Best Paper Award winners: 2017-2021
This article summarises the Best Paper Award winners for the past five years.
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.
Conversations with the Editors: Responsible Leadership Action for Business and Society: Addressing the Grand Societal Challenges of Our Time
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.
Pursuing Sustainability in a Business-as-Usual World
Community, resourcefulness, and vision allow people to persist in sustainability initiatives when change seems insurmountable.
An Inside-Out Perspective: Creating a More Socially-Oriented Corporate Purpose
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) not only improves firms’ reputation for managing social and environmental concerns, but also increases their internal capabilities to manage risks by facilitating the adoption of more advanced risk management practices. This ensures that all risks are evaluated at the firm level to avoid the omission of emerging risks and possible ripple effects.
How Do Community Influential Directors Influence Corporate Social Performance?
Hiring community influential directors especially those with ties to boards of non-profits or boards of companies with higher CSP can improve company’s CSP.
How to Design Cross-Sector Partnerships to Strengthen System Capacity?
From “quick fixes” to supporting system capacity: How to better embed cross-sector partnerships in the social issue context
Conversations with the Editors: Special Issue on “Health is Everyone’s Business: Embodying Business-Health Research”
What is the link between public health and business? Can businesses contribute to the population health of regions with inadequate health regulations or infrastructure? Editors of a Special Issue at Business & Society answer these and more.
How do leaders with disabilities advance in their careers?
This research unpacks facilitators of career advancement and leadership among persons with disabilities. These facilitators include career self-management strategies, supportive social networks, and organizational and societal factors that are all required for career success.
Unbelievable! How fake news affects the relationship between business and society
What are fake news, propaganda, alternative facts, and post-truths? How does fake news impact the social evaluations of businesses? What can businesses do when their reputation is threatened by fake news? Editors of a Special Issue at Business & Society answer these questions and more....
Do Markets Punish or Reward CSR Disclosure-Performance Gap?
We investigate the financial market’s reactions to such decoupling practices by firms and the monitoring role of financial analysts in reducing the CSR disclosure-performance gap.
