Nikolay A. Dentchev, L. Michelini, A. Verbeke, J. Hall, Jenny Hillemann
{"title":"New Perspectives on Base of the Pyramid Strategies","authors":"Nikolay A. Dentchev, L. Michelini, A. Verbeke, J. Hall, Jenny Hillemann","doi":"10.1177/00076503221125420","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00076503221125420","url":null,"abstract":"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 emergent perspective suggests that the solution to poverty lies within the BOP itself. Here, entrepreneurship within the BOP population is seen as the more credible solution to poverty. In this Special Issue introduction, we briefly present how the literature has further shifted the discussion of BOP strategies toward issues such as innovation, networks, business models, and sustainability at the BOP. This analysis signals a gap in our knowledge related to the success factors in business models of BOP entrepreneurs, with attention to economic, social, and environmental impacts. We present the five articles accepted for publication in this Special Issue, of which three contribute to our knowledge of BOP business models and two to our knowledge of sustainability at the BOP. In conclusion, we propose several avenues for future research.","PeriodicalId":48193,"journal":{"name":"Business & Society","volume":"61 1","pages":"1977 - 1991"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49135737","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jill A. Brown, A. Spicer, K. Rehbein, C. Higgins, F. D. de Bakker, Hari Bapuji
{"title":"More Than an Umbrella Construct: We Can (and Should) Do Better With CSR by Theorizing Through Context","authors":"Jill A. Brown, A. Spicer, K. Rehbein, C. Higgins, F. D. de Bakker, Hari Bapuji","doi":"10.1177/00076503221126642","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00076503221126642","url":null,"abstract":"The importance of context in theory development is well recognized across multiple fields of study in management and organization (Bamberger, 2008; Cappelli & Sherer, 1991; Johns, 2006; Maloney et al., 2016; Rousseau & Fried, 2001; Xu & Zhang, 2022). At its most basic level, context adds scope conditions to basic hypotheses: Condition A may lead to Condition B under Context X but not in Context Y. Ignoring situational contingencies may lead to systemic bias, to overgeneralizing results based on a lack of awareness of context-based range restrictions, or to reversed causal directions and sign reversals in academic research (Hackman, 2003; Johns, 2006; Maloney et al., 2016). It also may contribute to overly-optimistic beliefs in one-size-fits-all solutions that overlook the need for careful adaption of practices to match local conditions (Ragin, 2000). In line with these long-standing calls, we argue that within the domain of business and society, and arguably of management and organization studies more broadly, we still need to pay more attention to context theorizing. As Bamberger (2008) asserted: “context counts and, where possible, should be given theoretical consideration” (p. 839, italics in original). Looking back at our term as co-editors, in this Editors’ Insights, we chose to revisit the benefits of theorizing through context for issues of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and related topics such as corporate social performance (CSP), corporate citizenship, corporate responsiveness, and civic","PeriodicalId":48193,"journal":{"name":"Business & Society","volume":"61 1","pages":"1965 - 1976"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46817688","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jingtao Yi, Liang Chen, S. Meng, Sali Li, Noman Shaheer
{"title":"Bribe Payments and State Ownership: The Impact of State Ownership on Bribery Propensity and Intensity","authors":"Jingtao Yi, Liang Chen, S. Meng, Sali Li, Noman Shaheer","doi":"10.1177/00076503221124860","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00076503221124860","url":null,"abstract":"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 propensity and bribery intensity in different ways; it lowers a firm’s tendency to pay bribes but increases the relative amount of bribery payment. Building on the control rights/bargaining hypotheses, we demonstrate that state ownership shields firms from bribery demands by reducing administrative hurdles that include bureaucratic requirements of obtaining licenses or settling taxes in business operations. However, state ownership elevates the level of bribes by weakening their capital mobility. Using a sample of 23,018 firms from 54 countries covering 2006 to 2013, we find evidence to support our hypotheses. This article contributes to corruption research by drawing attention to an important channel of corruption and by highlighting the importance of considering not only the propensity but also the intensity of bribe payments.","PeriodicalId":48193,"journal":{"name":"Business & Society","volume":"62 1","pages":"1103 - 1135"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45951011","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Coordinated Enactment: How Organizational Departments Work Together to Implement CSR","authors":"David Risi, C. Wickert, Tommaso Ramus","doi":"10.1177/00076503221110213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00076503221110213","url":null,"abstract":"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 influence CSR implementation, the question of how they work together remains underexamined. We address this question by mobilizing and merging two complementary yet separate perspectives on CSR implementation: “coordination” and “enactment.” Building on a comparative case study involving seven large Swiss financial institutions that have established CSR departments and implemented CSR to varying extents, we inductively derive six courses of actions conducing to CSR implementation, involving both coordination and enactment. We distinguish between four courses of actions in the CSR departments (centralizing, coalescing, orchestrating, and consulting) and two courses of actions in the functional departments (decentralizing and tailoring). As our data suggest that coordination and enactment work in tandem, we capture these insights in a model of CSR implementation as coordinated enactment. Our research contributes to the literature by explaining how CSR departments and functional departments enact and simultaneously coordinate CSR at a particular implementation stage, thus illuminating how and why the variance in CSR implementation occurs.","PeriodicalId":48193,"journal":{"name":"Business & Society","volume":"62 1","pages":"745 - 786"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47063652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. de Bruin, Michael J. Roy, S. Grant, Kate V. Lewis
