Linked to our founding role in the One Planet MBA and One Planet Education Networks (a partnership with WWF international), we have conducted several projects at the intersection of value-creation (business), the constituents of life (nature) and what becomes practically and culturally precious (value). For example we conducted 8 case studies of how multi-national companies in China are innovating specifically to reduce their environmental footprint. This evolved into a focus on their supply chains, and gave rise to three articles in the Financial Times, two conference papers (for ISPIM), two refereed journal articles (Triflova et al 2013; Gosling et al 2015), 4 teaching cases (with Jia) and a book (Jia, Gosling & Witzel, 2015). A study of the impact of international companies on agricultural producers in Colombia, and the leadership of the interface between these local and international firms. This took a special focus on the dairy industry and may contribute to the peace-building process in than country. This is in collaboration with colleagues at Univerisdad de Los Andes, (especially Dr Ximena Rueda) supported by a Newton-Caldas grant 2015-2018.

Much of our thinking in this domain is brought together in Sustainable Business: a One Planet Approach, a co-edited text-book (Jeanrenaud, Jeanrenaud and Gosling 2017)