Associate Professor, Business administration, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences

Biography

Dr Høyer Toft holds a PhD in political theory from Aarhus University, after which he held research positions at the University of Copenhagen and Aalborg University and was a guest researcher at the Copenhagen Business School. His research is mainly in philosophy but with a cross-disciplinary approach in bioethics, political philosophy, sustainability and business ethics.

Selected publications

De Godoy, J., Otrel-Cass, K., & Toft, K. H. (2021) ‘Transformations of trust in society: a systematic review of how access to big data in energy systems challenges Scandinavian culture’.
Energy and AI, special issue on inclusion and diversity. Vol. 5, September https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666546821000331

Toft, K.H. & Rüdiger, M. (2020) ‘Mapping corporate climate change ethics: Responses among three Danish energy firms’. Energy Research and Social Science, vol. 59, January, pp. 1-17. *
(Ed.) Benjamin Sovacool. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2019.101286

Toft, K.H. (2020) ‘Climate change as a business and human rights issue – A proposal for a moral
typology’. Business and Human Rights Journal, vol. 5, issue 1, January, pp. 1-27.
(ed.) Florian Wettstein. https://doi.org/10.1017/bhj.2019.22

Toft, K.H. (2020) Corporate responsibility and political philosophy: Exploring the social liberal corporation. New York: Routledge. (Ed.) Andrew Weckenmann (182 pages), 30th March
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781315159621/corporate-responsibility-political-philosophy-kristian-høyer-toft

Toft, K.H. (2020) ‘COP 15 and the new climate agenda: The ethics of bottom-up governance’, Chapter 11 in (ed. Arler et al.) in Ethics in Danish Energy Policy. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 239-256. 28th April https://www.routledge.com/Ethics-in-Danish-Energy-Policy/Arler-Rudiger-Sperling-Toft-Poulsen/p/book/9780367441333