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From “business as usual” to sustainable “purpose‐driven business”: Challenges facing the purpose ecosystem in the United Kingdom and Australia Business and Society Review Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Fergus Lyon, Wendy Stubbs, Frederik Dahlmann, Melissa Edwards
Purpose‐driven businesses have a stated objective to contribute to the welfare of society and the planet alongside generating shareholder value. As interest in purpose‐driven businesses grows, an emerging “purpose ecosystem” of advisers, investors, and enablers offers different types of support for businesses wanting to transition to sustainability. This paper examines how the transition towards purpose‐driven
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Unleashing virtuous cycles of sustainable development goals and well-being Business and Society Review Pub Date : 2024-02-04 Farley Simon Nobre
This article advances sustainability towards a new logic that favors the flourishing of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and well-being from North to South. It presents a Global Dual-Perspective (GDP) and a Dynamic Equilibrium Framework (DEF) that inform sustainability, management, and international business with a paradoxical view of the SDGs and a strengthened analysis that outlines the role
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What ethics can say on artificial intelligence: Insights from a systematic literature review Business and Society Review Pub Date : 2024-02-04 Francesco Vincenzo Giarmoleo, Ignacio Ferrero, Marta Rocchi, Massimiliano Pellegrini
The abundance of literature on ethical concerns regarding artificial intelligence (AI) highlights the need to systematize, integrate, and categorize existing efforts through a systematic literature review. The article aims to investigate prevalent concerns, proposed solutions, and prominent ethical approaches within the field. Considering 309 articles from the beginning of the publications in this
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Issue Information Business and Society Review Pub Date : 2024-01-29
No abstract is available for this article.
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How many houses should one own?: A subsidiarity and distributist-based critique of real estate investors accumulation of houses Business and Society Review Pub Date : 2024-01-26 Andrew Gustafson
Distributivism holds that private property should be widely distributed among as many as possible and that such a distribution best serves the common good. This paper applies a distributist approach rooted in subsidiarity to the contemporary issue of the unaffordability of single-family homes and the impact of investors buying up more single-family homes, increasing their own wealth at the expense
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Circular subsidiarity: Humanizing work through relational goods Business and Society Review Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Ana Marta González, Germán Scalzo
The Fourth Industrial Revolution based on digitalization, the development of AI, robotics, big data, and increasing automation is dredging up older debates on the end of human work. This article contributes to this debate arguing that these changing circumstances represent an opportunity to advance a renewed consideration of human work. By emphasizing its most distinctively human dimensions, including
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The epistemological status of subsidiarity in organizations: An insight from the notion of principle in the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas Business and Society Review Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Bernard Guéry
Subsidiarity is often implicitly conceived as an organizational model or a Weberian ideal type. The purpose of this paper is to show that, in contrast, subsidiarity is a principle in the sense of the tradition originating from Thomas Aquinas. Considered as an ideal type, subsidiarity may be perceived as impossible to apply because of its ideal status, abstracted from the circumstances. Here, we will
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Support archetypes in ecosystems for social innovations Business and Society Review Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Nikolay A. Dentchev, Abel Alan Diaz Gonzalez, Xaver Neumeyer
Social innovations (SIs) offer creative solutions to complex social problems and often require the exchange of necessary resources, knowledge, and expertise among various actors. These actors form an ecosystem that can support the development of successful SIs. In this special topic forum introduction, we first discuss the literature related to the support function of ecosystems. We use the theoretical
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Responsible leadership and its place in the leadership domain: A meaning-based systematic review Business and Society Review Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Jeremias J. de Klerk, Michelle Jooste
The emerging field of responsible leadership holds various possibilities for business and society. The wide range of conceptualizations, definitions, and theorizations of RL as a distinctive or unique leadership construct has not previously been investigated through a systematic review. To conceptualize the intrinsic meaning of responsible leadership as a distinct leadership construct, and to bring
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A tribute to the late Dr. W. Michael Hoffman: Putting business ethics theory into practice Business and Society Review Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Mark S. Schwartz
This article is a tribute to the late Dr. W. Michael Hoffman's life and professional career (1943–2018), including his important contribution to the business ethics academic community, as well as to the practical world of business. Following a brief summary of Dr. Hoffman's professional achievements, several tributes are provided including from Professor Richard De George, columnist Gael O'Brien, and
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A comparison of the environmental sustainability of brick-and-mortar retailing and online retailing: Contrasting academic research and consumer perceptions Business and Society Review Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Patrick Klein, Bastian Popp
Sustainability has become paramount in society and retail. Therefore, this study aims to compare the environmental sustainability of brick-and-mortar retail and e-commerce. A literature review identifies various factors, such as buildings, shopping trips, order bundling, returns, packaging, transport and logistics, and environmentally conscious behavior, that determine the channel that is superior
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Issue Information Business and Society Review Pub Date : 2023-09-25
No abstract is available for this article.
