In the last decade, the world has experienced the largest forced displacement of people in modern history. Finding and sustaining work is among the most important challenges that refugees face in host countries. The current project will investigate the role of organisational and leadership practices in supporting sustainable careers among refugees.

We investigate how industries that focus on sustainability are inter-related with other ones. Using the recent advances in machine learning, we create a dynamic relatedness-topology in the innovation space. The topology allows us to examine how innovation in sustainable technologies evolves in time, and how each of these technologies are dynamically related to other ones.

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U. Acikalin, T. Caskurlu, G. Hoberg & G.M. Phillips(2022). Intellectual Property Protection Lost and Competition: An Examination Using Machine Learning. NBER Working Paper No. w30671. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4282521

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Corruption presents a major global challenge. Effective anti-corruption policies requires empirical research into the forces that shape corrupt behaviour. Although mostly a social act, little is known about the collaborative roots of corruption around the globe. This project is the first to collect behavioural data on collaborative corruption across 20 countries.

Dissemination:

A. Dorrough, N. Köbis, B. Irlenbusch, S. Shalvi & A. Gloeckner (2023, preprint). Bribery across nations, Research Square. Available at https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-1690288/v2 / https://osf.io/x235e/? (dataset)

Amsterdam is a pioneer in sustainability. However, we know little about what roles companies adopt in sustainable city initiatives. This project combines an outreach event (with city representatives, sustainability researchers, and UvA community) and a qualitative study of how Amsterdam addresses the Sustainable Development Goals on sustainable cities and partnerships.

Information technology has transformed the economy from reliance on physical capital to innovation produced by skilled employees. The human capital of a firm’s workforce forms an increasingly valuable intangible asset. The finance department is organising a small-scale symposium to study this development, with research presentations and an open-ended panel discussion.

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During economic booms, vulnerable communities either consciously support projects that entail excessive risk or are not fully aware of the dangers. This study investigates how the collapse of a mining dam in Brazil changed the voting, migration, and work decisions of people living in mining areas elsewhere.

Human (over)consumption is a major driver of climate change. Individuals thus inevitably need to change their consumption behaviours. We investigate whether and how mindfulness - the awareness that arises by paying attention to the present moment - can contribute to more sustainable consumption behaviours, and consequently the preservation of our planet.

In emerging countries, to establish collaborations enabling the effective transfer of knowledge, trust and openness may be the key mechanisms ensuring the optimisation of the innovation potential. How can multinational enterprises engage in behaviours favoring conducive practices for innovation in institutionally (and technologically) weak environments?

This project aims to study the relationships between socioeconomic variables and species’ population trends and levels of endangerment. The project will explore these relationships at the species level for a subset or small-ranged species, which arguably gives a particularly policy relevant subset and minimises regional spillovers.

The number of freelancers has increased in the last decade. Unfortunately many freelancers do not save enough for retirement. The antecedents that determine whether freelancers intent to take measures regarding their pension plan, are fully not clear. This study seeks to identify the factors that affect pension engagement among freelancers.

This research will study misperceptions and uncertainty about the carbon emissions associated with everyday activities. In a second step, we experimentally investigate the effect of supplying information about the true impact level on the willingness to pay to avoid that impact.

Dissemination:

T. Imai, D.D. Pace, P. Schwardmann & J. van der Weele (2022, December). Correcting Consumer Misperceptions about CO2 Emissions, CESifo working paper No. 10138. Available at: https://www.cesifo.org/en/publications/2022/working-paper/correcting-consumer-misperceptions-about-co2-emissions