ur crisis is a narrative crisis and it will not be solved by new technologies, but by new stories and new metaphors that enable us to see the world from a radically different perspective.
In COVID-19, we are facing the ultimate prisoner’s dilemma where our survival depends upon our collective actions and, as a result, the morality of individual actions takes on new meaning. This challenge shares many commonalities with the challenge of the Anthropocene.
Will a global pandemic and recession push businesses to hit the reset button in their business/stakeholder relationships?
ur case study focused on the food industry and how it adapts its products to the changing definition of the value ‘health’. What is considered a "healthy" food product changes over time due to new scientific insights, new consumption habits, and changes in food production and sales.
Our paper opens up the “black box” of the government affairs practices conducted by companies in Brussels and draws a comparison between the practices there and those in Washington D.C. We find that, although companies in both sites use similar resources, the daily management practices vary a lot.
Why do firms adopt Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practices? How does CSR spread across the globe?
If companies make economic and social reasons for their sustainable investments known, they run the risk of their legitimacy being called into question. Our study shows that when individuals assume that a company’s sustainable investments are strategically motivated and driven by economic interests, they will assess companies’ credibility and legitimacy negatively.
The market rewards firms that engage in political activity, with significantly better performance on the day of their IPO
We conceptualise how scandals act as turning points, enabling forms of contestation that would not be otherwise possible.
