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AUTHOR
Hans Christian Garman Johnsen
Forskningens regionale betydning
This chapter addresses the regional impact of research. The chapter presents, and partly develops, a framework for analysing how research in a region impacts the knowledge forms in the region. In order to do so, the chapter both presents a systemic approach to the impact of research-based knowledge, defines itself within a sociology of knowledge tradition and also, based on that, uses a model of a regional knowledge system as a framework for analysing the impact of different kinds of regionally related research. This model divides the regional knowledge system into areas characterised by either institutions, norms, attitudes or rules. The chapter used this model of the regional knowledge sy…
The long-term transformation of the concept of CSR: towards a more comprehensive emphasis on sustainability
AbstractThis article adds to the discussion of the long-term transformation of CSR, presenting a perspective on the interplay between CSR debate and public discourse on business responsibility. 50 years after Milton Friedman’s provoking claim that the only responsibility for business is to seek profit, a broader debate has emerged aligning CSR with an increasingly comprehensive concept of sustainability. We trace this evolution of the concept during the last three decades focusing on the intersection of economic, social, and environmental responsibility. Based on discourse analysis of news articles and opinion pieces in the largest public newspaper in Norway from 1990 until 2018, the study …