Jilde Garst

Wageningen University & Research | WUR · Business Management & Organisation group

Transformative research is a broad and loosely connected family of research disciplines and approaches, with the explicit normative ambition to fundamentally question the status quo, change the dominant structures, and support just sustainability transitions by working collaboratively with society. When engaging in such science-practice collaborati...

While voluntary responsible business standards are more flexible than regulation and thus more responsive to changes in society, revising standards can have negative effects on compliance rates. We hypothesize that when non-compliance is visible to external stakeholders and participating firms receive a clear signal that their products are non-comp...

Purpose: Materiality assessments are at the core of sustainability reporting. This paper analyzes A) how transparent firms report on their materiality assessment; B) the methodological choices in materiality assessments; C) the resulting ESG topics; and D) the relation between materiality assessments and ESG performance. Furthermore, we shed light...

To innovate responsibly, an organization needs to absorb knowledge of the values and norms in society and integrate these values into the design of its innovations. This requires not only specific skills at the team level but also capabilities at the organizational level. Three organizational capabilities have been identified: a) value receptivity...

Materiality assessments play an important role in helping firms to select the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) topics to include in their sustainability report. This article presents the six main steps of materiality assessments, the methods used, and how the complexity, uncertainty, and evaluative nature of sustainability issues complic...

Previous Responsible Innovation (RI) research has provided valuable insights on the value conflicts inherent to societally desirable innovation. By observing the responses of firms to these conflicts, Value-sensitive Absorptive Capacity (VAC) captures the organizational capabilities to become sensitive to these value conflicts and thus, innovate mo...

The purpose of this report is to investigate and discuss the “reality of materiality” and materiality assessment, as it relates to ESG in current guidance and practice. It builds on WBCSD´s ESG Disclosure Handbook that helps companies improve their ESG reporting strategy and focus on what really matters. The intended audience for this report is co...

In the battle against overweight and diet-related diseases (e.g. type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases), there is an increasing pressure on food companies to reformulate the composition of their products. For this healthy product innovation, food companies need to navigate two types of conflict: 1) there is disagreement in society on what is...

In de strijd tegen overgewicht en dieet-gerelateerde ziekten (bijv. diabetes type 2 en cardiovasculaire ziekten) wordt de maatschappelijke druk op voedingsbedrijven om hun producten te herformuleren steeds groter. Voor deze gezonde productinnovatie moeten voedingsbedrijven omgaan met twee soorten conflicten: 1) in de maatschappij is er onenigheid o...

The majority of studies on absorptive capacity (AC) underscore the importance of absorbing technological knowledge from other firms to create economic value. However, to preserve moral legitimacy and create social value, firms must also discern and adapt to (shifts in) societal values. A comparative case study of eight firms in the food industry re...

Background: In responsible research and innovation (RRI), innovation is seen as a way in which humankind finds solutions for societal issues. However, studies on commercial innovation show that firms respond in a different manner and at a different speed to the same societal issue. This study investigates what role organizational motives play in th...

Background This study identifies the barriers and enablers for sustainability of interventions in primary and secondary prevention of diabetes. In the context of translational research, sustainability is defined as the continued use of program components and activities for the continued achievement of desirable program and population outcomes. Met...

Recently, fatty acid esters of monochloropropanediol (MCPD) and that of glycidol have been reported in refined edible oils. Since then a wealth of research has been published on the factors influencing the formation of these contaminants in foods. It can be noted that the predominant precursors in a given matrix will not necessarily be the same as...