Advanced analytics and artificial intelligence are powerful technologies that, along with their benefits, create new threats to privacy, equality, fairness and transparency. Existing law does not yet protect sufficiently against these threats. This has led some organizations to pursue what they...

We investigate the role firms play in dealing with data protection. We draw parallels between the ethical challenges regarding data capabilities and other social issues that over time have instigated the evolution of corporate responsibilities. Our contention is that we can learn from the...

Big data is perhaps one of the most influential phenomena of the 21st century that affects every inch of the economic system, yet management scholars are only beginning to investigate its relevance for theory and practice. This paper contributes to this discussion by presenting data as an...

Mediation as a ‘preemptive discipline’ is introduced with relevant theories and research, including from psychology and business studies.The paper is contemporary descriptive using a conflict that is very present in modern discussion: The sustainability of nature in contrasted with business...

Literature review about corporate social responsibility (CSR) suggests that there are organisational benefits to be gained from unintentional discretionary expenditure in laudable behaviour. With this in mind, the methodology integrates insights from the ‘stakeholder theory’ and the...

This paper examines whether -- in the absence of mandated disclosure requirements -- shareholder activism can elicit greater disclosure of firms' exposure to climate change risks. We find that environmental shareholder activism increases the voluntary disclosure of climate change risks,...

CEO activism refers to corporate leaders speaking out on social and environmental policy issues not directly related to their company's core business. Distinct from nonmarket strategy and traditional corporate social responsibility, the recent wave of CEO activism focuses on social issues...

This paper describes how behavioral elements are relevant to financial supervision,regulation, and central banking. It focuses on (1) behavioral effects of norms (social, legal,and market); (2) behavior of others (internalization, identification, and compliance); and(3) psychological biases. It...

The peer-to-peer economy has unraveled thousands of years of codal and jurisprudential safeguards that were put in place to protect travelers and other patrons of public accommodations. Several large companies have generated billions of dollars in revenue from property rental without owning any...

This conceptual paper sheds light on some of the major intergovernmental benchmarks, guidelines and principles for corporate social responsibility (CSR), corporate governance and sustainability reporting. It reports on several governments' regulatory roles as their societal governance is...