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Social protest action, stakeholder management, and risk: Managing the impact of service delivery protests in South Africa Business and Society Review Pub Date : 2023-09-18 Albert Wöcke, Robert Grosse, Morris Mthombeni, Stefan Pfeffer
Stakeholder management is an important method for reducing business risk. Recent decades have seen the growth of a new type of stakeholder: social protest stakeholders, individuals engaging in protest action which is directed at other unrelated parties, often the government. However, the actions of social protest stakeholders may negatively affect companies located nearby. This stakeholder category
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Toward organizational integrity measurement: Developing a theoretical model of organizational integrity Business and Society Review Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Madeleine J. Fuerst, Christoph Luetge, Raphael Max, Alexander Kriebitz
Organizational integrity is a key concept with and through which a company can assume its responsibility for ethical and societal issues. It is a basic premise for sustainable corporate success, as ethical risks ultimately become economic risks for a company. Recent research shows the potential of integrity-based governance models to reduce corporate risks and to improve business performance. However
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Investigating the role of the state in regulating corporate social responsibility: Evidence from the Gulf Cooperation Council countries Business and Society Review Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Osman Ahmed El-Said, Heba Aziz, Maryam Mirzaei, Michael Smith
The purpose of this research is to provide an overview of state governance for corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). A systemic literature review method is employed to collect 88 relevant publications, and a qualitative coding method is used to identify 98 governance instruments from those publications. These are grouped into 13 themes and then
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No card, no service: Challenges faced by vulnerable populations of a cashless society Business and Society Review Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Dan Horne, M. Cary Collins
How people pay is critically important to consumers and businesses alike. Many consumers are choosing to pay for goods and services from an increasing number of options. Tech-savvy urbanites buy coffee by tapping their phone on a reader. Parents returning from a night out use peer-to-peer payment apps, such as Venmo, to pay the sitter. The recent explosion of financial innovations promises faster,
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Third eye: Unraveling the past, present, and future of the transgender workforce Business and Society Review Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Vibhav Singh
In the 21st century, talent is dynamic, with workplaces being defined by diverse sexual orientations. In this context, a quantitative approach through the lens of a bibliometric technique of citation and co-citation analyses was applied to study 456 publications on the topic of the transgender workforce from 1988 to 2022, and a co-word analysis was used to showcase a visual representation of the concept
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Mindful but forgetful: The negative effect of trait mindfulness on memories of immoral behavior Business and Society Review Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Scott J. Reynolds, Matt Eliseo, Trevor S. Watkins, Misha Mariam
Drawing from existing theory and empirical evidence on mindfulness, we posit that trait mindfulness is associated with less accurate memories of immoral conduct. We report three studies that provide evidence of this argument. One significant implication of this finding is that it provides a more balanced and complete view of mindfulness. Specifically, while mindfulness is widely promoted for its positive
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The framing of initial COVID-19 communication: Using unsupervised machine learning on press releases Business and Society Review Pub Date : 2023-09-10 Stella Tomasi, Sushma Kumble, Pratiti Diddi, Neeraj Parolia
The COVID-19 pandemic was a global health crisis that required US residents to understand the phenomenon, interpret the cues, and make sense within their environment. Therefore, how the communication of COVID-19 was framed to stakeholders during the early stages of the pandemic became important to guide them through specific actions in their state and subsequently with the sensemaking process. The
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Do advertisements with a social message elevate subjective well-being?: An examination of empirical associations Business and Society Review Pub Date : 2023-09-09 Iqra Manzoor, Zia ul Haq
Advertising, a form of publicity, can pass on a social message so that people understand their sobligation towards society. The purpose of this study was to look into how consumers responded to socially conscious advertisements. This study conceptualizes the antecedents of attitude towards commercial advertisements that incorporate the social message, including advertising creativity, informativeness
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Issue Information Business and Society Review Pub Date : 2023-06-22
No abstract is available for this article.
