Journal Articles

The Revolving Doors of Washington and the Sliding Doors of Brussels

May 5, 2020
Journal Article

Our paper opens up the “black box” of the government affairs practices conducted by companies in Brussels and draws a comparison between the practices there and those in Washington D.C. We find that, although companies in both sites use similar resources, the daily management practices vary a lot.

By: David Coen & Matia Vannoni

How did corporations spread CSR from the U.S. to the rest of the world?

April 28, 2020
Journal Article

Why do firms adopt Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practices? How does CSR spread across the globe?

By: Rami Kaplan & Daniel Kinderman

Are corporate saints more credible?

April 22, 2020
Journal Article

If companies make economic and social reasons for their sustainable investments known, they run the risk of their legitimacy being called into question. Our study shows that when individuals assume that a company’s sustainable investments are strategically motivated and driven by economic interests, they will assess companies’ credibility and legitimacy negatively.

By: Rolf Brühl, Johannes Jahn, & Melanie Eichhorn

Investors and CEOs be aware! A firm’s true value can be communicated to the market in a multitude of ways

April 14, 2020
Journal Article

The market rewards firms that engage in political activity, with significantly better performance on the day of their IPO

By: Bruce Rudy & Jason Cavich

Scandals as catalysers for activism

April 7, 2020
Journal Article

We conceptualise how scandals act as turning points, enabling forms of contestation that would not be otherwise possible.

By: Thibault Daudigeos, Thomas Roulet, & Bertrand Valiorgue

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.

Corporate social responsibility: How to create the conditions of responsible decision making processes

February 6, 2020
Journal Article, Special Issue

I highlight the constitutive dimension of communication and its implications for CSR matters.

Making managerial CSR visions matter – From aspirations to agonism

January 27, 2020
Journal Article, Special Issue

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