We found that as income inequality increases, easing regulations that impede new business start-ups and facilitating access to credit from the financial sector, is positively associated with per capita economic growth.
In many cases, corruption within organizations occurs in phase transitions, not in consistent patterns. Additionally, even though the initiator proposes corruption to the receiver, the receiver’s acceptance further reinforces the initiator’s corruptive intentions.
Given that business drives much of this activity, how should business schools respond to these challenges? What would business and management schools do if they understood and accepted Earth system science findings on how global economic activities are degrading the resilience of the biosphere?
Sustainability challenges demand radical new approaches that are multi-disciplinary, even trans-disciplinary. Paying attention to one sector, or even one body of literature, will likely be ineffective in bringing about the transformations that are needed to bring humankind into alignment with nature’s realities in sustainable ways.
This foundational article, and the subsequent work that has cited this study, shows that not only do levels of development and economic metrics like GDP vary across countries, but legal systems also differ, as do cultural norms, industrial histories, and the types of economic activities that dominate. This variability thus leads to a range of different social, environmental or economic issues in each country.
As part of a Business and Society Special Issue Call for Papers, we invite submissions that seek to shed light on facets and dimensions of stakeholder engagement. But what is stakeholder engagement, and why is it relevant? We shed light on these issues so as to pave a way for potential submissions to this topical special issue.
Things get worse before they get better: how international companies’ social performance first harms their financial performance as they expand their presence abroad, and only pays off in the long run.
What an amazing 60 years Business & Society has had! In the journal's 60th volume this year, we celebrate the success of the journal with several new initiatives. Some of these will be announced later in the year, but we’d like to reflect now on what has been established in the domain of business and society and what opportunities lie ahead of us.
Banks’ reputation during a financial crisis depends not only on financial, but also non-financial features. Therefore, a winning strategy to protect organizational reputation during a financial crisis should include both the financial and non-financial features.
We trace the evolution of memes related to marriage equality from the mid-1960s until 2015 when the US Supreme Court determined that such equality was the law of the land.
