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Science and Ideology: call for contributions to a new Special Issue
The world is in profound trouble as mounting military conflicts and accelerating ecological crises set us up for a century of uncertainty. To find orientation in tumultuous times, in the past, society...
Utopia, Autonomy and the Anthropocene
Utopia is not an appropriate term to reflect on the idea of autonomy. Utopia is a ‘mystifying’ term. If utopia ‘is something that does not and cannot happen’, then to frame autonomy as a utopia is self-defeating....
Researching utopias: from aspiration as a moral obligation to embodied utopias
Andrea Mathez
Special Issue on Utopias
Food security and sustainable agriculture
Alternative futures
I have been exploring alternative agricultures in Morocco and Switzerland through ethnographic research methods. Despite working explicitly on quiet alternativity – concrete agroecological and everyday...
Néo-farmers: agroecological utopias in a dystopian agricultural landscape?
Abstract Néo-farmers (fr. Néo-paysan-ne-s) are farmers who do not come from an agricultural background, who inherited neither land nor a farm from their family. They dispose of motivations to transform...
Planning beyond growth: rethinking economics to face social-ecological crises
Elena Hofferberth & Matthias Schmelzer
Special Issue on Utopias
Alternative futures
Post-/ or degrowth
Climate and sustainability
The need for democratic macroeconomic coordination beyond growth Today’s interdependent and aggravating social-ecological crises warrant a profound rethinking of our economic system. “Putting people and...
Stewarding Enterprises through Polycrisis
The advent of polycrisis, the intersecting, intertwined set of civilization threatening crises now facing humanity1, signals a significant shift in how ‘leadership’ should be understood and practiced....
Beyond dichotomy: why business schools must integrate climate change into their curricula
After the signing of the Paris Agreement in 2015, the clock is ticking down to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. Numerous companies are pledging Net Zero commitments, but their level of ambition and transparency...
Can we solve societal grand challenges by designing a prosocial economic system?
Can we solve societal grand challenges by designing a prosocial economic system? Business scholars have taught generations of students and executives how to create and capture value. Among the richest...
Towards fossil-free energy futures: Why (and where) we need to look beyond the UN climate regime
At the 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28) of the UN’s climate regime, most countries agreed to triple installed renewables (RE) capacity by 2030. This has been widely considered to signal the “beginning...
How to decide for future generations?
Ewa Lombard & Cecile Biccari
Commentary
Intergenerational justice
Alternative futures
Sustainable Finance
Climate change calls for intergenerational decision-making. The negative consequences of not acting on grand challenges fall disproportionately on future generations, while the benefits largely accrue...
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The world is in profound trouble as mounting military...
Utopia is not an appropriate term to reflect on the...
I have been exploring alternative agricultures in Morocco...
Abstract Néo-farmers (fr. Néo-paysan-ne-s) are farmers...
The need for democratic macroeconomic coordination...
The advent of polycrisis, the intersecting, intertwined...
After the signing of the Paris Agreement in 2015, the...
Can we solve societal grand challenges by designing...
At the 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28) of the...
Climate change calls for intergenerational decision-making....
Entrepreneurship has always been a powerful force for...
Companies, governments, universities, and other organizations...
Call for contributions for our Special Issue on Utopias:...
On November 16 2023, Wouter was invited to a Breakfast...
By Dominic Rohner, Professor of Economics, Faculty...
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On October 12th, Guillaume and Mark were invited to...
The allure and deception of green labels We often hear...
We are awash with ESG slogans – companies often include...
The HEC Research Centre for Grand Challenges held a...
Man is not at the center of the universe. In fact,...
The world is not in a good shape. When Rockström and...
This is an appeal to conceive today’s grand societal...
“Grand challenges are formulations of global...
A response to Christian Seelos, Johanna Mair, and Charlotte...
In our research, we examine discourses that shape the...
