Council on Business & Society: CoBS Insights: Recent Episodes
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Professor Yingyan Wang of Keio University offers fresh insights from the Japanese concept of Yoi-Shigoto on how firms can leverage their organisational structures to foster a CSR-oriented attitude among their employees.
Related research: Commitment to sustainable development: Exploring the factors affecting employee attitudes towards corporate social responsibility‐oriented management, Wiley. With kind acknowledgements to Prof. Hirokazu Kono, Keio Business School, and Prof. Yingyan Wang, Keio University.
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://councilcommunity.org/2020/05/26/yoi%e2%80%90shigoto-lessons-in-csr/
Michael Bradshaw, Professor of Global Energy at Warwick Business School, and Caroline Kuzemko, Professor of International Political Economy at Warwick University, explore the four scenarios on which positive post-COVID climate action hinges. With kind acknowledgements to Warwick Business School and COREinsights. Related research: "Four scenarios of the energy transition : drivers, consequences, and implications for geopolitics", "It’s déjà vu all over again : COVID-19, the global energy market, and the Russian economy", Eurasian Geography and Economics, "Covid-19 and the politics of sustainable energy transitions", Energy Research & Social Science.
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://councilcommunity.org/2021/02/16/climate-change-will-the-post-pandemic-world-tackle-it/
Christine Zdelar, Product Leader & Change Agent at Ding and Trinity College Dublin Alumna, together with Researcher Michelle MacMahon, Trinity Business School, explore how Millennials have adapted to the new way of work lockdown has imposed.
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://councilcommunity.org/2021/02/18/remote-working-how-millennials-make-sense-of-our-new-reality/
Despite decades of responsible procurement reforms, child labor remains a daily occurrence across global supply chains linked to leading corporations. Ksapa sustainability and corporate responsibility consultant, Margaux Dillon, reports on how technology can play a role in monitoring child labor and providing new solutions.
With kind acknowledgements to Ksapa.org. First published via the Ksapa blog as Technology to Scale Corporate Impact on Child Labor.
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://councilcommunity.org/2021/03/25/4-hotspots-for-technology-to-fight-child-labor/
Professor Adrian Zicari, ESSEC Business School, Executive Director, Council on Business & Society and Dan LeClair PhD, CEO of the Global Business School Network with a long, hard, and inspiring look at the future of business education.
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://councilcommunity.org/2021/04/01/business-education-and-the-inevitable-change/
Profs.Concepción Galdón and Laura McDermott, IE Business School, together with healthcare consultant Bárbara Rey and City University of New York Prof. and social innovator Terry Huang, research the issue of collaboration between generations, with social innovation proving a model from which for-profit companies can learn.
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://councilcommunity.org/2021/03/18/what-socent-can-teach-companies-about-intergenerational-collaboration/
Artificial intelligence, Employee Performance and Wellness: Prof. Yufei Huang, Trinity Business School, together with co-researcher Dr. Joan Cahill, Trinity College Dublin, share their current research into the impact of AI on employees, their wellness, and how firms can reimagine work in a healthy way, bolstered by intelligent technology.
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://councilcommunity.org/2021/03/09/ai-employee-performance-wellness-towards-a-law-of-robotics-in-the-workplace/
Putting a value to the impact people and their organisations have on the world around them is not an easy task, says Professor Adrián Zicari, ESSEC Business School, especially in the context of ethics in finance.
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://councilcommunity.org/2021/01/21/social-accounting-measuring-sustainability/
Professor Qinqin Zheng, School of Management Fudan University, with co-researchers Ajai Gaur, Rutgers Business School, and Koustab Ghosh, Indian Institute of Management, explore why Asian organisations adopt ethics & compliance management within their CSR and, more importantly, if and how they implement it.
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://councilcommunity.org/2021/04/08/ethics-compliance-in-firms-why-it-happens-and-what-makes-it-effective/
Innovation: The omnipresent theme is so instilled in today’s educational institutions that instructors work tirelessly to create new courses on it, spending long hours or even days teaching their students to think outside the box. In fact, over the past couple of decades, the teaching of innovation has radically transformed to become a discipline that is as much rigorous as it is relevant for any organisation seeking to develop or renew growth.
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://councilcommunity.org/2021/03/12/education-imagination-and-innovation/