This Special Issue commemorates the 60th anniversary of Business & Society with nine rigorous literature reviews that address important societal problems and provide opportunities for theory development in the business and society field; in this introduction we present an overview of the Special Issue. With the theme “Building on Its Past,” the nine articles address a host of contemporary issues, including climate change, wicked problems, business and human rights, human health, certifications standards, the governance of artificial intelligence, stakeholder engagement, stakeholder theory, and corporate political activity. Together, these reviews offer a wealth of suggested themes, theories and approaches that can drive our research forward for the next decades in business and society research and practice. Using the lens of a miner-prospector continuum to categorize the diversity of articles within this special issue, a common theme emerges across the portfolio of reviews: they all call for a more systemic and integrative perspective toward studying the complex interactions that link business and society actors and issues. Building on these findings, we encourage future scholars to fill long-standing researched gaps through a more open systems approach, which supports both contextually sensitive and multi-level and multi-disciplinary approaches to address grand societal challenges. We conclude with specific suggestions as to how business and society scholars might use an open systems approach, including embracing methodologies to address complex causal pathways, theorizing with a view towards spanning external and internal elements of an organization, and reflecting on the temporal and spatial dynamics of complex systems.

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以过去为基础：商业和社会奖学金的未来

本期特刊以九篇严谨的文献综述来纪念商业与社会 60 周年，这些文献综述解决了重要的社会问题，并为商业和社会领域的理论发展提供了机会；在本简介中，我们将概述特刊。九篇文章以“立足过去”为主题，讨论了一系列当代问题，包括气候变化、邪恶问题、商业和人权、人类健康、认证标准、人工智能治理、利益相关者参与、利益相关者理论、和企业政治活动。这些评论共同提供了丰富的建议主题、理论和方法，可以推动我们在未来几十年的商业和社会研究与实践中的研究向前发展。使用矿工-勘探者连续体的镜头对本期特刊中文章的多样性进行分类，评论组合中出现了一个共同主题：它们都要求以更加系统和综合的视角来研究连接商业和社会的复杂互动演员和问题。在这些发现的基础上，我们鼓励未来的学者通过更开放的系统方法来填补长期存在的研究空白，该方法支持上下文敏感、多层次和多学科的方法来应对重大的社会挑战。最后，我们就商业和社会学者如何使用开放系统方法提出具体建议，包括采用方法论来解决复杂的因果路径，