Cross-Sector Partnerships as Capitalism’s new Development Agents: Reconceiving Impact as Empowerment
We particularly call attention to how the focus on ‘outcome’ has overshadowed the lack of research into local ‘impact’.
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Is Corporate Social Responsibility bound to fail?
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.
The Elephant in the Room: The Nascent Research Agenda on Corporations, Social Responsibility and Capitalism
Reconsidering the socio-economic context of capitalism and developing a more nuanced understanding of CSR in the contemporary neoliberal political economy.
Conversations with the Editors: Special Issue on “Conceptualizing, Theorizing, and Measuring the Contributions of Business to Refugee Crises”
How refugee crises impact the relationship between business and society and what can businesses do in addressing these crises.
Liberation theology might disentangle the corporate-sectarian collusion
The paper explores whether business school curriculum can be modified to respond to this crisis of democracy.
Should we pay attention to religiosity in the corporate space?
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.
Religions have a central yet underexplored impact on business & society
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.
Religion as a Macro Social Force Affecting Business: Concepts, Questions, and Future Research
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.
Stakeholder Theory Just Keeps Getting More and More Important
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.
