Scandals as catalysers for activism
We conceptualise how scandals act as turning points, enabling forms of contestation that would not be otherwise possible.
Category Journal Article
Most Cited: A new look at the CSR-Financial Performance link
One of the most cited articles in the last 3 years at Business & Society is a meta-analysis of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate financial performance (CFP). The article, by Qian Wang, Junsheng Dou, and Shenghua Jia, looks at…
When does CSP pay for International firms?
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 author Alan Muller…
Boldly Going into the new Anthropocene Future
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.…
Most Cited: New Evidence on CSR-CFP Relationship
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,…
Just World Fallacy and the Challenge of Inequality in Organizations
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…
Origin Story: How the Social Issues in Management field all began
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…
When Is There a Sustainability Case for Corporate Social Responsibility?
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…
How companies use social networks to manage social issues: A conversation with the authors
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…
