The Academic Smarts in the Smart City
By Lara Anne Hale. Smart Cities 101 Last week I had the pleasure of being one of eight students to join the University of...
Most Recent. In Standards.
May 24, 2022
Sustainability enabler or complexity blinder?
By Milena Karen Bär & Dr. Kristjan Jespersen ◦ 5 min read ◦ The first step of the EU Action Plan of Sustainable Finance New...
About / Accountability / Concepts / CSR / Featured / Governance / Investment / Issues / Models / News / Regulation / Reporting / Standards / Sustainability
May 18, 2022
How do we think about sustainable investing? Suggestions from an exploratory study
By Margherita Massazza & Dr. Kristjan Jespersen ◦ 4 min read ◦ From the outset, this blog post takes the perspective that behavioral finance is...
About / Accountability / Behaviour / Concepts / CSR / Economic / Featured / Investment / Issues / News / Reporting / Research / Standards / Sustainability
Apr 20, 2022
EU proposal on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence for human rights and the environment
Advancing responsible business conduct, but failing to consider key functional challenges for remedy By Karin Buhmann ◦ 9 min read ◦ Why is the proposal...
About / Accountability / Environment / Featured / Governance / News / Policy / Regulation / Reporting / Stakeholders / Standards / Sustainability
Standards
Sustainability’s Infrastructure
The project SUSTEIN is looking at localized translations of transnational sustainability standards in Kenya, the United Arab Emirates and corporate headquarters in Europe.
A framework for assessing the potential of behaviour change for global decarbonisation
By Kristian Steensen Nielsen Addressing climate change requires an urgent implementation of far-reaching solutions. Policy-makers and natural scientists have mainly offered supply-side solutions to...
A Taxonomy of Sustainable Business Model Patterns
By Florian Lüdeke-Freund & Sarah Carroux. In recent years, so-called “sustainable business models” are increasingly gaining in importance in both practice and research.[1] There...
Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives and Legitimacy
By Mikkel Kruuse. Which groups of actors typically drive the standard development within Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives (MSIs) and why? Power imbalances between actors within MSIs...
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...
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...