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...
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Oct 19, 2021
How the EU Taxonomy Impacts Businesses Beyond Europe
By Andreas Rasche ◦ 4 min read ◦ In 2020, the EU launched its classification system for environmentally sustainable economic activities, the so-called “EU Taxonomy Regulation”...
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Oct 14, 2021
White People and the Animals they Love
Book Review of Saving Endangered Species: Lessons in Wildlife Conservation from Indianapolis Prize Winners By Lisa Ann Richey ◦ 6 min read ◦ This book review has...
Oct 7, 2021
Are we asking the wrong questions in corporate social responsibility (CSR) research?
By Rikke Rønholt Albertsen ◦ 3 min read ◦ The sustainability contributions of business are under increased scrutiny in society. Observations of greenwashing, blue-washing, corporate hypocrisy, and...
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Oct 4, 2021
Why transparency may not lead straight to CSR paradise
By Dennis Schoeneborn ◦ 2 min read ◦ Business firms worldwide are increasingly engaging in practices of corporate social responsibility (CSR), a trend strongly driven also...
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How do the arts impact our societies in times of digitalisation?
By Kirsti Reitan Andersen and members of the Artsformation consortium Two decades into the new millennium it is almost impossible to imagine a future in which...
Insecure work: rethinking precarity through Kenya’s tea plantations
By Hannah Elliott Over the last decade, the term ‘precarity’ has become ubiquitous in studies of work and labor, as jobs are increasingly characterized...
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...
How the pandemic can reset cities and transform aspects of urban mobility
By Isabel Froes Cities are hard and complex systems. With their defined policies, grids and routes, they offer limited space for experimentation, with a...
A Green and Fair COVID-19 Recovery Plan
By Stefano Ponte This article is based on his previously written piece for the Centre for Business and Development Studies. The COVID-19 crisis has made...
Normalizing Sustainability
By John Robinson, University of Toronto We often hear the argument that, given the urgency of climate change and sustainability concerns, significant changes to...
We can’t better the world at once. So let’s do it together!
By Julia Köhler Sustainability – a concept that accompanies us every day: whether it is sustainable consumption, sustainable nutrition, sustainable traveling or sustainable management....