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 all of the goals.

Research at BI especially contributes to five Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)

SDG 3 – Good Health and Well Being

Research topics include medical supply chains, healthcare management and health technology.
SDG 8 –Decent Work and Economic Growth

Research topics include employee wellbeing, a good working environment, and marginalized workers.
SDG 12 – Responsible Consumption and Production

Research topics include sustainable supply chains, and marketing and consumer uptake of sustainable foods and other green products.

SDG 16 – Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Research topics include tax and accounting regulations, white-collar crime, effective bureaucracy, and elections.
SDG 17 – Partnerships for the Goals

Research topics include macroeconomic forecasting and crisis prevention.

Major ongoing initiative relevant to the SDG's

Research Centres:

Research Centre for Construction Industry works with sustainability and climate questions, and is relevant to reaching SDG 9 Industry, innovation and infrastructure, SDG 11 Sustainable cities and communities, 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 Partnerships 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 Reduced 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 Partnerships 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.
MACROCAMP on the corona crisis, structural change and macroeconomic policy is relevant to SDG 17 Partnerships for the goals.
Funding Frictions after the Global Financial Crisis is relevant to SDG 17 Partnerships for the goals.

Report on sustainability research 2020-2021

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:

In the period 2020-2021, about 30 percent of publications by BI affiliated researchers are relevant to reaching at least one SDG.
All nine departments publish on topics relevant to sustainability.
BI research covers all 17 SDGs.
80 percent of the publications relevant to the SDGs are journal articles, 35 percent of these are in journals with ABS rank 3 or higher.

Sustainability research

Research at BI especially contributes to five Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)

SDG 3 – Good Health and Well Being

SDG 8 –Decent Work and Economic Growth

SDG 12 – Responsible Consumption and Production

SDG 16 – Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

SDG 17 – Partnerships for the Goals

Major ongoing initiative relevant to the SDG's

Report on sustainability research 2020-2021

BI joins project on sustainable food production

BI launches new global scale up program to accelerate digital transformation

Students show how to fix the global food system

Self-determination in the digital economy