Research shows that South African companies are neglecting the more challenging aspects of sustainability reporting.
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There are gains to be made from going green.
Contributing to the public good should be a top priority for public and land grant universities. Here, some ideas on how to match what institutions value with academics’ own drive for service.
Major food retailers say they are aiming for zero food waste - but are transferring the costs onto not-for-profit groups and suppliers.
Companies can help both society and the bottom line by spending the price of a 30-second Super Bowl spot on something that benefits society.
The business presence at COP21 may be on the sidelines but support for climate change is strong.
Businesses are crucial to action on climate change but corporate social responsibility doesn’t take us far enough or fast enough. Here’s why.
With costs set to run into the billions, the Samarco mine disaster will hang over BHP for some time to come.
Do companies really mean it when they talk about being socially responsible? Judging by their mission statements and homepages, it seems increasingly that resources firms do, but many retailers don’t.
How to make companies take seriously their responsibilities to the rest of us.
It used to be outside actors like NGOs and governments that forced companies to be environmentally friendly. But some are building their brand on their CSR.
For business ethics to be effective they must be pushed onto corporations against their will. Business ethics is democratic, not corporate.
Volkswagen’s command and control approach has not helped its global response to the emissions scandal, with Australian customers left waiting for more than two weeks.
To start, businesses can stop creating problems that governments have to fix.
For Bayern Munich, helping refugees isn’t simply a moral obligation it’s good CSR.
There is a schism between the symbolic and substantive sustainability efforts of our Big Four banks.
The next time you’re weighing a company’s job offer, it may be wise to find out the gender of the CEO’s children.
Whether you cheered the election result or were cast into a depression, it doesn’t really matter. The real power lies outside of Westminster, and outside of our control.
The corporate backlash shouldn’t be a surprise. Companies have increasingly played a more active role on social issues.
With Australia planning its own Google tax, we’re likely to see state power and sovereignty come into direct conflict with corporate might.
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Professor of Business and Society, University of Technology Sydney
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Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford and Professor of Management and Sociology, University of Michigan
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Research Fellow, Melbourne School of Government, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Associate Director of Research Operations at ECU Centre for People, Place and Planet (CPPP), Edith Cowan University
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Professor of Business Law and Ethics, Indiana University
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Senior Lecturer of Marketing, Swinburne University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer, Politics, University of Glasgow
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Business and Law, QUT, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor, Organisation, Technology & Sustainability, University of Bristol
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Lecturer in Management Accounting, University of Glasgow
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Professor in Organisation & Sustainability, University of Exeter
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Associate Professor, University of Sydney Business School, University of Sydney
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Associate professor, University of Sydney
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Chair in Accountancy and Professor in Sustainability Accounting and Transparency, University of Aberdeen
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Senior lecturer, University of Technology Sydney