On June 16 – 17, 2016 Copenhagen Business School hosted the International Conference on Business, Policy and Sustainability. The conference has explored the theme of national and global policy, business and academic approaches to sustainability. The conference is co-organized by the CBS Sustainability Platform and the Velux Chair in Corporate Sustainability at CBS. It is also sponsored […]
Business of Society
UN Global Compact Expels More Participants than New Participants Join
In October 2015, the UN Global Compact, the UN’s flagship initiative for corporate responsibility and sustainability, has expelled 130 firms for failure to report on implementation progress. During this month only 116 new businesses joined the initiative. This is third month in 2015 that the initiative had to expel more participants than new participants joined (after January and September).
Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility
The relationship between corporate governance (CG) and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a vexed, yet a vital, one for each of these regulatory logics. Accordingly, it is a key issue for the business of society.
The Faroe Islands = UNspoiled, UNdiscovered, UNbelievable. The Faroese Oil Industry = UNdisputed, UNquestioned, UNchallenged
The Faroe Islands are economically dependent on a clean environment for their fishing industry but up to now the community has not challenged the potential downsides of the Faroese oil industry. The consequences of the oil industry could have negative effects on the nature and thereby the future of the community in the Faroes. Why […]