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COVID-19 and Management Scholarship: Lessons for Conducting Impactful Research Business & Society (IF 6.74) Pub Date : 2024-03-09 Gerard George, Gokhan Ertug, Hari Bapuji, Jonathan P. Doh, Johanna Mair, Ajnesh Prasad
The COVID-19 pandemic provided an opportunity for management scholars to address large-scale and complex societal problems and strive for greater practical and policy impact. A brief overview of the most-cited work on COVID-19 reveals that, compared with their counterparts in other disciplines, leading management journals and professional associations lagged in providing a platform for high-impact
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Unveiling the Black Box in Retail Firms’ Supply Chain Labor Standards Performance: A Theory of Supply Chain Labor Compliance Integration Business & Society (IF 6.74) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Mevan Jayasinghe, Yinyin Cao
Prior work shows limited success in retail firms’ efforts to create socially responsible supply chains by enforcing suppliers’ compliance with labor standards, partly due to conflicting sourcing demands exerted on the supplier by siloed functional units within the retail firm. To ensure the substantive adoption of labor standards throughout its supply chain, we argue that the retail firm must improve
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Exploring Public Health Research for Corporate Health Policy: Insights for Business and Society Scholars Business & Society (IF 6.74) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Lilia Raquel Rojas-Cruz, Irene Henriques, Bryan W. Husted
Despite the growing interest in societal impact in the business and society literature, there remains a notable gap in research on the impact of health interventions on physical and mental health and social welfare. To address this gap, we shift the unit of analysis to the intervention, akin to the level of analysis used in health research. Drawing on a curated subset of health interventions in the
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Antiretroviral Therapy Coverage, Entrepreneurship, and Development in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Business & Society (IF 6.74) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Cornelius A. Rietveld, Pankaj C. Patel
Improvements in the health capital of citizens are central to the development of countries. By exploiting steep decreases in antiretroviral drug prices and the subsequent increases in antiretroviral therapy (ART) coverage, we test whether the resulting improvements in the health of the population are associated with the prevalence of entrepreneurial activity and whether entrepreneurial activity strengthens
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Expectations Meet Reality: Leader Sensemaking and Enactment of Stakeholder Engagement in Multistakeholder Social Enterprises Business & Society (IF 6.74) Pub Date : 2024-01-27 Nevena Radoynovska
Given the urgency of global crises, interest abounds in alternative organizational forms (e.g., multistakeholder social enterprises, MSEs), promising structural solutions to engage diverse stakeholders in the creation of joint social, economic, and democratic values. Yet, studies of the who, how, and why of stakeholder engagement are predominantly rooted in for-profit contexts, assuming objective boundaries
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Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Outcomes and Municipal Credit Risk Business & Society (IF 6.74) Pub Date : 2024-01-27 Christopher C. Bruno, Witold J. Henisz
We investigate the association between a wide range of community-level environmental, social, and governance (ESG) outcomes and the credit risk of U.S. municipal finance fixed-income securities. We develop a novel dataset of multiple ESG outcomes for U.S. counties and connect it to a 2001-2020 panel of municipal bonds issued within those counties. Overall, we find supportive evidence that collective
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Time Theft: Exposing a Subtle Yet Serious Driver of Socioeconomic Inequality Business & Society (IF 6.74) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Jason R. Pierce, Laura M. Giurge, Brad Aeon
Socioeconomic inequality is perpetuated and exacerbated by an overlooked yet serious epidemic of time theft: the act of causing others to lose their time without adequate cause, compensation, or consent. We explain why time theft goes unnoticed, how it drives socioeconomic inequality, and what businesses and policymakers can do to address it.
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Social-Market Hybridity in Social Ventures: Scale Development and Validation Business & Society (IF 6.74) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Jiawei Sophia Fu
Growing research suggests social ventures (SVs) variably combine social and profit orientations in core organizational features, and this variation in hybridity leads to divergent organizational dy...
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Navigating Disruptive Times: How Cross-Sector Partnerships in a Development Context Built Resilience During the COVID-19 Pandemic Outbreak Business & Society (IF 6.74) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Leona A. Henry
This article explores how cross-sector partnerships (CSPs) operating in a development context built resilience during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on a qualitative analysis of eight...
