This is our intermediary position on the use of AI by authors, reviewers and the editorial team. We want to emphasize the importance and centrality of human judgement, human accountability, and transparency in and through any scholar work and review process. In addition, manuscripts are privileged material that should be protected from uploads and disclosures.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We will celebrate April as Dalit History Month, in line with our renewed vision – Leadership for Inclusion and Impact.
