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The Contested Politics of Corporate Governance: The Case of the Global Report…
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has successfully become institutionalized as the preeminent global framework for voluntary corporate environmental and social reporting. Its success can be attributed to the “institutional entrepreneurs” who analyzed the reporting field and deployed discursive, material, and organizational strategies to change it. GRI has, however, fallen short of the aspir…
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- Vol. 49 no. 1, March 2010.pp. 88-115
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(Re)Forming Strategic Cross-Sector Partnerships: Relational Processes of Soci…
This study explores the relational processes that underpin social innovation within strategic cross-sector partnerships. Using four longitudinal narratives to document the duality of success and failure in strategic collaborations between nonprofit and for-profit organizations, the authors explain how partners navigate this duality: deliberate role (re)calibrations help the partners sustain the…
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- Vol. 49 no. 1, March 2010.pp. 140-172
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Review Essay: Reflections on Relationships Between NGOs and Corporations
This review essay reflects on relationships between the NGO activism and advocacy movement and corporations. The essay does so through a review of Yaziji and Doh’s 2009 book NGOs and Corporations: Conflict and Collaboration. The review essay considers the strengths and weaknesses of the book in relationship to our understanding of NGOs. The essay emphasizes that both NGO and corporate perspect…
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- Vol. 49 no. 1, March 2010.pp. 173-178
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Governance Choice for Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility: Evidence Fro…
The decision to internalize corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities, to buy (outsource) them in the form of corporate philanthropy, or to collaborate with other organizations is of great significance to the ability of the firm to reap benefits from such activity. Using insights provided by organizational economics and the resource-based view of the firm, this article describes how CSR …
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- Vol. 49 no. 2, June 2010.pp. 201-215
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Corporate Social Responsibility in Mexico and France: Exploring the Role of N…
Scholarship on corporate social responsibility (CSR) shows both that the concept itself is interpreted in a multitude of different ways and that significant cross-cultural differences exist in the way that business approaches the question of social responsibility and ethics. Little comparative work, however, has yet been carried out that investigates the reasons behind such differences. The aut…
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- Vol. 49 no. 2, June 2010.pp. 216-251
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Is Corporate Social Performance a Criterion in the Overseas Investment Strate…
This study examines overseas investing by U.S.-domiciled pension plans. The authors explore whether U.S. pension plans invest based on corporate social performance (CSP) in a core overseas market, the United Kingdom. As a guide to social investing opportunities available to U.S. pension funds in the United Kingdom, their investments are compared to U.K.-domiciled pension plan domestic investmen…
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- Vol. 49 no. 2, June 2010.pp. 252-289
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International Business Dynamics: Drivers of Multinational Corporations’ In-…
Globalization of the world economy and proliferation of multinational corporations (MNCs) has dramatically affected the power balance among international actors. On one hand, MNCs have long influenced the states in which they operate, with the consequent erosion of state sovereignty. On the other, states directly affect MNCs, in effect becoming another factor of production in addition to the ec…
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- Vol. 49 no. 2, June 2010.pp. 290-315
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Toward a General Theory of CSRs: The Roles of Beneficence, Profitability, Ins…
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a tortured concept. A number of alternative definitions of the construct exist at the theoretical level, and much debate surrounds the meaning (and its related implications for practice) of the term. Empirically, CSR research reaches few remarkable conclusions. In this article, the authors reconceptualize CSR into a number of discrete corporate social re…
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- Vol. 49 no. 2, June 2010.pp. 316-344
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Conceptualizing and Measuring Ethical Work Climate: Development and Validatio…
This article describes the development of a new theory and measure of ethical work climate. Three studies are conducted to construct the Ethical Climate Index (ECI) and measure the ethical work climate dimensions of collective moral sensitivity (12 items), collective moral judgment (10 items), collective moral motivation (8 items), and collective moral character (6 items). Results of the third …
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- Vol. 49 no. 2, June 2010.pp. 345-358
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The Impact of Corporate Supplier Diversity Programs on Corporate Purchasersâ€â€¦
This doctoral thesis examines the impact of corporate supplier diversity programs on corporate purchasers’ intention to purchase from women-owned enterprises using Ajzen’s theory of planned behavior. Two hundred and seventy-two corporate purchasers across a diverse range of industries and geographical regions in the United States participated in a mail survey in which the participants responded…