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Institutional Hegemony of a Logic Within a Cross-Sector Partnership Business & Society (IF 6.74) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Barbara Harsman
Although some scholars propagate cross-sector partnerships (CSPs) as a panacea for addressing the grand challenges of the 21st century, scholars also acknowledge that this type of collaboration fac...
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Political CSR and Populism: Toward an Information-Based Theory of Political CSR Business & Society (IF 6.74) Pub Date : 2023-05-01 Zena Al-Esia, Andrew Crane, Kostas Iatridis
Extant research on political corporate social responsibility (PCSR) has not yet addressed how the populist turn impacts PCSR theory and practice. This conceptual article analyzes how populism influ...
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Do They Mind the Gap? The Role of Founders in Organizational Pay Dispersion Business & Society (IF 6.74) Pub Date : 2023-04-15 Myrto Chliova, Gabriella Cacciotti, Teemu Kautonen
This study adds to the emergent stream of work examining the micro-level antecedents of pay dispersion by focusing on how business founders’ personal characteristics influence pay dispersion in the...
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Public Health and Political Corporate Social Responsibility: Pharmaceutical Company Engagement in COVAX Business & Society (IF 6.74) Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Markus Scholz, N. Craig Smith, Maria Riegler, Anna Burton
Pharmaceutical companies developed Covid-19 vaccines in record time. However, it soon became apparent that global access to the vaccines was inequitable. Through a qualitative inquiry as the pandem...
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A Responsibility to Whom? Populism and Its Effects on Corporate Social Responsibility Business & Society (IF 6.74) Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Christopher A. Hartwell, Timothy M. Devinney
Although populism is an ideologically fluid political vehicle, it is not one that is intrinsically anti-business. Indeed, different varieties of populist parties may encourage business activity for...
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Does Multimarket Contact Dampen Corporate Philanthropy? A Study on the Geographic Allocation of Corporate Philanthropy Business & Society (IF 6.74) Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Xianyi Long, Xinming Deng, Douglas A. Schuler
While previous studies have discussed how much should be given by firms, less is known about how firms would spend these investments, such as strategically allocating these philanthropy activities ...
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Inequality and Entrepreneurial Agency: How Social Class Origins Affect Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy Business & Society (IF 6.74) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Leif Brändle, Andreas Kuckertz
Entrepreneurial agency—the individual power to change environments—is central to entrepreneurship research. Yet, from a social inequality perspective, beliefs in an entrepreneurial agency might dif...
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Efficient, Explicatory, and Equitable: Why Qualitative Researchers Should Embrace AI, but Cautiously Business & Society (IF 6.74) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Shafiullah Anis, Juliana A. French
Qualitative researchers, particularly those researching business and society topics, should embrace artificial intelligence (AI) to conduct efficient, explicatory, and equitable research but also e...
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How Not to Turn the Grand Challenges Literature Into a Tower of Babel? Business & Society (IF 6.74) Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Guillaume Carton, Julia Parigot, Thomas Roulet
The Grand Challenges literature brings under its umbrella a wide variety of disjointed phenomena but runs the risk of reinventing the wheel as well as overlooking incremental progress and past work...
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The Effect of Country Economic Institutions and Cultural Values on Government Policy and Societal Compliance in the Covid-19 Pandemic Business & Society (IF 6.74) Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Carolina Gomez, Jennifer Spencer
Using data from 88 countries, we test hypotheses linking a country’s economic freedom and cultural values with the propensity and timing of decisions to impose stringent policies to combat the spre...
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Who Do I Want to Be Now That I’m Here? Refugee Entrepreneurs, Identity, and Acculturation Business & Society (IF 6.74) Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Lisa Jones Christensen, Arielle Newman
This article focuses on a subset of refugees who engage in entrepreneurship shortly after relocating to a new host community; it explores identity-related antecedents and integration consequences o...
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Corporate Governance and Corporate Political Responsibility Business & Society (IF 6.74) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Hesham Ali, Emmanuel Adegbite, Tam Huy Nguyen
This study investigates the pivotal policy question of whether a firm’s corporate governance influences its political spending disclosures. Using a sample of S&P 500 firms from 2011 to 2019, we fin...
