{"title":"Correction to “Business and Society Review, volume 130, issue S1”","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/basr.70016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/basr.70016","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 <span>Guimarães-Costa, N.</span>, <span>Schmidt, G.</span>, <span>Schulz, K.-P.</span>, <span>Waddock, S.</span> (<span>2025</span>). <span>Moving the logic of sustainability towards flourishing for all</span>, <i>Business and Society Review</i>, <span>130</span>(<span>S1</span>). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14678594/2025/130/S1</p><p>In the above issue published on 10 April 2025, the article pagination has been corrected as follows:\u0000\u0000 </p><p>We apologize for this error.</p>","PeriodicalId":46747,"journal":{"name":"BUSINESS AND SOCIETY REVIEW","volume":"130 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/basr.70016","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144615380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Corporate social responsibility at the intersection of state and market: CSR interpretation in China","authors":"Xu Kang","doi":"10.1111/basr.70011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/basr.70011","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article explores the interpretation of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in an authoritarian context, with a specific focus on China. Despite surged CSR disclosures by Chinese firms, their understanding and application of CSR often align more with the party-state's policy directives than with international self-regulation standards. By analyzing CSR narratives from various actors, including government agencies, corporations, and third parties, through the lens of institutional logics, this article provides a comprehensive exploration of the influence of authoritarian capitalist institutions on CSR interpretation in China, offering theoretical insights into business and human rights issues within authoritarian state contexts.</p>","PeriodicalId":46747,"journal":{"name":"BUSINESS AND SOCIETY REVIEW","volume":"130 2","pages":"233-259"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/basr.70011","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144615379","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stakeholder ethics: Defining the ethical responsibilities of stakeholders to and for companies1","authors":"Muel Kaptein","doi":"10.1111/basr.70010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/basr.70010","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Because business ethics focuses on the ethical responsibilities of companies to and for their stakeholders, the impression that companies have only duties and that stakeholders have only rights can arise. To prevent stakeholders from becoming passive as a result, this article explores the ethical responsibilities of stakeholders to and for the companies of which they are stakeholders. Using corporate social contract theory, which holds that all contracting parties have ethical responsibilities, five principles are identified as the ethical responsibilities of stakeholders <i>to</i> their companies: empathy, fairness, solidarity, reliability, and openness. Corporate social contract theory also allows the identification of five grounds comprising the extent to which stakeholders are responsible <i>for</i> their companies: endorsement, enablement, influence, profit, and ownership. The more these grounds are present, the more stakeholders have coresponsibility for the company of which they are stakeholders. Therefore, this article opens the door more widely to study and practice stakeholder ethics.</p>","PeriodicalId":46747,"journal":{"name":"BUSINESS AND SOCIETY REVIEW","volume":"130 2","pages":"209-232"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/basr.70010","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144615003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gender diversity in the boardroom: Progress and organizational determinants in China and India, 2015–2020","authors":"Wenjing Li, Jennifer Castañeda-Navarrete","doi":"10.1111/basr.70009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/basr.70009","url":null,"abstract":"<p>There is growing evidence that gender diversity on corporate boards positively impacts company performance. However, this relationship remains relatively underexplored in developing and emerging economies, particularly in the context of recent legislative initiatives such as the introduction of gender quotas and during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study addresses this gap by investigating board gender diversity trends and organizational determinants in China and India between 2015 and 2020. Using data from the OSIRIS, ORBIS, and CSMAR databases, we examine trends in gender diversity across companies listed on the S&P BSE 200 index in India and the CSI 300 index in China. Our findings reveal higher levels of gender diversity and more rapid improvements among Indian firms, where listed companies are required to appoint at least one woman to their boards since 2013. Using a Tobit regression model, our analysis reveals that family-owned and larger firms in both countries are more likely to appoint women directors, while state-owned enterprises, particularly in China, exhibit lower gender diversity. Industry-specific variations are also significant, with Indian firms in non-traditional sectors demonstrating greater diversity. These findings offer insights for policymakers and industry leaders seeking to improve gender representation on corporate boards in emerging economies.</p>","PeriodicalId":46747,"journal":{"name":"BUSINESS AND SOCIETY REVIEW","volume":"130 2","pages":"189-208"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/basr.70009","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144615540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Embracing social responsibility: Insights from Iranian Premier League football clubs","authors":"Nahid Atghia, Ali Nazarian, Mohsin Shahzad","doi":"10.1111/basr.70008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/basr.70008","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Despite existing literature on ISO 26000 and its application in various industries, there is a notable gap in research specifically focusing on the application of these indicators within the context of sports organizations, particularly football clubs. This study aims to address this gap by providing insights into the unique challenges and opportunities faced by Iranian Premier League football clubs in enhancing their social responsibility (SR) practices. The present study analyzed the key indicators of ISO 26000 in order to improve SR using Statistica 13 software. The new technique of multi-layer artificial perceptron (MLP) neural network was used to estimate and evaluate. Results from these analyses highlight the efficacy of specific SR models, indicating the significance of factors such as development and community involvement, labor practices, and fair operating practices in driving positive outcomes (Model 11). The findings underscore the commitment of Iranian Premier League clubs to advancing SR principles, paving the way for continued progress and impact in the sports industry and broader society. This study contributes to filling the existing gap by highlighting the potential of development and community involvement, labor practices, and fair operating practices to enhance SR in football clubs in such contexts.