Research clusters
Cluster A
Organising around Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and sustainability, with four main themes:
A1) CSR and sustainability as concepts and practice. Research on CSR and sustainability--with empirical, conceptual, and transformative orientations--has a long-standing tradition at Hanken. It assesses, critiques, and seeks to enhance concepts and practices that go under the labels of CSR and sustainability
A2) Responsible business-stakeholder relations. It explores how, in many instances, stakeholders are instrumental in instigating and elaborating RO
A3) Responsible innovation and technology. Research on RO suggests how CSR and sustainability can be inspirations for and simultaneously depend on innovative solutions, and it also problematizes how the innovation imperative can lead to undesirable consequences from a sustainability perspective
A4) Responsible supply chains and production networks. RO research seeks to understand how CSR and sustainability cannot solely rely on focal organizations and their stakeholders, but has ramifications and implications for wider production systems, often across national borders
Cluster B
Organising around gender, intersectionality and inequalities, with three main themes:
B1) Diversity, intersectionality
B2) (In)equalities, privileges and disadvantages in organizations
B3) Responsible management of work/non-work boundaries
Cluster C
Organising in situations where both social responsibility and inequalities are present, with three main themes:
C1) Responsible academia and education. Responsible academia and education refers to studies reflecting on our roles as business school academics, making explicit links to the objective of delivering responsible management education in line with UN PRME principles, of which Hanken is a Champion school
C2) Responsible digitalized organisation. Responsible digitalized organisation includes studies of both gamification as a potentially responsible practice and the impacts of digitalized socio-technologies in organisations
C3) Responsible marketing and markets. Responsible marketing and markets encompasses studies of market formations in developing countries; ethical consumption and branding; and the impacts of marketing ideology in organizations