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Value Creation for Refugees by Social Partnerships: A Frames Perspective Business & Society (IF 6.74) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Özgü Karakulak, Moira V. Faul
Refugee crises are one of the grand challenges of the 21st century. Despite the theoretical importance attached to value created for beneficiaries in the partnership literature, research tends to f...
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Collaborative Consumers Can Be Ethical Consumers: Adapting the Defining Issues Test to Understand Ethical Reasoning in Collaborative Consumption Markets Business & Society (IF 6.74) Pub Date : 2023-03-06 Sebastian Müller, Nils Christian Hoffmann, Ludger Heidbrink, Stefan Hoffmann
Collaborative consumption activities like saving food and buying used clothes are an important and rapidly growing part of sustainable consumer behavior. Many political and commercial campaigns pro...
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Defining Value in Sustainable Business Models Business & Society (IF 6.74) Pub Date : 2023-02-03 Cristina Neesham, Krzysztof Dembek, Julia Benkert
Although the concept of value is central to sustainable business models (SBMs), the field has struggled to clarify what value is. SBM research accounts for multiple forms of value directed at multi...
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Working For Impact, But Failing to Experience It: Exploring Individuals’ Sensemaking in Social Enterprises Business & Society (IF 6.74) Pub Date : 2023-01-21 Andreana Drencheva, Wee Chan Au, Jian Li Yew
Individuals start and join social enterprises to catalyze social impact but may not subjectively experience their work as impactful. In this article, we inductively uncover when social enterprise m...
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Standing on the Shoulders of Goffman: Advancing a Relational Research Agenda on Stigma Business & Society (IF 6.74) Pub Date : 2023-01-12 Ana M. Aranda, Wesley S. Helms, Karen D. W. Patterson, Thomas J. Roulet, Bryant Ashley Hudson
Drawing from Goffman’s original observations on stigma and the consequences of interactions between the stigmatized and supportive or stigmatizing audiences, we conduct a 20-year review of the dive...
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Tolls, Schools, and Tips: The Reproduction of Social Inequality Through Day-to-Day Practices Business & Society (IF 6.74) Pub Date : 2023-01-10 Ajnesh Prasad, Paulina Segarra
How is social inequality reproduced through day-to-day practices? In this commentary, we use the geographical context of Mexico City to argue that social inequality is maintained by “class work” of...
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From Nirvana to Shiva in Impact Investing: Value (In)congruence in Investor–Investee Relationships Business & Society (IF 6.74) Pub Date : 2022-12-28 Joanna Vogeley, Debbie Haski-Leventhal, Erik Lundmark
In the rapidly emerging field of impact investing, investors and investees collaborate to generate financial returns while addressing social and environmental challenges. This article conceptualize...
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Grand Challenges and Female Leaders: An Exploration of Relational Leadership During the COVID-19 Pandemic Business & Society (IF 6.74) Pub Date : 2022-12-10 Abbie Griffith Oliver, Michael D. Pfarrer, François Neville
Managing grand challenges demands a relational leader who encourages collaboration, coordination, and trust with various stakeholders. Although leaders appear to play a critical role in addressing ...
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Everyday Talk on Twitter: Informal Deliberation About (Ir-)responsible Business Conduct in Social Media Arenas Business & Society (IF 6.74) Pub Date : 2022-12-09 Daniel Lundgaard, Michael Etter
Recent research has damped initial promises for democratic deliberation in social media arenas. Empirical studies find only low degrees of direct reciprocal interaction among participants, a lack o...
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Strengthening or Restricting? Explaining the Covid-19 Pandemic’s Configurational Effects on Companies’ Sustainability Strategies and Practices Business & Society (IF 6.74) Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Ralph Hamann, Alecia Sewlal, Neeveditah Pariag-Maraye, Judy Muthuri, Kenneth Amaeshi, Ijeoma Nwagwu, Jenny Soderbergh
We explore the Covid-19 pandemic’s impact on companies’ sustainability strategies and practices. Prior research has identified a number of factors that shape such effects, including crisis severity...
