Citizenspeak: How corporations use corporate citizenship to speak as and for the people
We investigate how the Australian mining industry convinced the Australian government to drop a proposed tax on the mining industry’s super-profits (that is, an additional company tax after the subtraction of a tax-free allowance).
No Panacea: Insider Control of Corporations and Environmental Performance
We examine firms with a dual-class share structure where insiders (officers and directors) have voting control over the firm that exceeds their ownership stake. We find that when these insiders have significantly more voting control, their firms demonstrate poorer, rather than better, environmental performance.
Regulating charities: snakes or ladders?
We examine two charities (a museum and a disability rights organization) that were in breach of this soft regulation; however, we suggest each faced different levels of reputational risk by doing so. We argue that charities are most at risk of being perceived as acting inappropriately when they breach regulations that are aimed at financial propriety.
Values may be the clue to building greener businesses
Our paper highlights the key role that values can play in addressing the profoundly urgent, messy and contentious issue of climate change.
“Is our product healthy or not ?”: How companies navigate changing values and norms
ur case study focused on the food industry and how it adapts its products to the changing definition of the value ‘health’. What is considered a “healthy” food product changes over time due to new scientific insights, new consumption habits, and changes in food production and sales.
The Revolving Doors of Washington and the Sliding Doors of Brussels
Our paper opens up the “black box” of the government affairs practices conducted by companies in Brussels and draws a comparison between the practices there and those in Washington D.C. We find that, although companies in both sites use similar resources, the daily management practices vary a lot.
How did corporations spread CSR from the U.S. to the rest of the world?
Why do firms adopt Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practices? How does CSR spread across the globe?
Are corporate saints more credible?
If companies make economic and social reasons for their sustainable investments known, they run the risk of their legitimacy being called into question. Our study shows that when individuals assume that a company’s sustainable investments are strategically motivated and driven by economic interests, they will assess companies’ credibility and legitimacy negatively.
Investors and CEOs be aware! A firm’s true value can be communicated to the market in a multitude of ways
The market rewards firms that engage in political activity, with significantly better performance on the day of their IPO
Scandals as catalysers for activism
We conceptualise how scandals act as turning points, enabling forms of contestation that would not be otherwise possible.