While CEOs may be inclined to speak on important societal issues, the strategic consequences of their statements are not always clear cut.
- By: François Neville
Journal Articles
An upcoming special issue in B&S considers how questions relating to statehood and governance are central to our understanding of how non-state actors, such as business and NGOs, operate in the global South.
- By: Sameer Azizi, Tanja Börzel, & Hans Krause Hansen
The article examines issues associated with the governance of artisanal and small-scale mining in a designated indigenous region in northeastern India. It demonstrates how the mechanisms of the state progressively exert deeper influence in the activity, sidelining indigenous, community institutions.
- By: Jacob Vakkayil
The authors reflect on their paper “Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Asia: A Seven Country Study of CSR Web Site Reporting” - on what they knew then, what they know now, and how much things have evolved.
- By: Wendy Chapple & Jeremy Moon
Our study argues that globalization has led companies to disregard their long-term impacts while becoming disconnected from place. Such views of time and place have resulted in a narrow and simplistic approach to sustainability, and we call on companies to rethink their sense of time and sense of place in order to strengthen their sustainability efforts.
- By: Daina Mazutis, Natalie Slawinski, & Guido Palazzo
As a result of neoliberal imperatives, the corporate social responsibility practices of corporations in the Nigerian oil sector are not effective
- By: Uchechukwu Nwoke
Firms pay more for investment capital if they are headquartered in U.S. states with higher levels of political corruption. The increase in cost is higher for firms that have poorer internal governance, or less external monitoring by institutional investors or providers of debt.
- By: Ashrafee Tanvir Hossain & Lawrence Kryzanowski
Companies’ boards of directors directly influence the social and environmental policies pursued by the corporate world, which plays a major role in the quality of life of everyone in society. Boards with more directors on them, which include more independent directors and more women, and who appoint a CSR board committee, are more likely to pursue socially and environmentally friendly practices.
- By: Jan Endrikat, Charl De Villiers, Thomas Guenther, & Edeltraud Guenther
Our research analyzed the impact of the adoption of Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) guidelines in sustainability reporting on Chinese firms’ profitability and the factors affecting this relationship.
- By: Yang Yang, Guido Orzes, Fu Jia, & Lujie Chen
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.
- By: Lama Arda & Bobby Banerjee
By using a socioecological systems perspective, I explain how firms manage natural resource scarcity. It drives firms value that natural environment to become more sustainable, and those that see the natural environment as a tool for economic gain to become more exploitative.
- By: Pete Tashman
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.
- By: Marta Rey-Garcia, Vanessa Mato-Santiso, & Ana Felgueiras