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The Instrumentalization of CSR by Rent-Seeking Governments: Lessons From Tanzania Business & Society (IF 6.74) Pub Date : 2022-11-07 Eva Nilsson
This article examines how corporate social responsibility (CSR) can serve as an external source of rents for governments that depend on foreign financing for state-building and development. The str...
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As Clear as Black and White: Racially Disparate Concerns Over Career Progression for Remote Workers Across Racial Faultlines Business & Society (IF 6.74) Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Daniel G. Bachrach, Pankaj C. Patel, Felicia Pratto
With increasing complexity in the evolving structure of work in organizations, employees’ preferences for working from home (WFH) relative to working on-site can lead to systematic differences in p...
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New Perspectives on Base of the Pyramid Strategies Business & Society (IF 6.74) Pub Date : 2022-10-14 Nikolay A. Dentchev, Laura Michelini, Alain Verbeke, Jeremy Hall, Jenny Hillemann
The early literature on base of the pyramid (BOP) strategies argued that multinational enterprises can contribute significantly to poverty alleviation of the poorest population in the world. An eme...
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Bribe Payments and State Ownership: The Impact of State Ownership on Bribery Propensity and Intensity Business & Society (IF 6.74) Pub Date : 2022-09-20 Jingtao Yi, Liang Chen, Shuang Meng, Sali Li, Noman Shaheer
This study examines the degree of state ownership on corporate bribery. Integrating the theories of state ownership and corporate corruption, we propose that state ownership influences bribery prop...
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Coordinated Enactment: How Organizational Departments Work Together to Implement CSR Business & Society (IF 6.74) Pub Date : 2022-09-12 David Risi, Christopher Wickert, Tommaso Ramus
Research on the implementation of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has revealed the critical role of CSR departments vis-à-vis functional departments. While both CSR and functional departments...
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Advancing a Contextualized, Community-Centric Understanding of Social Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Business & Society (IF 6.74) Pub Date : 2022-09-06 Anne de Bruin, Michael J. Roy, Suzanne Grant, Kate V. Lewis
We investigate what distinguishes social entrepreneurial ecosystems (SEEs) from entrepreneurial ecosystems (EEs) through appreciation of the importance of context—the multiplex of intertwined socia...
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Why Social Enterprises Resist or Collectively Improve Impact Assessment: The Role of Prior Organizational Experience and “Impact Lock-In” Business & Society (IF 6.74) Pub Date : 2022-08-26 Jarrod Ormiston
This article examines how organizational experience influences social enterprise responses to impact assessment practices. Limited attention has been paid to why organizations resist or challenge i...
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Implications of Overwhelmed Leadership: How Executive Job Demands Hinder Corporate Sustainability Performance Business & Society (IF 6.74) Pub Date : 2022-08-25 Manish Popli, Mehul Raithatha
As implied by executive job demands theory, intensified job demands of a firm’s top executives limit their cognitive capacity and centralize the locus of decision-making, which may undermine corpor...
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The Influence of Ethical Beliefs and Attitudes, Norms, and Prior Outcomes on Cybersecurity Investment Decisions Business & Society (IF 6.74) Pub Date : 2022-08-23 Gary M. Fleischman, Sean R. Valentine, Mary B. Curtis, Partha S. Mohapatra
Recent data breaches underscore the importance of organizational cybersecurity. However, the high costs of such security can force chief financial officers (CFOs) to make difficult financial and et...
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The Influence of Strategic Disclosure on Corporate Climate Performance Ratings Business & Society (IF 6.74) Pub Date : 2022-08-08 Patrick J. Callery
In response to demand from investors and other stakeholders, companies have increased voluntary disclosure of climate change-related policies and performance. Information intermediaries have corres...
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From the Substantive to the Ceremonial: Exploring Interrelations Between Recognition and Aspirational CSR Talk Business & Society (IF 6.74) Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Hannah Trittin-Ulbrich
Stakeholder recognition constitutes a firm’s experience of affirmation and acknowledgment from stakeholders and is deemed essential for organizations to develop positive self-relations and a sense ...
