0:00:04i try to research the business case for responsibility unsustainable this why try to understand
0:00:13when companies do good things for the apartment over the decoding society if you take
0:00:19an example there is this ice cream a good old ben and jerry's maybe you
0:00:23heard of the maybe many people are part of them
0:00:26and ben and jerry's does a good things what the environment and that within a
0:00:29society so that support a fair trade or they pay their workers a living wage
0:00:34what i tried to understand is you know when they do these things does that
0:00:40actually influence
0:00:42consumers intention to by their ice cream rather than buying competitors isochrony well i
0:00:49just came out of finishing up open publishing your time in this book as activists
0:00:54called leveraging corporate responsibility the stakeholder groups to maximizing business and social value but published
0:01:01by cambridge university press
0:01:02and this book actually looks that
0:01:06responsibility in sustainability through the high off the consumer and so the eyes of the
0:01:11employee and understands kind of you know what conditions to
0:01:16companies need to
0:01:18implement or abide by for these stakeholder groups to reward these companies for their proper
0:01:25response like initiatives
0:01:26the corp responsibility manager the sustainability manager is a fairly peripheral part of a company's
0:01:34lie and so i wanted to do something about it and so that's my latest
0:01:39research project so what i'm doing now is i have started this roundtable just call
0:01:43the sustainable business roundtable
0:01:46and there are companies that are participating in this town table and that sixteen companies
0:01:51that what is a bit right now including the likes of you know microsoft nestle
0:01:55sensor audience you name it so that we have sixteen really big companies
0:02:00and the sustainability managers of these companies basically come to my roundtable along with colleagues
0:02:06from other departments the more we can get the sustainability manager into contact with the
0:02:13war trampled more important departments up optimization
0:02:18over time sustainability is going to be kind of more mainstream and be more integrated
0:02:23into kind of the d n a of the of the organisation so there is
0:02:28really need for research up to be don all these emerging market in the area
0:02:33of innovation in their of sustainability to troll
0:02:36you know what strategies and what a actions the consumers and other stakeholders in these
0:02:42countries kind of to undertake so we need to figure out ways to deal with
0:02:46these completely in the in the emerging market to kind of have a better future
0:02:52for all of us collectively