Abstract The Alibaba Group was one of the biggest and fastest growing businesses in China for about ten years. Among many other companies under the holding’s umbrella, Alibaba.com...
Abstract Kenya Tea Development Agency Limited (KTDAL) follows a unique model under which small tea farmers are shareholders. By the end of 2013, it had around 560,000 such...
Abstract Cofely, a large international technical services provider, is observing important changes at the fringes of its industry. Two industries that have experienced pressure towards being more environmentally...
Abstract The case reviews the rise of Guayakí, a company that sells energy drinks produced with leaves from Yerba Mate trees, and a significant decision it now faces. ...
Do you sometimes have itchy feet and wish you could explore, learn and share about environmental and sustainable energy projects on the ground? This happened to us. We had...
On June 16th-17th, the International Conference on Business, Policy and Sustainability was held at Copenhagen Business School with speakers including Hans Bruyninckx, Executive Director of the European Environment Agency,...
On Thursday June 23rd, members from oikos Paderborn, Cologne, Leipzig, Reutlingen, St Gallen and international, met to kick-off the Germany Meeting 2016. After getting to know each other a...
Abstract oikos was founded in 1987 by students who, in consequence to the absence of sustainability in their formal educational programmes, aimed to empower young leaders to drive sustainable...
The chocolate industry is confronted with serious sustainability challenges in cocoa production that may put long term cocoa supply at risk. Although sustainability challenges have been a concern for...
oikos Paderborn is hosting its annual conference, the Heldentag, on June 24th. The theme of this year will revolve around entrepreneurship and people who brought about sustainability-oriented change. Participants...