Canned Dreams: exploring the global food supply chain
November 27, 2012
This week we conclude the film series with a tour of the international food supply chain where a can of ravioli takes an eight-country, 30,000km tour through each phases of food production: The story begins with a single mother toiling in one of the biggest open pit mines in Brazil and ends on the shelf of a grocery store in Finland. …
Shadows of Liberty: The Media, Business and Political Power
November 20, 2012
Jean-Philippe Tremblay’s documentary Shadows of Liberty was the third film in our annual series Doing the Business. The film was introduced as follows by Professor Jeremy Moon, Director of the International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility at Nottingham University Business school. ——————– Tonight’s film, Shadows of liberty, is about news, business and power. The title comes from a quote …
The Flaw: what happens when the rich get richer?
November 13, 2012
Tonight Philip Augar will be introducing David Sington’s documentary The Flaw, the second film in our annual series at the Broadway Cinema, Nottingham. This is the latest film to explore the credit bubble which caused the financial crisis. David Sington moves away from the ‘greedy banker’ and ‘incompetent regulator’ arguments – to consider why the …
Is it Ethics or Imagination we need most?
October 30, 2012
On Tuesday 6th November the tenth series of Doing the Business will begin with a screening of The Revenge of the Electric Car. The series is designed to encourage discussion and debate on the topic of social, environmental and ethical issues in business. Please join the debate live on Tuesday at Broadway, Nottingham or add your comments below. …
Capitalism in Crisis? Can Business be a force for good?
October 24, 2012
David Logan began the academic year here at Nottingham with a talk entitled – Capitalism in Crisis? Can Business be a force for good? David, whose career in CSR and business spans 30 years, had been invited to inspire our new cohort of students. His wide ranging talk gave our new arrivals a sense of the history; …
Expanding the Sphere of Political CSR
October 22, 2012
The CSR policies and practices of MNCs often have a distinctly political feel. Amongst other things, they commonly contribute to (or undermine) human rights, and to the development of institutions that subsequently shape their activities. Whilst such political activities have been subject to considerable analysis from CSR scholars, in my just published Business Ethics Quarterly …
Social Media & Social Responsibility: Crowdsourcing, Conversations & Competition
October 2, 2012
I recently read a blog post that argued that hanging around on Twitter can be classed as work (thanks @thesiswhisperer)! As a PhD researcher in the midst of observing how businesses have shifted from communicating CSR information to stakeholders, to constructing CSR knowledge with them, I spend a lot of time immersed in online activity. …
Sponsorship, Sports and Ethics
September 19, 2012
The 2012 Olympics and Paralympics have raised issues of ethics and sponsorship of sports. Some of us have quite set critical views, e.g.: ‘There is already far too much sport, and sponsorship only encourages media saturation of these banal activities at the expense of artistic, intellectual or economic flourishing’. For others ‘Sponsorship of sports …
‘Getting away from it all’: social responsibility in tourism
September 11, 2012
Amongst a series of thoughtful comments on my last blog (thank you!), it was noted that in spite of some negative impacts on the environment, tourism was a powerful force in addressing social issues such as poverty and unemployment. In this blog, I put forward the main social benefits of tourism and reflect upon the …
Sustainability in Australia – The View from Down Under
September 5, 2012
21 years of unfettered economic growth. The biggest mining boom on record. Levels of inflation and employment the envy of almost every other developed country. Yes, by any measure, life in the Antipodes is good. Combine this with sunshine, beaches, space aplenty and home-grown food enough for almost twice the existing population, then it is …
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