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- Vol. 49 no. 2, June 2010.pp. 359-380
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A New Future for Business? Rethinking Management Theory and Business Strategy
In this introductory article, we discuss the need for a rethinking of the theoretical foundations of management and the practice of business strategy in view of a range of social, environmental and ethical challenges that highlight the limits of ‘business as usual’. Calls for a reconsideration of current approaches have come to the fore in the fields of management, accounting, marketing and fin…
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- Vol. 49 no. 3, September 2010.pp. 385-401
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Conceptions of the Business-Society-Nature Interface: Implications for Manage…
This article explores the implicit and explicit conceptions of the relationship between business, society, and nature that are evident in the management literature. The authors derive three conceptions, termed the disparate, intertwined, and embedded views, and consider how they relate to the economic, social, and environmental challenges of our time. It is argued that an embedded view is best…
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- Vol. 49 no. 3, September 2010.pp. 402-438
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Demystifying the Struggles of Private Sector Paradigmatic Change: Business as…
In this article, the author applies complex systems theory (CST) to help understand why, after 14 years of management scholar advocacy for a paradigmatic shift in management behavior, the field of management has been unable to move away from a technocentric paradigm. Using four principles of complex adaptive systems (CAS), the author shows that focusing exclusively on business behavior limits o…
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- Vol. 49 no. 3. September 2010. pp. 439-476
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Beyond Adaptation: Resilience for Business in Light of Climate Change and Wea…
Scientific findings forecast that one of the major consequences of human-induced climate change and global warming is a greater occurrence of extreme weather events with potentially catastrophic effects for organizations, industries, and society. Current management and adaptation approaches typically focus on economic factors of competition, such as technology and innovation. Although offering …
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- Vol. 49 no. 3, September 2010.pp. 477-511
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Beyond Corporate Environmental Management to a Consideration of Nature in Vis…
This article examines the potential for visionary small-enterprise to operate with a fundamentally different conception of nature from the environmental management mode offered within the business case for sustainable development. Corporate environmental management is critiqued for not offering any fundamental reassessment of the business—nature relationship, which would be required to achieve …
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- Vol. 49 no. 3, September 2010. pp. 512-547
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Review Essay: Disagreeing About the Climate
This review article reflects on the current controversy concerning climate change. The article does so through a review of Hulme’s book Why We Disagree About Climate Change . The article also considers the implications of the Stern Report.
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- Vol. 49 no. 3, September 2010. pp. 548-557
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Organizational Responses to Negative Evaluation by External Stakeholders: The…
The authors offer a framework based on the stakeholder, organizational identity, and strategic response literatures to specify how organizational identity influences an organization’s responses to negative evaluation in the public domain by external stakeholders. The framework proposes how the number of organizational identities possessed by an organization and the level of perceived organizati…
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- Vol. 48 no. 4, December 2009.pp. 438-466
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The Impact of External Monitoring and Public Reporting on Business Performanc…
This study examines the importance of external monitoring and public reporting on the performance of firms in the global apparel industry. By focusing on the relevance of company reputation in the global community, the authors examine financial performance and stock market reaction to the release of information describing the manufacturing practices of firms made available by a third-party moni…
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- Vol. 48 no. 4, December 2009.pp. 489-510
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“A Necessary Supplement”: What the United Nations Global Compact Is and I…
The United Nations Global Compact is with currently more than 6,000 voluntary participants the world’s largest corporate citizenship initiative. This article first analyzes three critical allegations often made against the Compact by looking at the academic and nonacademic literature. (1) The Compact supports the capture of the United Nations by “big business.” (2) Its 10 principles are vague a…
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- Vol. 48 no. 4, December 2009.pp. 511-537
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When the Whistle Is Blown: Legal Defenses and Practical Guidelines for Managi…
The recent U.S. Supreme Court opinion in Garcetti v. Ceballos decided that public employees are not necessarily protected under the law if they make statements about alleged improprieties committed by their employers, and can in fact be disciplined for such disclosures. The controversy over this case, combined with the recent publicity surrounding whistle-blower actions, indicates that many peo…
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- Vol. 48 no. 4, December 2009.pp. 467-488
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