Well done! Simone D’Alessandro and his team at REMARC’s Societal transitions for a sustainable economy focus area have been awarded a big grant under the RIA call H2020-LC-CLA-2018-2. The project, “Low-carbon society: an enhanced modelling tool for the transition to sustainability” …
Matteo Corciolani and co-authors have recently published research work on Palm Oil controversies: Legitimacy struggles in palm oil controversies: An institutional perspective Abstract Palm oil is an ingredient largely used in the food, energy and cosmetics industries. However, it is subject …
Second annual meeting of business schools that support human rights teaching and research On November 28, 2018 representatives of 25 business schools from Europe, South Asia, the Middle East, Asia and North America met for the second time in Geneva …
Elisa Giuliani was awarded the 2018 Regional Studies Association MERSA Grant for the following project: Rethinking regional development agendas: Human rights and economic growth into perspective Business-related human rights (BHR) infringements are site-specific violations of universal human rights caused by companies as …
New Research Article The Journal of World Business has published our perspective article on “International Business and Human Rights“, written by Florian Wettstein and Elisa Giuliani from REMARC and co-authored with G. Santangelo and G. Stahl. This article seeks to stimulate …
REMARC was at the Post-Growth 2018 Conference this year! The Post-Growth 2018 Conference was held at the European Parliament on the 18th and 19th of October. The event builds on thematic workshops organized by multiple stakeholders and it encourages building a …
REMARC was at the Academy of Management in Chicago between 10th and 14th of August 2018. Elisa Giuliani was part of the PDW “Business and Human Rights and Access to Justice: Theoretical Premises and Empirical Evidence” coordinated by Kathleen Rehbein and Judith …
Read a new REMARC article in Research Policy: “Regulating global capitalism amid rampant corporate wrongdoing” by Elisa Giuliani. The note is a reply to “Three frames for innovation policy: R&D, systems of innovation and transformative change” by Johan Schot and Ed Steinmueller. Enjoy! …
Federica Nieri presented her co-authored work “Beyond the Magic of ESG Metrics: Measuring Corporate Wrongdoing Using an M-Quantile Regression Approach” at the Business and Human Rights Scholars Conference. The Center for Business and Human Rights hosted the event on September 14-15, 2018 …
24th May 2018, Prof. Bert Scholtens (Groningen University) gives a keynote speech at the final Jean Monnet workshop on Socially Responsible Investments in Pisa. He asks whether socially responsible investing could be regarded as a success. The answer depends upon the perspective …