Research topics include childhood heart problems, radiation, mental health
literacy, and education and mortality.
Sustainability strategy
Sustainability research
Business, economics and management are crucial to reaching the UN Sustainable Development Goals and our faculty publish research relevant to reaching most of the goals.
RESEARCH AT BI ESPECIALLY CONTRIBUTES TO THREE Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
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SDG 3 – Health and well-being
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SDG 16 – Peace, justice and strong institutions
Research topics include tax and accounting regulations, white-collar crime,
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SDG 17 – Partnership for the goals
Research topics include civilizing business enterprises, ESG and Socially
Responsible Investment, bank lending rates and monetary policy.
REPORT ON SUSTAINABILITY RESEARCH 2019
The Report on sustainability research at BI Norwegian Business School gives an overview of BI research related to reaching the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Key findings:
- 20 percent of all publications at BI contributed to at least one SDG.
- 30 percent of BI faculty published on topics related to sustainability.
- All eight departments at BI contributed with publications relevant to the SDGs.
- 80 percent of the publications relevant to the SDGs are journal articles, 40 percent of these are at ABS rank 3 or higher.
- BI researchers have publications relevant to all seventeen SDGs.
BI Business Review
Rich get richer, also in the platform economy
Crowd workers do not reap the benefits of flexible work.
BI Business Review
More value creation, less waste
How can we build a better world for the time after COVID-19?
BI Business Review
Meagre policy effects of gender quotas
More women in executive boards would change the prioritized policies, wouldn’t you think? New research shows us that may not be the case.
BI Business Review
Why Climate Change Won’t Be Solved by Better Decisions at the Supermarket
Do you know what we can use recycled plastic bags for?
News
Funding for Coronavirus Supply Chain Task Force
Professor Marianne Jahre heads project to recommend security of supply improvements for medical goods.
News
Receives prestigious grant for research project about economic inequality
The European Research Council (ERC) has granted Andreas Fagereng, associate professor at the Department of Finance at BI Norwegian Business School, a “Starting Grant”, for a period of five years.
News
Mobilizing the Arts for an Inclusive Digital Transformation
Professor Christian Fieseler heads EU-project on the arts for a sustainable and inclusive digital future.
News
Aid to Tax Havens?
Significant amounts of development aid may have been diverted by domestic elites and stashed in tax havens, according to research from Associate Professor Jørgen Juel Andersen.
MAJOR ONGOING INITIATIVE RELEVANT TO THE SDGS
Research Centres:
- Research Centre for Construction Industry works with sustainability and climate questions, and is relevant to reaching SDG9 Industry, innovation and infrastructure, and SDG 13 Climate action.
- Research Centre for Health Care Management is relevant to reaching SDG 3 Good health and well-being.
- Research Centre for Applied Macroeconomics and Commodity Prices (CAMP) works with macroeconomic stability, forecasting and crisis prevention and is relevant to reaching SDG 17 Partnership for the goals.
- Research Centre for Internet and Society works with questions related to digital inequality and social and labour characteristics of the sharing economy, and is relevant to reaching SDG 8 Decent work and economic growth and SDG 10 Reduces inequalities.
Research projects:
- Centre for Connected Care (C3) is relevant to SDG 3 Good health and well-being.
- Measures for Improved Availability of Medicines and Vaccines is relevant to SDG 3 Good health and well being.
- Spatial Inference on Oil and Economic Development is relevant to SDG 8 Decent work and economic growth and SDG 17 Partnership for the goals.
- ARTSFORMATION is relevant to SDG 10 Reduced inequalities.
- Future Ways of Working in the Digital Economy is relevant to SDG 10 Reduced inequalities.
- Climate 2050 is relevant to reaching SDG 13 Climate action.