</p>","PeriodicalId":46747,"journal":{"name":"BUSINESS AND SOCIETY REVIEW","volume":"130 2","pages":"162-188"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144615333","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The enforcers thesis","authors":"Rob Wells","doi":"10.1111/basr.70007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/basr.70007","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Business journalism is often criticized for failing to reach beyond a narrow audience of stock brokers and business executives, even though news about business affects the broader society. This critique is more pronounced for a genre of journalism known as the trade press or business-to-business media, news organizations that cover specific industries such as defense or trucking. New research shows robust investigative and accountability journalism in the trade press field, reporting that angered important industry players but was socially beneficial since it identified bad actors in the business. This article offers a new theoretical construct, the Enforcers Thesis, to describe conditions that support investigative and accountability journalism in the trade press and how such reporting can advance socially beneficial goals. The Enforcers Thesis describes how business reporters focus on normative ethical practices in industry and tend to report on companies that violate those norms. This process results in accountability reporting, where journalists effectively enforce a code of industry conduct or secular morality by identifying socially harmful business actors.</p>","PeriodicalId":46747,"journal":{"name":"BUSINESS AND SOCIETY REVIEW","volume":"130 2","pages":"152-161"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/basr.70007","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144615144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction to ‘Moving sustainability towards flourishing for all: The critical role of (toxic) leadership’","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/basr.70005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/basr.70005","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 <span>Boddy, C. R.</span> (<span>2023</span>). <span>Moving sustainability towards flourishing for all: The critical role of (toxic) leadership</span>. <i>Business and Society Review</i>, <span>128</span>(<span>4</span>), <span>591</span>–<span>605</span>. https://doi.org/10.1111/basr.12309</p><p>This article is part of the <i>Moving the Logic of Sustainability Towards Flourishing for All</i> special issue but was inadvertently published in the January 2024 issue.</p><p>We apologize for the error.</p>","PeriodicalId":46747,"journal":{"name":"BUSINESS AND SOCIETY REVIEW","volume":"130 S1","pages":"163"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/basr.70005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143818462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eric B. Dent, John A. Parnell, William F. Martin, George Cabot Lodge
{"title":"“The future of capitalism”: A 50-year retrospective","authors":"Eric B. Dent, John A. Parnell, William F. Martin, George Cabot Lodge","doi":"10.1111/basr.70006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/basr.70006","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In 1974, <i>Business Society and Review/Innovation (BSR)</i> published “The Future of Capitalism: A Symposium,” in which six experts predicted the future of the US economic system. These experts agreed that in the future, capitalism would still be the primary economic system of the United States, but the government would play a more significant role. In 1975, Martin and Lodge surveyed <i>Harvard Business Review (HBR)</i> subscribers about the ideological underpinnings of capitalism and their predictions. Similarly, these subscribers believed that capitalism was dominant then but would evolve into a socially capitalistic format in the future. We updated their work fifty years later by surveying 1,635 managers and professionals in the US. Our findings suggest a growing preference for an ideology that retains some of the fundamentals of capitalism but modifies others. We propose polarity thinking as a framework that may best explain how the future US economy might be both capitalistic and communitarian without being socialist. This quasi-capitalist form is developing, but the specifics of its implementation in the future are unclear.</p>","PeriodicalId":46747,"journal":{"name":"BUSINESS AND SOCIETY REVIEW","volume":"130 2","pages":"132-151"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144614909","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Eco-helping behavior for a better sustainable world: Do eco-centric leadership and green psychological climate matter?","authors":"Shetu Ranjan Biswas, Md. Aftab Uddin, Mouri Dey, Monowar Mahmood, Dipanwita Bhattacharjee","doi":"10.1111/basr.70003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/basr.70003","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In-role and pro-environmental behaviors are perhaps widely studied domains as an outcome of environmental leadership in the field of organizational behavior, yet there is an exiguity of research regarding the impact of eco-centric leadership on a new dimension of environmental behaviors-eco-helping behavior. Based on the tenets of the value-belief-norm theory, this study investigates the association between eco-centric leadership and eco-helping behavior as well as moderating role of green psychological climate in the hypothesized relationship. Convenience sampling was employed to collect the cross-sectional data from employees of a wide range of industries in Bangladesh. The findings revealed that eco-centric leadership influences ecological attitude, in turn affecting eco-helping behavior in a fully mediated mechanism. However, leadership style appeared not to directly influence the employees' eco-helping behavior. In addition, favorable intervention from green organizational climate seems to have strengthen the influence of eco-centric leadership on eco-helping behavior. This study seeks to shed light on how organizations in developing economies can minimize environmental degradation through the ecological behavior of their employees, guided by ecological leadership. Theoretical contributions, managerial implications, and future research direction are also incorporated.</p>","PeriodicalId":46747,"journal":{"name":"BUSINESS AND SOCIETY REVIEW","volume":"130 1","pages":"81-102"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143793327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Grassroots innovation ecosystems supporting low-income innovators in emerging markets: A study on the Honey Bee Network","authors":"Marleen Wierenga","doi":"10.1111/basr.70004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/basr.70004","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Existing research on innovation ecosystems has primarily focused on advanced economies or higher income settings within emerging markets. This study aims to address how to nurture an innovation ecosystem that fosters entrepreneurship in low-income contexts in emerging markets. This question is explored through a case study approach, studying the India-based Honey Bee Network, an organization with extensive experience in poverty alleviation and a specific focus on innovative low-income innovators and entrepreneurs. This study contributes to the literature on innovation ecosystems by identifying the grassroots innovation ecosystem as a unique type of ecosystem. Furthermore, it theorizes the role of the grassroots orchestrator as the actor who builds bridges between resource-rich actors and innovators lacking entrepreneurial resources and capabilities.</p>","PeriodicalId":46747,"journal":{"name":"BUSINESS AND SOCIETY REVIEW","volume":"130 1","pages":"103-130"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143793309","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}