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How an immoral intention percolates through the whole organization

May 12, 2021
Journal Article, Special Issue

In many cases, corruption within organizations occurs in phase transitions, not in consistent patterns. Additionally, even though the initiator proposes corruption to the receiver, the receiver’s acceptance further reinforces the initiator’s corruptive intentions.

By: Jegoo Lee

What Should Business Schools Do To Support Earth Stewardship?

May 6, 2021
Journal Article, Special Issue

Given that business drives much of this activity, how should business schools respond to these challenges? What would business and management schools do if they understood and accepted Earth system science findings on how global economic activities are degrading the resilience of the biosphere?

By: Mark G. Edwards, Jose M. Alcaraz, Sarah E. Cornell

Why Management Theories Need the Natural Sciences for Transformational Change

April 28, 2021
Journal Article, Special Issue

Sustainability challenges demand radical new approaches that are multi-disciplinary, even trans-disciplinary. Paying attention to one sector, or even one body of literature, will likely be ineffective in bringing about the transformations that are needed to bring humankind into alignment with nature’s realities in sustainable ways.

By: David Wasieleski, Sandra Waddock, Tim Fort, & Nuno Guimaraes-Da Costa

Stakeholder Engagement: Toward an Understanding of Stakeholders’ Participation, Inclusion, and Democracy in Organizational Activities

April 21, 2021
Journal Article, Special Issue

As part of a Business and Society Special Issue Call for Papers, we invite submissions that seek to shed light on facets and dimensions of stakeholder engagement. But what is stakeholder engagement, and why is it relevant? We shed light on these issues so as to pave a way for potential submissions to this topical special issue.

By: Matthias Wenzel, Hannah Trittin-Ulbrich, Laura Marie Edinger-Schons, Itziar Castelló, & Frank de Bakker

Cross-Sector Partnerships as Capitalism’s new Development Agents: Reconceiving Impact as Empowerment

December 2, 2020
Journal Article, Special Issue

We particularly call attention to how the focus on ‘outcome’ has overshadowed the lack of research into local ‘impact’.

By: Anne Vestergaard, Luisa Murphy, Mette Morsing, & Thilde Langevang

Is Corporate Social Responsibility bound to fail?

November 25, 2020
Journal Article, Special Issue

In order to explore whether CSR is indeed bound to fail, I explore the most common criticisms of CSR: that CSR works as an expansion of corporate power, propagates a “business ontology” according to which market mechanisms are strictly preferably over alternative modes of societal coordination, and is most often used as a means to veil essentially problematic business activities.

By: Anselm Schneider

The Elephant in the Room: The Nascent Research Agenda on Corporations, Social Responsibility and Capitalism

November 18, 2020
Journal Article, Special Issue

Reconsidering the socio-economic context of capitalism and developing a more nuanced understanding of CSR in the contemporary neoliberal political economy.

By: Frank de Bakker, Dirk Matten, Laura Spence & Christopher Wickert

Conversations with the Editors: Special Issue on “Conceptualizing, Theorizing, and Measuring the Contributions of Business to Refugee Crises”

November 2, 2020
Journal Article, Special Issue

How refugee crises impact the relationship between business and society and what can businesses do in addressing these crises.

By: Sarah Stephen, Alexander Newman, Harry Van Buren III, Charlotte Karam, Colin Higgins

Liberation theology might disentangle the corporate-sectarian collusion

September 9, 2020
Journal Article, Special Issue

The paper explores whether business school curriculum can be modified to respond to this crisis of democracy.

By: Prabhir Vishnu Poruthiyil

Should we pay attention to religiosity in the corporate space?

August 18, 2020
Journal Article, Special Issue

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.

By: Franklin Nakpodia, Philip Shrives, & Karim Sorour

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