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Putting first things first1: Ordering DEI (diversity, equity, inclusion) in light of subsidiarity Business and Society Review Pub Date : 2023-06-20 Emery Koenig, Michael Naughton
As with any proposal for institutional reform, and especially one that has gained so much ground in such a short amount of time, this paper asks whether diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) movement is good for corporations. Are businesses stronger with DEI practices and ideas or weaker? We believe that the DEI movement is asking the right questions: How do we create more just and equitable institutions
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From logic to action on flourishing for all Business and Society Review Pub Date : 2023-06-19 Paul Shrivastava, John H. Grant
There is general agreement among sustainability professionals that sustainability needs to be implemented for all and not selectively for just a few. We argue that it is time to urgently act on sustainability and climate change. We suggest plausible actions by businesses, governments, consumers investors, and others. Not acting now risks the closing of a window of opportunity and potential social and
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Small but powerful—local value chains and sustainability-oriented approaches in the agri-food sector Business and Society Review Pub Date : 2023-06-19 Susanne Royer, Maike Simon
Regional and local value creation is seen as one solution for reducing the environmental impact of the agri-food system. The point of reference for this research is the powerless position of small actors in agri-food chains. This paper gives insights into the motivation of small-scale producers in developed countries to exit national and export markets and to opt for a sustainability orientation. Specifically
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Dark sides of social entrepreneurship: Contributions of systems thinking towards managing its effects Business and Society Review Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Ingrid Molderez, Janne Fets
Social enterprises are seen as innovative towards solving societal problems, but little research exists on possible negative aspects, the so-called dark sides. In this study, the emphasis is on dark sides of social entrepreneurship, how they are managed, and how systems thinking can contribute towards managing these effects. Dark sides of social entrepreneurship can take many forms, like unethical
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Moving sustainability towards flourishing for all: The critical role of (toxic) leadership Business and Society Review Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Clive R. Boddy
Moving sustainability towards flourishing for all implies a care for all and for the future. However, in this commentary I note that many corporate and political leaders do not care for others or the future because, embodying egotistical, ruthless, remorseless, and dishonest (psychopathic) characteristics, their concern is only for themselves. This commentary argues that toxic leadership and governance
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Sustainable marketing: an exploratory study of a sustain-centric, versus profit-centric, approach Business and Society Review Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Bruno Dyck, Rajesh V. Manchanda, Savanna Vagianos, Michèle Bernardin
As the need for business to address pressing social and ecological issues intensifies, so does the importance of enhancing the development of sustainable marketing. The current dominant approach to sustainable marketing is based on a Triple Bottom Line (TBL) profit-centric worldview, which suggests that firms can simultaneously improve their financial well-being as they reduce negative social and ecological
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Dynamics between universities and social entrepreneurs: Insights from a multi-country project in Latin America Business and Society Review Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Andrea Samaniego, Adriana Amaya, Edgar Izquierdo
Research has stressed the importance of universities in developing entrepreneurial ecosystems (EEs) and their possible social and economic impacts on society. Concerning this commitment, social entrepreneurs (SEs) favor university actions that facilitate the improvement of their individual capital. However, research on this topic has received little attention. This study investigated how universities
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Nexus between GHRM and organizational competitiveness: role of green innovation and organizational learning of MNEs Business and Society Review Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Patrick Obeng, Courage Simon Kofi Dogbe, Patience Ama Nyantakyiwaa Boahen
The focus of this study was to assess the mediating effect of green innovation, in the relationship between green human resources management (GHRM) and organizational competitiveness of manufacturing multinational enterprises (MNEs). The study further looked at the moderating effect of organizational learning in the relationship between GHRM on organizational competitiveness of manufacturing MNEs.
