Most Cited: A new look at the CSR-Financial Performance link
One of the most cited articles in the last 3 years at Business & Society is a meta-analysis of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate financial performance (CFP). The article, by Qian Wang, Junsheng Dou, and Shenghua Jia, looks at how a few different contextual factors moderate this oft-examined relationship. Prior meta-analysis examining the CSR-CFP […]
When does CSP pay for International firms?
The following blog discussion was originally posted on Sage Publishing’s Business and Management Ink blog, here, and we are pleased to reproduce it with their kind permission: -Tim Hart, The University of Tulsa [We’re pleased to welcome author Alan Muller of the University of Groningen. Dr. Muller recently published an article in Business & Society entitled “When […]
Boldly Going into the new Anthropocene Future
The following blog discussion was originally posted on Sage Publishing’s Business and Management Ink blog, here, and we are pleased to reproduce it with their kind permission: -Tim Hart, The University of Tulsa [We’re pleased to welcome authors Andrew J. Hoffman of the University of Michigan and P. Devereaux Jennings of University of Alberta. They recently […]
Most Cited: New Evidence on CSR-CFP Relationship
The most cited article at Business & Society in the last 3 years is an article entitled “A Meta-Analytic Review of Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Financial Performance: The Moderating Effects of Contextual Factors.” This work, published by Qian Wang, Junsheng Dou, and Shenghua Jia (all at Zheijang Univeristy, Hangzhou, China) provides new evidence to […]
What is the Answer?
Recently, in my undergraduate Ethics and Social Responsibility course, a student relayed her experience of studying abroad in a multi-discipline setting. Most of the other students in the program were from non-business settings, such as political psychology, pre-law, sociology, philosophy, language, and other courses. From comments made during the course, she had the distinct impression […]
Most Read: The Evolution of CSR
On the publisher’s page for our journal, Business & Society, lists are kept for the most read and most cited articles. Most of the ‘most read’ articles are those published in the last three or four years. But not the most read article. That honor belongs to Archie Carroll, who’s article Corporate Social Responsibility: Evolution […]
Just World Fallacy and the Challenge of Inequality in Organizations
Does inequality pose special challenges for organizations? Drawing on ancient moral philosophy, as well as more recent work on a particular cognitive bias known as the ‘Just World Fallacy’, I argue that it does. Research into the Just World Fallacy reveals that when confronted with examples of injustice, experimental participants tend to show disdain for […]
Origin Story: How the Social Issues in Management field all began
Have you ever wondered who the principle players were behind the creation and development of the Social Issues in Management/Business and Society field and the SIM Division of the Academy of Management? What about factors in the environment that contributed to these developments? The upcoming special issue of Business & Society contains insights into the […]
When Is There a Sustainability Case for Corporate Social Responsibility?
A new article entitled When Is There a Sustainability Case for CSR? Pathways to Environmental and Social Performance Improvements develops “a theoretical framework for examining pathways from institutional pressures through CSR management to sustainability performance” (from the abstract). Below, the authors Minna Halme1, Jukka Rintamäki2, Jette Steen Knudsen3, Leena Lankoski1, and Mika Kuisma1 recently answered […]
How companies use social networks to manage social issues: A conversation with the authors
Authors Aimei Yang (University of Southern California, Los Angeles) and Wenlin Liu (University of Houston) recently published CSR Communication and Environmental Issue Networks in Virtual Space: A Cross-National Study. Their article examines the effect that building cross-sectoral hyperlink networks with NGOs has for corporations to manage social issues. Dr. Yang was kind enough to share […]