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Council on Business & Society Global Voice Magazine #27, September 2023, Cool down – the heat is on, Solidarity fintech, social currency, cryptocurrency, CSR, ESG, sustainability, management, leadership, business, society, workplace psychology, cartoon, global minimum tax, corporate tax, emotional value, social value, enterprise, AI, climate change, climate action, triple capital accounting, sustainable clothing, ESSEC Business School, FGV-EAESP, School of management Fudan, IE Business School, Keio Business School, Olin Business School, Smith School of Business, Monash Business School, Stellenbosch Business School, Warwick Business School

Global Voice magazine #27: Cool down – the heat is on

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Prof. Adrian Zicari steps back from the heat of the summer months to take a measured and hopeful look through Global Voice magazine #27.

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ChatGPT: A paradigm shift for universities? The launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 produced both massive subscriptions to the tool and a massive outcry from academia. Aymeric Thiollet, ESSEC Business School, Runner-up in the CoBS 2023 Student CSR Article Competition, explores a win-win scenario for AI, its student users, and instructors.

ChatGPT: A paradigm shift for universities?

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Aymeric Thiollet, ESSEC Business School, explores a win-win scenario for AI, universities, its student users, and instructors.

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Workplace Approaches and Women’s Inequality: Embracing change is the future. Professors Anita Bosch, Stellenbosch Business School and Lize Booysen, Antioch University, explore three approaches companies and organizations have implemented to reduce gender inequalities in the workplace, and contend that the gendered nature of work requires deep changes to workplace practices.

Workplace Approaches and Women’s Inequality: Embracing change is the future

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Prof. Anita Bosch, Stellenbosch Business School, and Lize Booysen, Antioch University, analyse how companies combat women’s inequality.

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The Cost of Inflation: A threat to global economic growth. Quynh Nguyen, Runner Up in the CoBS 2023 Student CSR Article Competition at IE Business School, explores the spiral of inflation that has swept the world, highlighting the inability for supply to keep up with demand.

The Cost of Inflation: A threat to global economic growth

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Quynh Nguyen, IE Business School, explores the spiral of inflation that has swept the world and its effect on supply and demand.

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Sustainable Clothing: Why do we buy it – and why not? What do we think when we go shopping? And what makes us tick when we decide to buy that sustainable tee-shirt? Prof. Amandeep Dhir, University of Agdar, Mohd Sadiq, University of Otago, Shalini Talwar, SP Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mototaka Sakashita, Keio Business School, and Puneet Kaur, University of Bergen, explore the gap between consumers’ environmental concerns and their actual green apparel purchasing behaviour.

Sustainable Clothing: Why do we buy it – and why not?

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Prof. Mototaka Sakashita, Keio Business School, and his fellow researchers explore what makes us buy green and sustainable clothing.

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The Global Minimum Tax: Painful yet gainful for both the company and society Professor Antonio De Vito, Alma Mater University of Bologna and IE Business School, is an accomplished researcher and a member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of International Accounting, Auditing, and Taxation, and Accounting in Europe. His research into the Global Minimum Tax was the feature of an insight in the recently published Routledge-CoBS book Responsible Finance & Accounting. Here, Prof. De Vito states the case for the reform.

The Global Minimum Tax: Painful yet gainful for both companies and society

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Prof. Antonio De Vito, IE Business School & Alma Mater University of Bologna states the case for the Global Minimum Tax

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Solidarity Fintech in Action. Published in the Routledge-CoBS book Responsible Finance & Accounting, Professor Eduardo Diniz, FGV-EAESP, provides a spotlight on his research into solidarity finance in Brazil and one of the country’s flagbearers – Palmas e-Dinheiro, a Solidarity Fintech owned by Banco Palmas.

Solidarity Fintech in Action

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Prof. Eduardo Diniz, FGV-EAESP, on his research into solidarity finance in Brazil and one of the country’s solidarity fintech flag-bearers.

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The Student’s Friend, the Educator’s Foe: Debunking ChatGPT’s contentious academic reputation. Eva Fitzpatrick, Trinity Business School Runner up in the 2023 CoBS Student CSR article competition, explores the reaction to ChatGPT in academic circles and sees this as an opportunity to engage in long-required, positive change in teaching and learning approaches.

The Student’s Friend, the Educator’s Foe: Debunking ChatGPT’s contentious academic reputation

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Eva Fitzpatrick, Trinity Business School, explores the reaction to ChatGPT in an attempt to debunk its contentious academic reputation

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Measuring the Emotional and Social Value of Your Organisation. Professors Virginia Barba-Sánchez, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, José Luis Retolaza, Universidad de Deusto, Leire San-José, Universidad del País Vasco, and Adrián Zicari, ESSEC Business School, are the editors for a special issue of Frontiers about Emotional and Social Value of Organisations. In this conversation with the authors, the CoBS explores this special issue.

Measuring the Emotional and Social Value of Your Organisation

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Prof. Adrian Zicari, ESSEC Business School, and his fellow researchers explore the benefits of measuring social and emotion value in firms.

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Where ESG Doesn’t Pay Off. Tying executive pay to environmental or social outcomes sounds like a good idea. In practice, it’s throwing good money after bad. Pierre Chaigneau, Associate Professor of Finance at Smith School of Business, explains.

Where ESG Doesn’t Pay Off

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Prof. Pierre Chaigneau, Smith School of Business, explores how linking executives’ pay to ESG doesn’t really pay off.

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