Publications, practitioner toolkits, event recordings and recommended reading from the CSR Science Hub and the wider field.
Tracks how ten major European corporations used social media for CSR communication across two periods, 2012–2013 and 2019–2020.
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A qualitative study of how Amsterdam's municipality and social entrepreneurs work together, and where their operating logics pull apart.
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Applies Value-Belief-Norm theory to stance detection, comparing how crowdworkers and NLP specialists annotate discussion of European sustainability initiatives.
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How social media audiences judged the authenticity of Tesla's ventilator initiative during the pandemic.
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Examines what misleading CSR claims do to audiences on social media, and how effective debunking them turns out to be.
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Eighteen interviews with Dutch food-waste social enterprises, examining why they measure impact at output level but resist measuring it at outcome level.
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A book chapter on how companies positioned themselves as corporate citizens during the COVID-19 crisis.
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A framework for understanding the drivers and environmental influences behind dietary transitions towards a sustainable food system.
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A survey experiment in the Netherlands examining when audiences read diversity advertising as political, and how that differs across ethno-religious and sexual-orientation diversity.
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A mixed-methods study using the Reasoned Action Approach to identify the beliefs shaping whether university programme directors intend to make a sustainability course mandatory.
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A book chapter on how corporate advocacy on social media can function as a lever for societal change.
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Applies the Information Adoption Model to ask when sustainability influencers actually shift what consumers intend to do.
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How social influence and self-image expression shape the way consumers pass on CSR messages about digital-native food brands.
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The Hub's first white paper. We analysed the social media posts of the top 20 European and US companies for diversity-related content before (2024) and after (2025) the election of Donald Trump, and found a decline in both regions in 2025.
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