Journal Articles

The why and how of evaluating cross-sector partnerships for sustainability

With a growing number of cross-sector partnerships between companies and nonprofit organizations (NPOs), such partnerships increasingly need to be evaluated to inform managerial decisions and document success. We show how firms formalize their evaluation practices – sometimes together with their NPO partners.
  • By: Sylvia Feilhauer & Rüdiger Hahn

Can Entrepreneurship Blunt the Inequality-Growth Curse?

We found that as income inequality increases, easing regulations that impede new business start-ups and facilitating access to credit from the financial sector, is positively associated with per capita economic growth.
  • By: Pankaj Patel, Jonathan Doh, & Sutirtha Bagchi

What Should Business Schools Do To Support Earth Stewardship?

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

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

Understanding the influence of different institutional environments on social entrepreneurship

This foundational article, and the subsequent work that has cited this study, shows that not only do levels of development and economic metrics like GDP vary across countries, but legal systems also differ, as do cultural norms, industrial histories, and the types of economic activities that dominate. This variability thus leads to a range of different social, environmental or economic issues in each country.
  • By: Diane Holt & David Littlewood

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

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

How financial crises affect the reputation of banks

Banks’ reputation during a financial crisis depends not only on financial, but also non-financial features. Therefore, a winning strategy to protect organizational reputation during a financial crisis should include both the financial and non-financial features.
  • By: Mario R. Englert, Christopher Koch, Jens Wüstemann

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