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.…
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,…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
Economic inequality is one of the most pressing issue of our times and organizational scholars have recently turned their attention to it. Given the mandate of Business and Society, we wanted to provide a platform for research on this topic…
Imagine you’ve just stepped out of the movie theater after having really enjoyed watching Fifty Shades of Grey. Then, you pull out your smart phone and look up the “Rotten Tomatoes” rating. It’s a lowly, splattered 25%! Does this change…
