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    Wickert, Christopher

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    Nachhaltigkeit und Unternehmensverantwortung im Krisenmodus – Bremst oder beflügelt COVID-19?

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    Die COVID-19 Pandemie bestimmt nahezu sämtliche öffentlichen Diskussionen, und auch unternehmensintern dominiert kein anderes Thema in derartiger Weise. Doch die Klimakrise verschwindet nicht dadurch, dass man ihr weniger Aufmerksamkeit schenkt. Menschenrechte in globalen Lieferketten werden nicht besser, wenn Konsumenten bei uns gerade andere Sorgen haben. Unternehmen, die langfristig zukunftsfähig aufgestellt sein wollen, müssen bereits jetzt strategische Entscheidungen treffen, an welchen Zielgrößen sich ihre Nachhaltigkeitsagenda orientieren soll. Christopher Wickert, Professor für Ethik und Nachhaltigkeit an der Freien Universität Amsterdam und Direktor des dortigen Zentrums für Business & Society, nennt drei entscheidende Faktoren, um unternehmerische Nachhaltigkeit im Krisenmodus nicht auszubremsen, sondern zu beflügeln

    Corporate social responsibility (Elements in Business Strategy)

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    This Element offers a thought-provoking and critical examination of corporate social responsibility (CSR). CSR has entered the boardroom and become a mainstream management concept for businesses to address their ethical, social and environmental responsibilities towards society. CSR does not come without contestation, and firms engage in CSR for different reasons and exhibit different patterns of CSR activities. These activities range from sincere action with substantial social or environmental improvements to symbolic impression management and the creation of a CSR-façade that is little more than empty words. This Element illuminates and scrutinizes contemporary approaches to CSR and offers a fresh perspective for scholars, managers and decision-makers interested in the societal role of business firms beyond maximizing profitability. Christopher Wickert and David Risi take a step back from how CSR is currently understood and practiced, and stimulate readers to reflect on how to move CSR forward towards a more inclusive concept

    Interview with Nicholas Christopher, author of Somewhere in the Night: Film Noir and the American City

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    Interview with Nicholas Christopher, author of Somewhere in the Night: Film Noir and the American Cit

    How Organizing Matters for Societal Grand Challenges

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    Societal grand challenges have moved from a marginal concern to a mainstream issue within organization and management theory. How diverse forms of organizing help tackle – or reinforce – grand challenges has become centrally important. In this introductory paper, we take stock of the contributions to the volume on Organizing for Societal Grand Challenges and identify three characteristics of grand challenges that require further scholarly attention: their interconnectedness, fluidity, and paradoxical nature. We also emphasize the need to expand our methodological repertoire and reflect upon our practices as a scholarly community

    How Organizing Matters for Societal Grand Challenges

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    Societal grand challenges have moved from a marginal concern to a mainstream issue within organization and management theory. How diverse forms of organizing help tackle – or reinforce – grand challenges has become centrally important. In this introductory paper, we take stock of the contributions to the volume on Organizing for Societal Grand Challenges and identify three characteristics of grand challenges that require further scholarly attention: their interconnectedness, fluidity, and paradoxical nature. We also emphasize the need to expand our methodological repertoire and reflect upon our practices as a scholarly community.</p

    Management Research that Makes a Difference:Broadening the Meaning of Impact

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    The world is undergoing dramatic transformations. Many of the grand societal challenges we currently face underscore the need for scholarly research – including management studies – that can help us best sort out and solve them. Yet, management scholars struggle to produce concrete solutions or to communicate how their research can help to tackle these grand societal challenges. With this editorial, we want to help scholars seeking to ‘make a difference’ by broadening our understanding of what constitutes impactful research. We examine five forms of impact – scholarly, practical, societal, policy, and educational – outlining how scholars can systematically extend or enlarge their research agenda or projects to amplify their impact on the challenges societies face. We suggest that each of these forms of impact has intrinsic value in advancing the scientific enterprise and, together, can help to address key societal problems that reach beyond the immediate and traditional context of business management. With concrete suggestions for getting started on these forms of impact, and possible outputs for each, we hope to stimulate management and organization scholars to think more broadly about the opportunities for making an impact with their research and to begin doing so more often

    Matt Christopher Papers - Accession 1309

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    The collection includes letters written by the children’s book author, Matt Christopher, to his son, Marty Christopher. Many of the letters also contain newspaper articles of interest to Matt Christopher, which deal with local sports teams, his writing career, his participation in an exhibition baseball game against the New York Giants in 1938, and other of general interest. Most of the letters are personal in nature, however, a majority of the letters delve into Matt Christopher’s writing career, personal interests, the author’s health, as well as his family life.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/manuscriptcollection_findingaids/2649/thumbnail.jp

    Matt Christopher Papers - Accession 1221

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    Matt Christopher (1917-1997) was a prolific author of children’s books having written over 100 books as well as over 300 short stories, articles, poems, and screenplays. Most of his writings dealt with sports themes, but he also wrote fantasy and mystery themed stories as well. The Matt Christopher Papers consist of both published and unpublished manuscripts, articles, and short stories. Also included are personal and business correspondence, biographical information, scrapbooks, photographs, and memorabilia.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/manuscriptcollection_findingaids/1976/thumbnail.jp

    Dr. Christopher von Rueden – Faculty Author Interview

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    Dr. Christopher von Rueden, an anthropologist and Assistant Professor in the Jepson School of Leadership Studies, discusses a recent article entitled, “Men’s status and reproductive success in 33 non-industrial societies: Effects of subsistence, marriage system, and reproductive strategy,” which he co-authored with Dr. Adrian Jaeggi, an anthropologist at Emory University. Their findings were recently published in the journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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