSR and sustainability standards fail to address
By Hannah Elliott In the fall of 2019, there was a flurry of news stories in the British media about political events in western...
The problem with CSR: why companies need to listen to their activist employees
By Luda Svystunova and Verena Girschik The current pandemic has exposed blatant social injustices and inequalities around the world, prompting businesses to face their...
Lobbying and the virus – three trends to take note of
By Dieter Zinnbauer Writing about anything in relation to Covid-19 is rather hopeless. Any attempt to describe current developments has a half-time of 30...
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...