Sustainability Governance Group (SGG)
The Sustainability Governance Group (SGG) nurtures knowledge on sustainability governance across global contexts through research, publication, and engagement with policy and practice.
About SGG
About
The Sustainability Governance Group focuses on developing and supporting research, publication, and dissemination on the governance of sustainability in a variety of global contexts. The group’s work extends to sustainability education, fundraising, and outreach to policy and practice.
Purpose
The group aims to generate interdisciplinary knowledge on sustainability governance and contribute to the understanding of how sustainability is governed and organised. This includes attention to institutional contexts, power relations, organisational ethics, and mechanisms such as rules, standards, and incentives.
Focus and approach
SGG’s expertise spans a wide range of fields, from Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) to international development. The group’s shared interests lie at the intersection of the economic, social, and environmental dimensions of sustainability. Research explores governance approaches, tensions and trade-offs, intended and unintended impacts, and multi-level interactions (micro–meso–macro).
SGG’s work is grounded in economic, environmental, and social criteria of well-being and justice, with particular emphasis on Sustainable Development Goals 16 and 17.
Research focus
Areas of expertise
Private Authority and Public Policy
Global Value Chains MSIs, Partnerships, Standards
Regulation
Corporate Citizenship
Political CSR
Sustainability
Sustainable Development Goals
Sustainable Development
Global Production Network
International Supply Chains and International Trade
Human Rights
Labour
Environment
Tax and Finance
Anti-corruption
International Business
Research
Reflecting the imperatives for interdisciplinary approaches to sustainability, the group’s research spans a broad range of fields—from Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) to international development.
SGG’s shared interests lie at the intersection of the economic, social, and environmental dimensions of sustainability. Particular strengths include governance and sustainability as related to global value chains, CSR, development, public and private regulation, human rights, power and justice, human development and capabilities, international business, and the Sustainable Development Goals.
Within these areas, the research explores different approaches to governance, tensions and trade-offs, intended and unintended impacts, and multi-level interactions (micro–meso–macro) between governance processes.
By sustainability, the group refers to economic, environmental, and social criteria of well-being and justice. The SDGs provide a broad thematic framework, with particular emphasis on SDGs 16 and 17.
By governance, the group refers to how sustainability is governed and organised. This includes attention to:
- Institutions and institutional contexts that shape sustainability governance (e.g. international organisations, governments, and private authorities in business and civil society)
- The normative foundations of sustainability governance (power dynamics, societal morals, organisational ethics, legal norms, principles of justice, inequality)
- The mechanisms deployed (rules, incentives, standards, principles, “smart-mix” regulation, technological solutions)
SGG also engages with policymakers and practitioners to share insights, disseminate knowledge, and nurture collaborative endeavours that strengthen sustainability governance in practice.
Members
Contact
For more information, please contact the Group Coordinators Sarah Castaldi (sc@msc.dk) or Jeremy Moon (jm.msc@cbs.dk).
