Professor Christopher Wright is casting new light on the role of business as both a contributor and potential provider of solutions to the climate crisis. He has led a major research project investigating business responses to climate change and has two books coming out this year.
Climate change, capitalism and corporations: Processes of creative self-destruction, with fellow researcher Professor Daniel Nyberg, is explores how corporate myths have hampered action on human-caused climate change, and how we can turn this around.
Wright C and Nyberg D (2015), ‘Climate Change, Capitalism, and Corporations: Processes of Creative Self-Destruction’, Cambridge University Press
Companies that have gender-balanced top management teams perform better than those dominated by men, particularly when they are dealing with adverse conditions, according to an international team of university researchers.