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Religions have a central yet underexplored impact on business & society

August 18, 2020
Journal Article, Special Issue

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.

By: Ali Aslan Gümüsay

Religion as a Macro Social Force Affecting Business: Concepts, Questions, and Future Research

July 14, 2020
Journal Article, Special Issue

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.

By: Harry Van Buren, Jawad Syed, & Raza Mir

Stakeholder Theory Just Keeps Getting More and More Important

March 30, 2020
Journal Article, Special Issue

There is a lot more work to be done in refining what stakeholder theory is, what it does, and what it doesn’t do. They are also evidence of the increasing importance of the stakeholder approach to management – firms that don’t get on board now are going to be left behind.

By: Jay Barney & Jeff Harrison

The powerful and the weak: balancing stakeholder interests in organizations

March 19, 2020
Journal Article, Special Issue

When managers fail to successfully consider the interests of all stakeholders, for example, in the event of corporate misconduct, they are often portrayed as the key culprits. We argue, however, that powerful stakeholders are also in part responsible when companies harm weaker stakeholders and society.

By: Flore Bridoux & Pushpika Vishwanathan

Pressure or commitment – What is driving companies to take environmental efforts to the next level?

March 9, 2020
Journal Article, Special Issue

This research considers how manufacturing companies in the United Kingdom respond to competitive pressures to address environmental concerns and what role this particular pressure source plays in determining their level of response. The research then considers the role played by internal company commitment towards addressing environmental concerns in determining the level of response.

By: Stephanie Graham

Prioritising new wealth creation over wealth transfer

February 27, 2020
Journal Article, Special Issue

We seek to better explain the mechanisms that control the unaccountable transfer of wealth, through a re-imagination of the accounting concepts of capital maintenance—which references “the amount [of capital] an individual [or firm] can consume and expect to be as well off at the end of the [period] as at the beginning”—and profit.

Stakeholder Theory Unleashed

February 17, 2020
Journal Article, Special Issue

In 2015, a group of influential strategic management scholars convened a workshop in Utah to discuss and debate stakeholder theory. One outcome of this meeting was a list of supposed tensions emerging from that group’s understanding of stakeholder theory and its relationship to mainstream strategic management. Our piece is a reaction to this list of tensions.