Conversations with the Editors: Special Issue on “Conceptualizing, Theorizing, and Measuring the Contributions of Business to Refugee Crises”
How refugee crises impact the relationship between business and society and what can businesses do in addressing these crises.
Building resilient societies and ecosystems
Strategies to build the resilience of the systems that corporations depend on: economies, societies and ecosystems.
Inequality and Community in Organisations
Does inequality pose special challenges for organisations? Drawing on Aristotle’s ethical thought, as well as more recent work on a particular cognitive bias known as the ‘Just World Fallacy’, I argue that it does.
Does Corporate Responsibility Deliver? Broken Pathways to Business Sustainability
We analyzed firms’ corporate responsibility activities against their resulting sustainability performance, and identified three instances of broken pathways.
It is time to unlearn the tried-and-trusted green narrative
It is time to unlearn certain boundaries of what sustainability looks like: in a world where the most progressive states actively promote these unproblematized visions of idyllic sustainability, where can our hope be for reconstructing a better future on the basis of actual sustainability challenges?
Liberation theology might disentangle the corporate-sectarian collusion
The paper explores whether business school curriculum can be modified to respond to this crisis of democracy.
Should we pay attention to religiosity in the corporate space?
Given the inconsistency and the need to generate insights to understand how religion affects organisations, we select one of the most religious countries in the world – Nigeria – to examine the link between religion and corporate governance.
Religions have a central yet underexplored impact on business & society
Faith is a social fact that is underexplored in studies at the intersection of business and society. As it is oftentimes quite contentious, it is almost a taboo topic.
Religion as a Macro Social Force Affecting Business: Concepts, Questions, and Future Research
While religion is seen as a taboo subject in organizational research and management practice, it still plays a significant role in the vast majority of societies.
Deceiving the law? Symbolic and substantive corporate responses to Modern Slavery legislation
We contend that anti-slavery corporate policies and structures can be ‘symbolic’ responses to slavery without being ‘substantive’ (meaning that such responses symbolize attention to law and legal principles, but do little or nothing to effectuate legal ideas within corporate organizations).