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Resilience in Uncertain Times
Martina Linnenluecke
As many of you know, I research resilience, that is, the capacity of individuals, organisations and communities to recover from substantial adversity. In this essay, I offer some of my own experiences and observations, and hope that they can contribute to tackling major global challenges such as the Covid-19 health emergency and climate change. I have experienced almost 6 months of what feels like an apocalyptic future. […]
Understanding COVID-19: A Behavioral Corporate Social Responsibility Perspective
Herman Aguinis
In this short essay, I would like to explain why a behavioral perspective on corporate social responsibility (CSR) is useful in helping us understand and possibly also offer solutions for some of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and, more generally, other natural environmental disasters and stressors. Our research over the past 15+ years has focused on behavioral CSR, which involves investigating CSR at the […]
Companies vs Coronavirus: A Call for Rapid Responsible Innovation
Leopoldo Gutierrez Ana Castillo Ivan Montiel
This note is both a call for immediate action and hopefully also inspiration for companies to act against the COVID-19/Coronavirus outbreak in the form of rapid responsible innovation — innovation developed in a short period of time in a state of emergency with the hope of protecting people and saving lives. The current global pandemic has caught the entire world off guard and driven companies to step up in service of society. Companies now have the potential to show their commitment not only to shareholders but also to all their stakeholders. The unprecedented COVID-19 outbreak […]
Climate change in the time of corona: That’s so 2019…
Jonathan Pinkse
Social media extravaganza To stay productive these days I try not to spend too much time on social media…I’m failing miserably of course. On Twitter many people are worrying about the Coronavirus (COVID-19), blaming others for not doing enough to flatten the curve, or sharing videos of epic Zoom blunders. LinkedIn is used to praise our lackluster attempts to do online meetings and showcase corporate initiatives that ease some of the pain. On Facebook we fuel our friends with nostalgia, sharing memories […]
Learning to Carry the Cat by the Tail
Jennifer Oetzel Chang Hoon Oh
What we know about business response to disasters and how that relates to the COVID-19 crisis Is it possible for businesses to manage such a seemingly “unmanageable” problem as COVID-19? We have been researching multinational enterprises’ responses to natural disasters and political risks for two decades now and the answer is a qualified yes. A key finding of our […]
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