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Supply Chains and Climate Impact: The pressing need for companies to become more accountable. How can companies move from isolated and enlightened to collaborative and pragmatic to reduce their carbon emissions? With the upcoming publication of Responsible Finance and Accounting: Performance and profit for better business, society and planet with publishers Routledge, a spotlight on book contributor Professor Frederik Dahlmann, Warwick Business School, and his research.

Supply Chains and Climate Impact: The pressing need for companies to become more accountable

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Prof. Frederik Dahlmann, Warwick Business School, looks at supply chains, their climate impact and the need for companies to act.

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The Oil Industry and Sustainable Energies: Risky seas ahead, or plain sailing? How are international oil companies facing the pressure to transform to renewables? Professor of Global Energy Michael Bradshaw at Warwick Business School, and Mathieu Blondeel, Professor of Global Energy Governance at the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), VU Amsterdam, explore the map of how they might navigate the potential storm ahead.

The Oil Industry and Sustainable Energies: Risky seas ahead, or plain sailing?

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How is the oil industry facing the pressure to transform to renewables? Profs Michael Bradshaw & Mathieu Blondeel explore the map ahead.

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Knowledge Transfer: Learning from smallholder farmer rituals in Ghana. When culture and worldviews clash, even a well-planned initiative to transfer knowledge can get bogged down and fail in the key stages of relationship-building and information exchange. Fascinating new research by Professors Anca Metiu, ESSEC Business School, and Mira Slavova, Warwick Business School, draws upon the farming communities of rural Ghana to highlight the role of rituals in effectively facilitating knowledge transfer.

Rituals and Knowledge Transfer: Learning from smallholder farmers in Ghana

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Profs. Anca Metiu and Mira Slavova, ESSEC and Warwick Business Schools, research farmers’ rituals as a key to unlocking knowledge transfer.

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Playing Out of Sync: What jazz teaches entrepreneurial leaders

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Andy Lockett, Dean of Warwick Business School and Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, together with Deniz Ucbasaran, Professor of Entrepreneurship at Warwick Business School, strike a high note with their research into how business leaders can learn from jazz. 

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Workplace Mental Health: How did the pandemic affect it? Professor Stephan Roper, Warwick Business School, Director of the Enterprise Research Centre, draws on pre-Covid and post-Covid research into workplace mental health to gauge how the UK workforce in the Midlands has coped, what measures firms have set up, and how employers are faring.  

Workplace Mental Health: How did the pandemic affect it?

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Prof. Stephan Roper, Warwick Business School, draws on research to explore the impact of the pandemic on workplace mental health.

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How to Be a Responsible Leader. “Responsibility always starts with the person at the top – and the right culture will trickle down.” Professor Dimitrios Spyridonidis, Warwick Business School, refreshes the call and takes us through the journey to becoming a responsible leader.

How to Be a Responsible Leader

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Prof. Dimitrios Spyridonidis, Warwick Business School, refreshes the call and takes us through the journey to becoming a responsible leader.

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Prof. Lory Barile, Warwick University, explores how a persuasive nudge can re-calibrate our assumptions to tackle climate change. Climate Change: Can we be nudged to act? Warwick Business School and Warwick University professor Lory Barile explores how we select what we want to strengthen our assumptions on climate change and how a positive and persuasive nudge can re-calibrate our assumptions and trigger climate action.

Climate Change: Can we be nudged to act?

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Prof. Lory Barile, Warwick University, explores how a persuasive nudge can re-calibrate our assumptions to tackle climate change.

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Energy supplies and the planet: How will Russia's war in Ukraine affect them? Michael Bradshaw, Professor of Global Energy at Warwick Business School and Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, analyses how the conflict in Ukraine is shaping European and US stopgaps and their effect on climate action.

Energy supplies and the planet: How will Russia’s war in Ukraine affect them?

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Prof. Michael Bradshaw, Warwick Business School, with how the conflict in Ukraine is shaping energy supplies and climate action.

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Disabled Employees: Will working from home overcome disadvantage?

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Kim Hoque, Warwick Business School, looks into how to provide effective action for disabled employees and beat the disability employment gap.

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Foreign Direct Investment and hot labour markets: Raising the bar. In the Big Tech era, knowledge-intensive companies are attracting strong inflows of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). Their rapid development is combined with the search for the best talent in order to maintain leadership. Professor Nigel Driffield, Warwick Business School, explores the implications of this phenomenon in terms of impact on domestic employment and skilled labour earnings.

Foreign Direct Investment and hot labour markets: Raising the bar

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Prof. Nigel Driffield, Warwick Business School, looks at the impact of foreign direct investment on labour markets and talent

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