Madlen Sobkowiak

ORCID: 0000-0002-0107-1121
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Research Areas
  • Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting
  • Environmental Sustainability in Business
  • Environmental Conservation and Management
  • Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
  • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems
  • Management and Organizational Studies
  • Coastal and Marine Management
  • Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
  • Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
  • Climate Change and Geoengineering
  • Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies
  • Forest Management and Policy
  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
  • Community Development and Social Impact
  • Ethics in Business and Education
  • COVID-19 impact on air quality

Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales du Nord
2023-2025

University of Birmingham
2020-2022

Corporations are perceived as increasingly powerful and critically important to ensuring that irreversible climatological or ecological tipping points on Earth not crossed. Environmental impacts of corporate activities include pollution soils, freshwater the ocean, depletion ecosystems species, unsustainable use resources, changes air quality, alteration global climate. Negative social unacceptable working conditions, erosion traditional practices, increased inequalities. Multiple formal...

10.1146/annurev-environ-120120-052845 article EN Annual Review of Environment and Resources 2022-03-09

Purpose This research seeks to explain how a national government becomes capable of constructing an account its biodiversity performance that is aimed at enabling formulation policy in pursuit SDG 15: Life on Land. Design/methodology/approach The examines case study the construction UK government's annual report. analysed process framing space which SDG-15 challenge halting loss rendered calculable, such can see and understand own relation this challenge. Findings report relies upon data...

10.1108/aaaj-01-2019-3810 article EN Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal 2020-03-03

The biosphere crisis requires changes to existing business practices. We ask how corporations can become sustainability leaders, when constrained by multiple barriers collaboration for stewardship. describe scientists motivated, inspired and engaged with ten of the world's largest seafood companies, in a collaborative process aimed enable science-based systemic transformations (2015-2021). CEOs faced industry crises 2015 that incentivized novel approaches. New scientific insights, an...

10.1038/s41598-022-07023-8 article EN cc-by Scientific Reports 2022-03-04

Transnational companies have substantive impacts on nature: a hallmark of living in the Anthropocene. Understanding these through company provision information is precursor to holding them accountable for nature outcomes. The effect increasing disclosures (of varying quality) predicated ‘information governance’, an approach that uses disclosure requirements drive behaviour. However, its efficacy not guaranteed. We argue three conditions are required before possibility shape outcomes, namely:...

10.1098/rstb.2022.0325 article EN cc-by Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences 2024-04-21

As corporations have come to recognise their role in shaping the biosphere, there has been an increase inter-corporate cooperation, whereby together address issues of common concern. The rationale for developing a collective approach arises from realisation that "wicked" problems are beyond capacity any one organisation tackle. At same time, although collaborations exist practice landscape, little is known about characteristics academic perspective. Moreover, these initiatives raise...

10.1080/01559982.2024.2429229 article EN cc-by Accounting Forum 2025-01-03

ABSTRACTThe concept of planetary boundaries offers a framework for understanding and managing humanity's impact on Earth's ecological systems. These mean to delineate safe operating space in which human activities must remain ensure the stability critical Earth processes. Notwithstanding its potential, faces criticism reductionist nature, technocratic approach, lack consideration given social issues. This commentary explores current accounting research relating emphasises need broader range...

10.1080/0969160x.2023.2283019 article EN Social and Environmental Accountability Journal 2023-09-02

Abstract This paper seeks to understand the process by which biodiversity performance indicators can be developed. In doing so, this examines how measurements are inherently imperfect and reflects on implications of that imperfectness. Using document analysis semi‐structured interviews, research outlines case UK Department for Environment, Food Rural Affairs their work in developing indicators. Based concept measurements, conditions under productive leading fertile debate constant...

10.1002/bse.3133 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Business Strategy and the Environment 2022-05-18

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10.2139/ssrn.4785892 preprint EN 2024-01-01

With a broad range of accounting researchers ‘rediscovering’ corporate social responsibility (CSR), the number mainstream publications examining CSR disclosure practices has been vast...

10.1080/0969160x.2020.1711333 article EN Social and Environmental Accountability Journal 2020-01-02
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