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Systems design thinking for social innovation: a learning perspective Business and Society Review Pub Date : 2023-06-06 Bowon Kim
We define social innovation as strategic decision making to improve social conditions and facilitate social changes in a desirable direction by dealing with crucial issues and solving fundamental societal problems. This paper proposes a framework that enables the decision maker to implement social innovation effectively. The framework consists of three influential theories or ways of thinking, that
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A heuristic perspective on factors that drive governments' approval of genetically modified crop commercialization Business and Society Review Pub Date : 2023-06-06 Lailani L. Alcantara, Nir Kshetri
While there is abundant research on innovations, we know little about why and when the commercialization of highly contested innovations, such as genetically modified (GM) crops, is approved by governments. In this paper, we argue that governments' decision to approve the commercialization of GM crops is influenced by heuristics based on the decisions of other governments with which they have greater
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Promoting the advocacy behavior of customers through corporate social responsibility: The role of brand admiration Business and Society Review Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Naveed Ahmad, Zia Ullah, Esra AlDhaen, Irfan Siddique
Given that personal source of information is preferred by the customers over company-generated marketing communications, promoting advocacy behavior among customers is of much importance for every organization. Literature suggests that an organization's corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities significantly influence individual behavior. However, the advocacy behavior of customers (ADB), from
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Entrepreneurial ecosystem for promoting social innovation in emerging markets: Is corporate social responsibility integration with technology business incubators the right path? Business and Society Review Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Savita Bhat
This study attempts to fill in two research gaps in the extant literature concerning the ecosystem for social innovation in the context of emerging market economies such as India. The study first attempts to assess the potential of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in not-for-profit entities such as technology business incubators (TBIs) to stimulate social innovations in the prevalent ecosystems
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Mapping the intellectual linkage of sustainability in marketing Business and Society Review Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Yating Tian, Qeis Kamran
This study explores the status quo regarding the interface between marketing, social and environmental issues, culture and consumers, and strategic management by integrating sustainability. A qualitative display network technique, based on the bibliometric methodology of co-citation analysis, was applied to examine research clusters. An integrative review was conducted to explain the connections within
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Issue Information Business and Society Review Pub Date : 2023-03-20
No abstract is available for this article.
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Women entrepreneurship: Mumpreneurs cruising the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia Business and Society Review Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Jacob Donald Tan, John Lee Kean Yew
Learning from experiences is key towards the discovery of enterprising knowledge for mumpreneurs in emerging economies such as Indonesia, where most of the entrepreneurship literature is still relatively scant. In discussing entrepreneurial learning of entrepreneurs who are in motherhood, also known as mumpreneurs, these studies require the consideration of gender distinction of women. The term “mumpreneurs”
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Developing a framework for determining when a company should introduce a new ethical norm Business and Society Review Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Muel Kaptein
When should a company introduce a new ethical norm? This article uses the value-belief-norm theory to argue that the more an ethical issue threatens a company's ethical value and the more the company has an ethical responsibility to protect such value against such threat, then the more desirable it is for a company to establish ethical norms to protect said value. Distinguishing seven characteristics
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Evolving alliance between corporate environmental performance and financial performance: A bibliometric analysis and systematic literature review Business and Society Review Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Seemita Bose Chowdhury, Ranjan DasGupta, Binoy Krishna Choudhury, Nabinananda Sen
This study aims to overview the existing literature, knowledge framework, and intellectual structure mapping in the field of corporate environmental performance (CEP) and corporate financial performance (CFP) by employing a bibliometric analysis approach to selected 311 papers sourced from the Scopus database between 1994 and 2022. It presents the publication growth, influential sources, productive
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From organizations as systems of ocean destruction to organizations as systems of ocean thriving Business and Society Review Pub Date : 2023-02-23 Heloise Berkowitz
Despite growing awareness around human impacts on marine ecosystems, little action is taken to reduce the negative effects of organizations on the ocean, thus increasing risks of global collapse. In this paper, I argue that organizations act as systems of ocean destruction, and I explore how to operate a shift to organizations as systems of ocean conservation and thriving, enabling human–ocean socio-ecological
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To behave or not to behave ethically: A question of style? Business and Society Review Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Gentrit Berisha, Luciana Oliveira, Edon Humolli
What makes people behave ethically continues to be at the forefront of business ethics research. The stylistic makeup of the decision-maker has been suspected to influence individual ethical behavior; however, this body of research accounts only for a handful of studies. This paper investigates the influence of decision-making styles as an individual difference on unethical behavior, independently
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Willingness to receive and provide resources in Europe's non-remunerated and remunerated collaborative consumption Business and Society Review Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Filip Majetić, Rodrigo Perez-Vega
Rooted in theory of planned behavior (TPB) supplemented with self-determination theory (SDT), this study explores determinants of willingness to receive and provide resources in Europe's non-remunerated and remunerated collaborative consumption (CC). The exploration was conducted within a single research model by assessing the role of (a) TPB constructs reflecting attitude towards participation in
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Climate change awareness and mitigation practices in small and medium-sized enterprises: Evidence from Swiss firms Business and Society Review Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Anita Fuchs, Preeya Mohan, Eric Strobl
The objective of this paper is to investigate climate change awareness and mitigation effort and their associated motivating and limiting factors to pro-environmental behavior and firm demographics in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Switzerland. For this purpose, a questionnaire was developed, conducted, and analyzed on motivating and limiting factors along with firm demographics, using
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Issue Information Business and Society Review Pub Date : 2022-12-22
No abstract is available for this article.