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Strengthening Deliberation in Business: Learning From Aristotle’s Ethics of Deliberation Business & Society (IF 6.74) Pub Date : 2022-07-31 Sandrine Frémeaux, Christian Voegtlin
Deliberation has faced criticism with regard to its application to business, on the basis that it can be misused to disseminate an ideology, divert attention from genuine debates, or strengthen the power of certain people. We suggest that Aristotle’s notion of deliberation can mitigate these ethical risks and help companies strengthen their deliberative practices. A comprehensive perspective based
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When the Right Thing to Do Is Also the Wrong Thing: Moral Sensemaking of Responsible Business Behavior During the COVID-19 Crisis Business & Society (IF 6.74) Pub Date : 2022-07-31 Heidi Reed
This study examines how individual members of the public make moral sense of the potentially conflicting “economic problem” or “public health problem” representations of the COVID-19 crisis when ju...
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Employees’ Perspectives on the Costs and Benefits of Organizations’ Environmental Initiatives Business & Society (IF 6.74) Pub Date : 2022-07-30 Stuart Allen
Employee participation is essential to organizations’ corporate social responsibility (CSR)-related environmental initiatives (EIs). Employees’ attitudes to participating in pro-environmental behaviors are addressed in workplace literature drawing upon the theory of planned behavior. However, antecedents to employees’ attitude formation, including perceptions of the costs and benefits of participating
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Business and the Climate Crisis: Toward Engagement With Climate Assemblies Business & Society (IF 6.74) Pub Date : 2022-07-29 Simon Pek
Businesses and business scholars interested in tackling climate change can benefit by engaging with the innovative but nascent movement of climate assemblies. I articulate three promising ways they can meaningfully engage with this movement.
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Enacting a Grand Challenge for Business and Society: Theorizing Issue Maturation in the Media-Based Public Discourse on COVID-19 in Three National Contexts Business & Society (IF 6.74) Pub Date : 2022-07-28 Bennet Schwoon, Dennis Schoeneborn, Andreas Georg Scherer
While today it is universally acknowledged that COVID-19 has generated immense challenges for businesses and societies worldwide, public perceptions varied significantly at the time of the pandemic’s initial appearance, even among democratic societies with comparable media systems. The growing scholarship on grand societal challenges in management and organization studies, however, tends to neglect
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Making Impact Investing More Than Just Well-Meaning Capital Business & Society (IF 6.74) Pub Date : 2022-07-25 Francesca Casalini, Veronica Vecchi
Impact investing is progressively losing focus in ensuring investments really do make a difference; therefore, the growth of the market may not make real social and environmental change. We propose three ways to put the “impact” back into the heart of impact investment.
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Multistakeholder Benefits: A Meta-Analysis of Different Theories Business & Society (IF 6.74) Pub Date : 2022-07-14 Victor Zitian Chen, Meng Zhong, Patricio Duran, Steve Sauerwald
We predict multistakeholder benefits as a measure of organizational performance from the perspective of important organizational stakeholders. Specifically, we identify the relative importance of theoretical antecedents that affect the different dimensions of stakeholder benefits. Offering the first empirical synthesis of multistakeholder benefits to date, we assess the statistical explanatory power
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A Processual Model of CEO Activism: Activities, Frames, and Phases Business & Society (IF 6.74) Pub Date : 2022-07-14 Laura Olkkonen, Mette Morsing
Chief executive officers (CEOs) engage in activism when they take public stances on sensitive socio-political issues. In this study, we address the less-explored activities that constitute CEO activism beyond single stances as the activism is maintained over time. The data cover 6 years of campaign and media materials from a case company with several CEO-initiated activist campaigns. Our findings from
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#Activism: Investor Reactions to Corporate Sociopolitical Activism Business & Society (IF 6.74) Pub Date : 2022-07-14 Simbarashe Pasirayi, Patrick B. Fennell, Kayla B. Follmer
Corporations, which in the past have been hesitant to contribute to conversations regarding political and social issues, are increasingly speaking out on current issues such as race, sexual orientation, gender, immigration, and environmental issues. Despite this trend, limited academic research has focused on how corporate sociopolitical activism (CSA) efforts impact firm value. In addition, extant
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An Integrative Literature Review of Social Entrepreneurship Research: Mapping the Literature and Future Research Directions Business & Society (IF 6.74) Pub Date : 2022-06-20 Anton Klarin, Yuliani Suseno
This article maps existing research from 5,874 scholarly publications on social entrepreneurship (SE) utilizing scientometrics. The mapping indicates a taxonomy of five clusters: (a) the nature of SE, (b) policy implications and employment in relation to SE, (c) SE in communities and health, (d) SE personality traits, and (e) SE education. We complement the scientometric analysis with a systematic
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From Reactionary to Revelatory: CSR Reporting in Response to the Global Refugee Crisis Business & Society (IF 6.74) Pub Date : 2022-06-20 Katherine R. Cooper, Rong Wang
Refugee concerns may be perceived as controversial or outside the business domain, yet some corporations publicly engage these issues in corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives. This article relies on institutional and constitutive approaches to CSR to explore why organizations might declare their engagement in refugee issues, and utilizes decoupling to explore the relationship between reported
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The Irrationality of Rationality in Market Economics: A Paradox of Incentives Perspective Business & Society (IF 6.74) Pub Date : 2022-06-10 Jagannadha Pawan Tamvada, Rashedur Chowdhury
Current incentive structures are more favorably aligned with the world’s problems than with their solutions. We conceptualize this as the paradox of incentives to argue the need for new thinking and restructuring of incentives to break the paradox during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond, and create new opportunities for societal transformation.
