Journal Articles
Does allowing China’s privately-owned firms to buy equity in large state-owned enterprises have the potential to improve their CSR performance? It does when these firms have restricted access to financial and other resources, the real barriers requiring effective government interventions.
- By: Bin Li, Lei Xu, Ron P. McIver, Xin Liu, & Ailing Pan
Invitation for submissions for a Business & Society Special Issue seeking incisive research that illuminates how corruption and wrongdoing may emerge in contemporary organizations and societies, as well as strategies to effectively address these challenges.
- By: Stefan Schembera, Armando Castro, Don Lange, Kathleen Rehbein, & Punit Arora
When executives move to a new company, they bring their CSR recipe with them.
We developed a CSR reports quality evaluation model using a linguistic-based theoretical analytical tool, semiotics. This is a valuable tool for both management and CSR communication researchers. It can be used for qualitative analysis or as a quantitative measure of CSR quality.
- By: Kemi C. Yekini
Institutional change is a complex phenomenon. While past studies have examined this phenomenon in various manner, few had noted change scenarios where a change takes place first and then reverts. This article employs the concept of institutional elasticity to explain the reform process in the Indian Petroleum Exploration and Production Sector, specifically examining how these reforms initially went ahead as planned, but later the changes reverted.
- By: Kshitij Awasthi, K V Gopakumar, & Abhoy K Ojha
Even though the lives of Indigenous peoples have been impacted by business practices (often negatively), they have been largely excluded from business and management research. Yet, Indigenous peoples have rich experiences and holistic community-based enterprises that can contribute significantly to management research and in exploring sustainable pathways urgently required for planetary health. In this e-conversation, the Editors of an upcoming Special Issue at Business & Society on Global Indigenous Peoples: Expanding the Intersection of Business and Society give deeper insights on the need to rightly recognize Indigenous populations, the role of businesses, and the role of management scholarship in elevating and amplifying Indigenous research.
- By: Vijayta Doshi, Ana Maria Peredo, & Chellie Spiller
The sharing economy is a socio-technical system where people or organizations share assets or services with each other, either for free or for a fee. However, the role of sharing economy models in addressing social issues is not well understood, especially in contexts with weak institutions. Therefore, the guest editors of an ongoing Call for Papers invite submissions seeking to shed light on the societal impacts, benefits, and potential risks of sharing economy models at the base of the pyramid.
- By: Babita Bhatt, Israr Qureshi, Dhirendra Mani Shukla, & Christopher Sutter
Philanthropic grants help social enterprises grow but may not improve financial performance, at least in the short-term. Grants help social enterprises to hire more employees and attract debt financing, but have no effect on revenues and equity finance, shows our study of over 3,400 social enterprises over a one-year period.
- By: Saurabh A. Lall & Jacob Park
There are increasing calls for responsible leadership, but how exactly is the research on responsible leadership relevant for the intersection of business and society? Can this form of leadership truly address the grand challenges confronting the world? In this e-conversation, the Editors of a Special Issue at Business & Society on Responsible Leadership Action for Business and Society: Addressing the Grand Societal Challenges of Our Time give deeper insights on these and more questions.
- By: Mary Sully de Luque, Christof Miska, Christian Voegtlin, Alexander Newman, & Jill Brown
