Investigating Emerging Responsible Corporate Tax Practice
By Sara Jespersen. In the absence of an over-arching world tax authority, much agency and power remains in the hands of the corporations operating...
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Jun 18, 2021
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...
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May 31, 2021
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...
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May 24, 2021
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...
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CBS Hosts 6th Biennial International Symposium on Cross-Sector Social Interactions in June 2018
How can business, government, and civil society interact to better address societal challenges such as climate change, immigration, social exclusion, and poverty? The 6th...
About Meta-MSIs and Private Governance
By Luisa Murphy. What are Meta-Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives (MSIs)? What is their role and contribution to private governance? How do Meta-MSIs enable the translation of...
A Story of Poison, Pork and Consumer Protection
By Jan Bauer. Renewal of controversial weed killer supported by Germany despite internal dissent Corporate support seems the only consistency in many decisions What...
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...
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...
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...