Megacorporations
By Glen Whelan ◦ 2 min read ◦ Whatever you did today, there is a fair chance that you used a product or service that...
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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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Jun 2, 2021
Start me up – helping citizen engagement become the hot new kid on the block
By Isabel Fróes ◦ 4 min read ◦ In recent years, through experience and discussions in various projects and workshops dealing with urban development, this key...
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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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Remote research: A story about “being there”
By Elizabeth Cooper ◦ 2 min read ◦ It has now been more than a year since researchers have been forced to move most of...
Impact of COVID-19 on mortality inequalities: The case of France
By Clément Brébion ◦ 3 min read ◦ Despite an unprecedented worldwide decline in mortality over the last century, a substantial income gradient in life...
March for Gender #4: Leaving no one behind
By Maria Figueroa ◦ 3 min read ◦ To mark International Women’s Day 2021, the University of Bath’s Business and Society blog and Copenhagen Business School’s Business of...
March for Gender #2: The Gendered Impact of Covid-19
By Maha Rafi Atal ◦ 5 min read ◦ Most years, International Women’s Day is greeted by articles highlighting both progress made towards gender...
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...
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...
Under the radar: How companies can redefine what we consider socially responsible
By Verena Girschik ◦ 2 min read ◦ Notwithstanding promises of win-wins and synergies, we have good reasons to question whether companies address social problems in...