Idea posted: February 2024

Institutions: Kings College   

Conducted in waves every five years since 1981, the World Values Survey (WVS) is a global research study exploring values and attitudes in 120 countries (covering nearly 95% of the…

Idea posted: December 2023

Institutions: IESE Business School    Fowler School of Business    Universität Mannheim Graduate School of Business   

A significantly increasing number of companies—from 3% in 2010 to more than 30% in 2021—are incorporating environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics, in their executive compensation plans. The number of…

Idea posted: November 2023

Institutions: USC Gould School of Law; University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School   

Should the purpose of corporations focus on maximizing shareholder value or on attending to the interests of all internal and external stakeholders and society in general? According to corporate purpose…

Idea posted: October 2023

Institutions: University of Bath School of Management;Kellogg School of Management    Northwestern University   

Social movements in society lead to transformations in the companies and organizations within that society. The environmental movement led to environmentally friendly practices and processes, for example. Movements for the…

Idea posted: September 2023

Institutions: University of Cambridge Faculty of Law   

Should corporations be focused exclusively on making a profit for shareholders, or given their wide influence and impact on our daily lives, should they have a greater responsibility towards all…

Idea posted: May 2023

Institutions: London School of Economics   

In November 2020, the advocacy group Women in Banking and Finance launched a four-year research program, entitled Accelerating Change Together, to address gender and diversity issues in the financial and…

Idea posted: December 2022

Institutions: LUT School of Business and Management    Ruhr-University of Bochum    University of Mannheim    SDA Bocconi School of Management    University of Houston Bauer College of Business   

Companies that raise prices might expect some unhappiness from customers, especially if the price increase is seen as deliberate profit-taking. The reaction to Marks & Spencer doubling the price of…

Idea posted: October 2022

Institutions: Université de Lille    University of St. Gallen   

When a company has committed a transgression against one or more of its stakeholders, and wishes to rebuild the stakeholders’ trust and confidence, it engages in ‘moral repair’. For example,…

Idea posted: October 2022

Institutions: The Samuel Dubois Cook Center on Social Equity    Duke University Fuqua School of Business    Duke University   

In 2008, a study led by Prof. Ashleigh Shelby Rosette of Duke showed that for Americans, Whiteness was one of the prototypical attributes of leaders. As a result, Whites, seen…