When Good CSR Intentions With Communities Go Bad
By Rajiv Maher. Can companies get CSR efforts “right” by engaging in dialogue with communities, thus improve relations and their impacts? Reality shows that companies tend...
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Apr 20, 2021
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...
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Jan 21, 2021
Innovating Under Pressure – Grassroots’ social and distributed manufacturing during the pandemic
By Isabel Fróes As Bowie almost made a prediction when he sang in his lyrics from 1981: ‘It’s the terror of knowing what this world...
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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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Seeing Like a Standard: Sustainable Palm Oil and the Coasian Challenge
By Kristjan Jespersen & Caleb Gallemore. Approximate reading time: 3-4 minutes. Go to any supermarket and you’ll see labels, so many labels. Some of them seem...
CBS new Knowledge Partner of the OECD
By Karin Buhmann. In early 2017 CBS accepted an invitation from the Organisation of Economic Collaboration and Development (OECD) to become an OECD Knowledge...
Who’s responsibility is it, anyway?
By Erin Leitheiser. Workers and companies from across the globe each play a part in creating our clothes. Yet, it’s unclear who is responsible...
CBS UN Global Compact PRME report on progress: Not only what, but also who
By Lavinia-Cristina Iosif-Lazar. 68 pages, 6 principles, one year of data collection and CBS’ 4th report to the UN Global Compact PRME initiative: these...
Crowdfunding for Sustainability: Creating a platform for sustainable ideas
By Kristian Roed Nielsen. Crowdfunding as phenomenon is strange as it fundamentally boils down to strangers supporting strangers for causes, products or services that...
UN Global Compact Silently Expels More than 2,300 Non-Business Participants
By Andreas Rasche. The UN Global Compact continues to “clean up” its participant base. The initiative reported to have 5,332 non-business participants (e.g., global...
The Ecosystem of Shared Value – Unoriginal, But Still Likely to Make an Impact
by Andreas Rasche. The October 2016 issue of the Harvard Business Review contains an article by Mark Kramer and Marc Pfitzer called “The Ecosystem...