Category: Special Issue

As a result of neoliberal imperatives, the corporate social responsibility practices of corporations in the Nigerian oil sector are not effective

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We examined four large cross-sector partnerships for community sustainability to understand the perceived value of resources to the participating organizations, as well as their implemented structural features.

Concerted action is a prerequisite for the future development of sustainability-driven business models. A new special issue of Business & Society focuses on how organisations work across sectors to build collaborative solutions to complex sustainability challenges.

We address the ethical responsibilities of businesses related to human trafficking. We argue that due diligence, important as it is in raising consciousness of the problem of human trafficking, is insufficient because human trafficking is a structural injustice.