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