This paper provides a conceptual framework for an action-oriented entrepreneurial social agenda for commodity businesses. Providing basic and high-value commodities, the extractive industry fulfills a fundamental economic need. Operating in a wide variety of geographical and climatic conditions...

In many countries, employment growth in civil society outpaces that of the private sector, but a striking information gap remains: the most innovative initiatives are frequently not well known to philanthropically minded families. Taking this observation as a starting point, the paper outlines...

This course takes a strategic perspective on social change. It asks how emerging leaders - social entrepreneurs and strategic philanthropists - can stimulate systemic change through local interventions and collaboration. The course was developed by Maximilian Martin and co-taught by Maximilian...

In the 1980s, the cumulative impact of a host of technical-economic and macro-social trends began to fundamentally alter value creation dynamics at the workplace and organizational reality. Rapid social change has relevant implications at all levels of social reality. Via a comprehensive review,...