Journal Articles

Does Corporate Responsibility Deliver? Broken Pathways to Business Sustainability

September 23, 2020
Journal Article

We analyzed firms’ corporate responsibility activities against their resulting sustainability performance, and identified three instances of broken pathways.

By: Leena Lankoski & Minna Halme

It is time to unlearn the tried-and-trusted green narrative

September 16, 2020
Journal Article

It is time to unlearn certain boundaries of what sustainability looks like: in a world where the most progressive states actively promote these unproblematized visions of idyllic sustainability, where can our hope be for reconstructing a better future on the basis of actual sustainability challenges?

By: Meri Frig

Liberation theology might disentangle the corporate-sectarian collusion

September 9, 2020
Journal Article, Special Issue

The paper explores whether business school curriculum can be modified to respond to this crisis of democracy.

By: Prabhir Vishnu Poruthiyil

Should we pay attention to religiosity in the corporate space?

August 18, 2020
Journal Article, Special Issue

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.

By: Franklin Nakpodia, Philip Shrives, & Karim Sorour

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

Deceiving the law? Symbolic and substantive corporate responses to Modern Slavery legislation

July 7, 2020
Journal Article

We contend that anti-slavery corporate policies and structures can be ‘symbolic’ responses to slavery without being ‘substantive’ (meaning that such responses symbolize attention to law and legal principles, but do little or nothing to effectuate legal ideas within corporate organizations).

By: David Monciardini, Nadia Bernaz, & Alexandra Andhov

Citizenspeak: How corporations use corporate citizenship to speak as and for the people

June 23, 2020
Journal Article

We investigate how the Australian mining industry convinced the Australian government to drop a proposed tax on the mining industry’s super-profits (that is, an additional company tax after the subtraction of a tax-free allowance).

By: Daniel Nyberg & John Murray

No Panacea: Insider Control of Corporations and Environmental Performance

June 16, 2020
Journal Article

We examine firms with a dual-class share structure where insiders (officers and directors) have voting control over the firm that exceeds their ownership stake. We find that when these insiders have significantly more voting control, their firms demonstrate poorer, rather than better, environmental performance.

By: Paul Seaborn & Tricia Olsen

Regulating charities: snakes or ladders?

June 9, 2020
Journal Article

We examine two charities (a museum and a disability rights organization) that were in breach of this soft regulation; however, we suggest each faced different levels of reputational risk by doing so. We argue that charities are most at risk of being perceived as acting inappropriately when they breach regulations that are aimed at financial propriety.

By: Penny Dick

Values may be the clue to building greener businesses

June 2, 2020
Journal Article

Our paper highlights the key role that values can play in addressing the profoundly urgent, messy and contentious issue of climate change.

By: Sarah Williams, Anja Schaefer, & Richard Blundel

“Is our product healthy or not ?”: How companies navigate changing values and norms

May 19, 2020
Journal Article

ur case study focused on the food industry and how it adapts its products to the changing definition of the value ‘health’. What is considered a "healthy" food product changes over time due to new scientific insights, new consumption habits, and changes in food production and sales.

By: Jilde Garst & Vincent Blok