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RETRACTED: Oksana Lomakina, Viktoriya Kookueva, Anna Makarenko, Redistribution of economic resources in the digital society. Bus Soc Rev. 2021;126:25–35. (https://doi.org/10.1111/basr.12220) Business and Society Review Pub Date : 2022-12-13
Retraction: The above article, published online on 26 February 2021 in Wiley Online Library (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/basr.12220) has been retracted by agreement between the journal's Editor-in-Chief and Wiley Periodicals LLC. The retraction has been agreed following concerns regarding manipulation of the peer review and publishing process. Concerns were originally raised by a third
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The ethical obligations of institutional investors: Managing moral complexity Business and Society Review Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Jason Skirry, Katherina Pattit, Harry J. Van Buren
Institutional investors control almost 60% of all assets under management worldwide and encompass a wide variety of organizations. Despite this reach, however, institutional investors have not received the normative scrutiny they merit beyond general discussions around their legally grounded fiduciary obligations to their beneficiaries. This paper offers a discussion of institutional investor ethical
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Understanding the impact of pandemics on society with a special focus on COVID-19 Business and Society Review Pub Date : 2022-12-11 Sahil Malik, Meghna Chhabra, Geetika Malik Chandra
The study aims to ascertain how different levels of society have been influenced by the impact of pandemics over the last many years. The study also determines the societal implications of the COVID-19 pandemic. The integrative literature survey method is adopted to extract the secondary data pertinent to the socio-economic effect of pandemics and COVID-19 on society. Primary data is collected to diagnose
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Market reaction to fossil fuel divestment announcements: Evidence from the United States Business and Society Review Pub Date : 2022-12-11 Solomon George Zori, Michael H. C. Bakker, Francis Xavier D. Tuokuu, Jeremy Pare
Fossil fuel divestment movements have gained momentum since 2011, aimed at ending fossil fuel use and a move toward a cleaner, affordable, and sustainable energy system, for business and society. The present study investigates the direct impact of fossil fuel divestment announcements on stock prices of firms listed on the United States' stock exchanges. Using an event study and guided by the United
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Perceptions of corporate communication on debated social issues Business and Society Review Pub Date : 2022-12-08 Joshua M. Parcha
Corporations are increasingly engaging in corporate social advocacy (CSA) by communicating on social issues that are controversial and contemporary and not necessarily linked to the corporations' business activities. The purpose of this study is to understand the desirability of CSA: Should corporations be communicating on these debated social issues, and to what extent? Using the online sampling platform
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Soft regulation of women on boards: Evidence from Canada Business and Society Review Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Erin Oldford
In this study, I examine the effectiveness of a national board gender diversity disclosure requirement, which is, arguably, on the “soft” end of the continuum of boardroom interventions. Using a panel dataset of 1847 hand-collected corporate disclosures from 2015 to 2018, I perform a post-event, historical trend analysis of the efficacy of Canada's 2014 intervention. I find evidence of real progress
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Social risk, green market orientation, entrepreneurial orientation, and new product performance among European Multinational Enterprises operating in developing economies Business and Society Review Pub Date : 2022-12-02 Wisdom Wise Kwabla Pomegbe, Courage Simon Kofi Dogbe, Bylon Abeeku Bamfo, Prasad Siba Borah, Jewel Dela Novixoxo
The current study sought to assess the mediating role of green market orientation dimensions in the relationship between social risk and new product performance among European Multinational Enterprises (EMNEs). We also assessed the moderating role of entrepreneurial orientation in the relationship between green market orientation and new product performance. The study was based on primary data gathered
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Women's movements and female board representation Business and Society Review Pub Date : 2022-11-25 Michael Neureiter, CB Bhattacharya
Scholars know relatively little about the potential impact of women's movements on gender diversity in the corporate world. We aim to fill this gap in the literature by providing the first empirical analysis of the relationship between women's movements and female representation on boards of directors. Drawing on political process theory, we argue that the strength of a women's movement is positively
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Issue Information Business and Society Review Pub Date : 2022-09-12
No abstract is available for this article.
