How can BRASS research help business?
Understanding how to make progress towards a more sustainable society and economy will not emerge from researching businesses in isolation. The crucial factors determining whether and how businesses can become more socially responsible and sustainable are reflected in the relationships they have with their customers, their investors, their employees, their suppliers and the communities within which they exist. Can investors develop the patience to allow businesses to benefit from long-term investment in more sustainable technologies? Can consumers be persuaded to adopt less carbon-intensive lifestyles? What part can small businesses play in revitalising communities? How can large companies assist the small firms that supply them to adopt better environmental management standards?
These are the type of questions that require research into business relationships for sustainability, and they reflect a number of key themes within the BRASS research agenda.
Business Events
#BRASSChallenge - Ideas that Inspire
Sustaining Business Success: Future-proofing your business
In a world of diminishing resources, the challenge of delivering a sustainable business model is greater than ever. How can businesses be commercially successful while helping to create a more sustainable society and economy in a world with diminished credit, disposable income and natural resources? This event will focus on issues such as resilience, horizon-scanning, route mapping and forging potential partnerships to capitalise on opportunities to future-proof the way you lead and manage your business.
This event will featured a keynote speech from Peter Head CBE, named as one of The Guardian’s 50 people who could save the planet and by Time Magazine as one of 30 global eco-heroes who will be introduced by Dr Calvin Jones, an Economist at Cardiff Business School.
Business Briefings
Commercial and Industrial Waste Survey 2003 Briefing Notes
Series 1: Legislation and your Business
Series 2: Commercial and Industrial Sectors
Series 3: Individual Waste Types
Business Publications
- Pension Fund Trustees and Climate Change (ACCA Report)
- 'Selling Sustainability' Report (PDF)
- A guide to CSR for SME's
Highlighted Business Research
- The Construction and Demolition Sector - Development of a Waste Sector Plan
- Climate Change and the Future of Brands
- Sustainable Business Clusters
- WEEE Regulations
- Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
- Sustainable and Social Marketing
- Turning Big Ideas into Viable Social Enterprises
- Work-Life Research
