Does GRI Sustainability Reporting Pay Off?
Our research analyzed the impact of the adoption of Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) guidelines in sustainability reporting on Chinese firms’ profitability and the factors affecting this relationship.
Civil Society in Crisis: The NGOization of Palestine
We summarize and update our recently published paper that investigated how non-state civil society organisation in Palestine shifted their original governance focus from mobilization and resistance to embrace new governance regimes focused on providing welfare.
How nature is driving organizations to diverging sustainability pathways
By using a socioecological systems perspective, I explain how firms manage natural resource scarcity. It drives firms value that natural environment to become more sustainable, and those that see the natural environment as a tool for economic gain to become more exploitative.
2020 Best Paper Award
Presenting the five BAS papers that were the finalists of the journal’s Best Paper Award. The papers are open-access until end March 2022!
Managing Tensions in Collaborative Cross-Sector Business Models for Sustainability
Our study examines the pre-pandemic path of “blood, toil, tears and sweat” that it took to develop telecare in Spain through collaborative cross-sector business models that included government, businesses, nonprofits, and informal actors under the leadership of the Spanish Red Cross. Specifically, we explore in which ways tension management contributed to the development of telecare as a sustainability innovation.
Using sustainable business models to support socio-ecological resilience
We argue that there is a need for firms to start organizing their business models in such a way that they support the resilience of the socio-ecological systems – and not just improve their own sustainability performance.
Achieving greater sustainability impact from cross-sector collaborations
We take an in-depth look at a cross-sector collaboration (CSC) in the textile industry and how it is governed to achieve its collective goals. Drawing on the business model concept, we unpacked how CSC orchestrators govern collaborative value creation and private and social value capture.
What makes a capitalist system authoritarian?
Our study provides a new conceptualisation of state capitalism that allows us to distinguish when state intervention is problematic from a liberal democratic standpoint and when it is not. Specifically, our study provides two important insights for policymakers, practitioners, and activists at a time when defending liberal democracy against authoritarianism has become a pressing issue, but when the desirability of a minimalist economic role of the state has lost its appeal.
Why Companies Adopt Supply Chain Codes of Conduct
What do companies do to prevent abuses far from their corporate headquarters? Many have adopted supply chain codes of conduct. Our study determines what drove the diffusion of this new organizational practice.
How can cross-sector actors develop a joint sustainable business model?
Cross-sector partnerships that aim to collaboratively develop sustainable business models encounter various tensions that emerge from the actors’ divergent interests. We show how partners resolve these tensions by engaging in one of two processes: collective orchestration or continuous search.