From emergency to emergence: corporate social media engagement during pandemic
The pandemic presents an opportunity for corporations around the world to reevaluate and reconnect with their key stakeholders.
Sarah Stephen
Lecturer in Strategy and Business Ethics at the University of Liverpool, United Kingdom. She holds a PhD in Economics, specialising in Management, from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Her research focuses on the intersection of society, the environment, and organizations, particularly in relation to environmental responsibility, ESG and responsible investing, climate action, and ethical decision-making.
The resilience of cooperative enterprises
Even though they are no magical passe-partout, cooperatives can be a source of inspiration for constructing a post-corona society that puts the economy at the service of humankind.
Deceiving the law? Symbolic and substantive corporate responses to Modern Slavery legislation
We contend that anti-slavery corporate policies and structures can be ‘symbolic’ responses to slavery without being ‘substantive’ (meaning that such responses symbolize attention to law and legal principles, but do little or nothing to effectuate legal ideas within corporate organizations).
Climate Change, COVID-19 & Systemic Racism: Where is the Attention Now?
In a time when managers and CEOs are voluntarily or somehow forced to be activists, their attention to social and environmental issues and the grand challenges of 2020 is now under the society’s microscope.
Can contact tracing apps stop the pandemic?
How can the population be encouraged to use contact tracing apps?
From Vaccine Racing to Living in a Fish Bowl: Are We Speeding or Learning?
Speed comes with risk. This leads us to propose that societal and industry leaders, together with citizens, have not sufficiently considered the alternative: Collective learning, i.e. sharing knowledge that can be leveraged and combined with that of others.
Citizenspeak: How corporations use corporate citizenship to speak as and for the people
We investigate how the Australian mining industry convinced the Australian government to drop a proposed tax on the mining industry’s super-profits (that is, an additional company tax after the subtraction of a tax-free allowance).
Business Schools Can Take the Driver’s Seat in the Age of COVID-19
Can a Black Swan event, such as COVID-19, lead into a possible rapid deinstitutionalization of business schools? And, if so, how can we respond to ensure long-term sustainability?
Accelerating “Openness” for an Informed Society: A Positive New Normal?
How can business leaders productively process the sheer volume and pace of information sharing, let alone parse out good science from bad? More significant still, how will they proactively support society in making sense of critical, possibly life-saving, information?
No Panacea: Insider Control of Corporations and Environmental Performance
We examine firms with a dual-class share structure where insiders (officers and directors) have voting control over the firm that exceeds their ownership stake. We find that when these insiders have significantly more voting control, their firms demonstrate poorer, rather than better, environmental performance.
