Sustainability claims: In what sense are they performative?
By Lars Thøger Christensen The number of products advertised as “green” or climate neutral has exploded in recent years, according to several newspaper articles....
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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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Jan 19, 2021
Counting Trees in the Hopes of Managing Forests – Technological solutions to palm oil deforestation?
By Isaac Caiger-Smith, Izabela Delabre and Kristjan Jespersen In recent years, companies dealing in global commodities – such as palm oil, soy and timber...
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Jan 15, 2021
Marching toward the end of enlightenment?
How management and organization scholarship can help explain new forms of anti-enlightenment organizing By Dennis Schoeneborn In the scholarly field of management and organization...
Jan 12, 2021
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...
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Making the case for and against and beyond Friedman in 2020
On the anniversary of Friedman’s “The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits” By Steen Vallentin September 13th marked the 50th anniversary...
Private Standard-setting Organizations and the Theory of Change
Theory of Change – Evaluating Supply Chain Outcomes By Kamilla Hvid Andersen, Eileen Ryll, Dr. Caleb Gallemore and Dr. Kristjan Jespersen Due to globalization,...
Normative foundations for stakeholder involvement in environmental and societal impact assessments
A complex issue of global relevance By Karin Buhmann This article is based on previously written piece for the Centre for Business and Development Studies....
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...
What does it mean to call someone a stakeholder?
By Matthew Archer The word “stakeholder” is ubiquitous in sustainability discourse. We see it in corporate sustainability reports, policy documents, business plans, and sustainable...
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...