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 all 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, political rents and voter information, corruption, and political coups.
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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.
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 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 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.
"BI contributes to the sustainability agenda with relevant research-based knowledge. By being a research-based business school, we are well-positioned for contributing to the sustainability agenda through research that improves our understanding of the vital role corporations, business and economics play in finding sustainable solutions for the future."
Professor & Provost for Research and Academic Resources
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.
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