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Mission Accomplished? Reflecting on 60 Years of Business & Society Business & Society (IF 6.74) Pub Date : 2022-06-03 Stephen Brammer, Layla Branicki, Martina Linnenluecke
Business & Society’s 60th anniversary affords an opportunity to reflect on the journal’s achievements in the context of the wider field. We analyze editorial commentaries to map the evolving mission of the journal, assess the achievement of the journal’s mission through a thematic analysis of published articles, and examine Business & Society’s distinctiveness relative to peer journals using a machine
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Moral CSR Business & Society (IF 6.74) Pub Date : 2022-05-18 Barry M. Mitnick, Duane Windsor, Donna J. Wood
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is about the moral purpose of business and its proper relationship to society. We map the logical structure of CSR—its canonical core—and identify the view of CSR that is most consistent with CSR as driven by moral purpose as Moral CSR (CSRM). The numerous perspectives of CSR, which we term CSR memes, are complements to CSRM. A meme is an idea or usage diffusing
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Sociological Structures and Accounting Misbehavior: An Institutional Anomie Theory Explanation of Restatements in Family Firms Business & Society (IF 6.74) Pub Date : 2022-05-16 Elisabetta Mafrolla, Felice Matozza, Eugenio D’Amico
This article studies the underinvestigated but fascinating issue of the sociological determinants of accounting misbehavior while focusing on an allegedly illicit accounting practice (i.e., restatement) in family- vs. nonfamily-controlled corporations. Under the framework of institutional anomie theory, we examined whether sociological structures (i.e., legal forces and cultural values) influence accounting
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Building on Its Past: The Future of Business and Society Scholarship Business & Society (IF 6.74) Pub Date : 2022-05-16 Jill A. Brown, Frank G. A. de Bakker, Hari Bapuji, Colin Higgins, Kathleen Rehbein, Andrew Spicer
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
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The Evolving Political Marketplace: Revisiting 60 Years of Theoretical Dominance Through a Review of Corporate Political Activity Scholarship in Business & Society and Major Management Journals Business & Society (IF 6.74) Pub Date : 2022-05-10 Stefanie Lenway, Douglas Schuler, Richard Marens, Timothy Werner, Colby Green
We review articles about corporate political activity (CPA) published in Business & Society since its beginnings 60 years ago and in a set of other leading management journals over the past decade. We present evidence that most studies of CPA use the political markets’ perspective. Under the premise that the contemporary political environment has changed significantly since the inception of the political
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Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Leveraging Management Research on Grand Challenges Business & Society (IF 6.74) Pub Date : 2022-05-10 Silvia Dorado, Nino Antadze, Jill Purdy, Oana Branzei
We advance research on how businesses engage with the complex social problems currently known as Grand Challenges. We study the concepts that preceded the term Grand Challenges, the connected ontologies that ground them, and the diversity of perspectives they offered. We construct a knowledge map that includes well-researched obstacles, such as governance obstacles hindering engagement and sensemaking