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A resource-based view on the role of universities in supportive ecosystems for social entrepreneurs Business and Society Review Pub Date : 2022-09-02 Abel Diaz-Gonzalez, Nikolay A. Dentchev
This paper investigates the role that universities play in supporting social entrepreneurs (SEs) across their ecosystem. Adopting the resource-based view (RBV) approach, we argue that universities attract, mobilize, and deploy multiple resources that benefit SEs through four main mechanisms (i.e., teaching, research, outreach, and the development of partnerships). We use a qualitative approach of 62
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Moving beyond the business case for female leaders: A longitudinal panel study of the impact of female leadership on corporate social responsibility Business and Society Review Pub Date : 2022-08-30 John Tichenor, Alan Green, Jessica West, Randall Croom
This article examines the impact of female leadership on corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices in publicly traded corporations. Our analysis finds that female leadership matters. For example, female leadership at the board level increases the likelihood of having a female CEO and the overall percentage of women executives in firms. The study measures CSR practices using the Thomson Reuters
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An interdisciplinary perspective on private sector engagement in cross-sector partnerships: The why, where, and how Business and Society Review Pub Date : 2022-08-30 Jennifer Sdunzik, Daniel K. Bampoh, Joseph V. Sinfield, Lindley McDavid, Daniel Burgess, Wilella D. Burgess
Private sector engagement (PSE) is increasingly acknowledged in both literature and practice as a necessary mechanism to sustainably address development challenges. Despite increased practitioner and academic interest in these partnerships, there have been negligible attempts to systematically investigate cross-sector partnerships to distill best practices from the multiple environments in which they
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Responsible leadership and business sustainability: Exploring the role of corporate social responsibility and managerial discretion Business and Society Review Pub Date : 2022-08-28 Muhammad Amir, Muhammad Siddique, Kamran Ali
In today's world, businesses are involved in several different initiatives to gain sustainable performance, which can discourse the expectations and demands of society. Emerging economics faces numerous challenges in terms of social, relational, governance, and financial, which made it necessary for firms to perform responsibly in order to make positive contributions toward sustainability. Therefore
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CSR practices and Sustainable Development Goals: Exploring the connections in Indian context Business and Society Review Pub Date : 2022-08-27 Jayadev Satapathy, Tattwamasi Paltasingh
There was a growing realization that Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are overarching, ambitious, complex, and less impactful. Consequently, the 193 member countries of the United Nations (UN) came out with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a well-thought-out global development agenda in the year 2015. By involving the private sectors in the designing of SDGs, UN has rightly identified their
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A case-study approach to mapping Corporate Citizenship Business and Society Review Pub Date : 2022-08-24 Stephen T. Homer
This explores what responsible business practice within the context of Malaysia, an Eastern collective society, diverging from the Western individualistic society where most Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) research originates. A bottom-up approach was adopted, incorporating different stakeholder perspectives of a case-study firm, widely acknowledged for its CSR programs. Concept mapping method
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The virtues of COVID-19 pandemic: How working from home can make us the best (or the worst) version of ourselves Business and Society Review Pub Date : 2022-08-23 Marta Rocchi, Caleb Bernacchio
The combined effect of technological innovations in the workplace and the lockdowns imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic has rapidly increased the prominence of remote working, with an undeniable impact on both business and society. In light of this organizational and sociological change, this article analyzes how this renewed work environment can be the place where workers can develop several relevant
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Issue Information Business and Society Review Pub Date : 2022-06-10
No abstract is available for this article.