As capitalism's image crumbles, many of the world's biggest companies are trying to give it new life by showing it can mean more than just making money.
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Bad customer service is actually good for companies' bottom lines.
In an interview, law professor Carlos Ball explains how gay rights activists and corporations went from adversaries to partners. But would the alliance have happened if it had hurt the bottom line?
East Germans feel alienated and powerless. They see themselves as second-class citizens, while outsiders live high on what is rightfully theirs.
In 1989, Francis Fukuyama pronounced that history had ended. How wrong he was.
Personal data is valued primarily because data can be turned into a private asset. That has significant implications for political and societal choices.
Todd Phillips' film reflects a society that is distrustful of traditional power structures and voicing that disillusionment at the ballot box.
Why a spontaneous popular movement emerged in Hong Kong.
Some Cuban entrepreneurs are so openly anti-communist that they sound like, well, capitalists.
New research suggests that non-profits tempted by the social enterprise model do not necessarily lose sight of their social mission in favour of profits. In fact, the opposite is true.
Scholars link the emergence of the term boredom to European industrial modernity, and the standardization of time, repetitive labour and development of leisure time associated with it.
High levels of inequality damage our health, harm social cohesion and act as a brake on economic performance.
Democratic presidential candidates share many ideas and opinions. What they don't share, writes one historian, is the label 'liberal.'
A new kind of capitalism is emerging in which companies value communities, the environment and workers just as much as profits. Even the Business Roundtable agrees.
Barbuda's recovery is deliberately slow as neighbouring Antigua wants to develop the island's tourism.
Liberal democracy is in trouble, and the seeds of its demise can be found in the property rights so cherished by so-called liberals generations ago.
The current system drives social injustice and environmental destruction, a new approach to address both is called for.
From Ford to Facebook, companies have long used benefits to mold employee behavior – even incentivizing the 'right' kind of lifestyle.
Humankind already has the knowledge to make sustainable and socially just ways of living on this planet possible. But new types of design and economics are needed for anything to change.
How can the climate strikers' demands of system change be met?
Top contributors
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Professor of Organisation Studies, University of Bristol
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Associate professor, University of Sydney
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Professor of Organisational Studies, University of Sydney
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Director, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, University of Melbourne
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Professor of International Politics, University of Western Australia
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Professor of Economics, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Research Professor, Hertfordshire Business School, University of Hertfordshire
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Professor of Comparative Political Science and Democracy Research at the Humboldt University Berlin; Associate of the Sydney Democracy Network, University of Sydney; Director of Research Unit Democracy: Structures, Performance, Challenges, WZB Berlin Social Science Center.
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Research Fellow, University of Manchester
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Professor of Business and Sustainable Development, University of Edinburgh
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Professor of Innovation & Knowledge Exchange, University of Oxford
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Professor of Practice, Nonprofit Organizations; Social & Environmental Enterprises, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Tutor, University of Wollongong
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PhD Candidate, University of Sydney
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Honorary Fellow, Deakin University