{"title":"Advancing a Contextualized, Community-Centric Understanding of Social Entrepreneurial Ecosystems","authors":"A. de Bruin, Michael J. Roy, S. Grant, Kate V. Lewis","doi":"10.1177/00076503221121820","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00076503221121820","url":null,"abstract":"We investigate what distinguishes social entrepreneurial ecosystems (SEEs) from entrepreneurial ecosystems (EEs) through appreciation of the importance of context—the multiplex of intertwined social, spatial, temporal, historical, cultural, and political influences. Community is incorporated as a key variable and hitherto overlooked dimension of the structure and influence of SEEs. We draw on extant literature and examples of a variety of SEEs to support our propositions and demonstrate why considerations of both context and community are critical to advance understanding of SEEs. We contribute to the study of SEEs by presenting a new conceptual framework and theorizing SEE as an evolving composite of interdependent actors who interact and collaborate across multiple levels to collectively generate positive externalities and drive sustainable solutions to social problems.","PeriodicalId":48193,"journal":{"name":"Business & Society","volume":"62 1","pages":"1069 - 1102"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48696230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Why Social Enterprises Resist or Collectively Improve Impact Assessment: The Role of Prior Organizational Experience and “Impact Lock-In”","authors":"Jarrod Ormiston","doi":"10.1177/00076503221120568","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00076503221120568","url":null,"abstract":"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 impact assessment practices or how prior experience with impact assessment may shape organizational responses. The study draws on interviews with practitioners involved in social enterprise–impact investor dyads in Australia and the United Kingdom. The findings reveal that social enterprises enact either combative or collaborative responses in their relationships with impact investors based on past experiences with impact assessment. The study shows how more experienced social enterprises reach a state of impact lock-in—where they become committed to particular approaches to understanding, measuring, and reporting impact. The article contributes to the literature on impact assessment and impact investment by showing how organizational experience shapes divergent reactions to the demands imposed by impact investors, creating complementary forces of institutionalization and contestation of impact assessment practice.","PeriodicalId":48193,"journal":{"name":"Business & Society","volume":"62 1","pages":"989 - 1030"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44598848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Implications of Overwhelmed Leadership: How Executive Job Demands Hinder Corporate Sustainability Performance","authors":"Manish Popli, Mehul Raithatha","doi":"10.1177/00076503221120570","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00076503221120570","url":null,"abstract":"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 corporate sustainability performance. The current study tests this effect, along with the impact of two contextual factors, to reveal that the negative influence of executive job demands is weaker if firms feature greater functional diversity and average tenure in their top management teams. In an extension of upper echelon theory, this study also outlines the influence of task challenges that confront strategic leaders on corporate sustainability performance.","PeriodicalId":48193,"journal":{"name":"Business & Society","volume":"62 1","pages":"1031 - 1068"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46459128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gary M. Fleischman, S. Valentine, M. Curtis, P. Mohapatra
{"title":"The Influence of Ethical Beliefs and Attitudes, Norms, and Prior Outcomes on Cybersecurity Investment Decisions","authors":"Gary M. Fleischman, S. Valentine, M. Curtis, P. Mohapatra","doi":"10.1177/00076503221110156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00076503221110156","url":null,"abstract":"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 ethical trade-offs that have both business and societal implications. We employ a 2 × 2 randomized experiment that varies both an observed scenario CFO’s investment decision (invest/not invest in security) and organizational outcomes (positive/negative) to investigate these trade-offs. Participant managers assess the observed CFO’s investment behavior and indicate their own intentions to invest. Results indicate that when the observed scenario CFO invests in security, managers primarily follow their peers when making investment decisions. However, when the observed CFO does not invest in security, managers make their own decisions by engaging in more in-depth reasoning that includes assessment of the seriousness of consequences, as well as the ethical and societal considerations. Moderated mediation findings further deconstruct and corroborate these relationships.","PeriodicalId":48193,"journal":{"name":"Business & Society","volume":"62 1","pages":"488 - 529"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44727216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Influence of Strategic Disclosure on Corporate Climate Performance Ratings","authors":"Patrick J. Callery","doi":"10.1177/00076503221115715","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00076503221115715","url":null,"abstract":"In response to demand from investors and other stakeholders, companies have increased voluntary disclosure of climate change-related policies and performance. Information intermediaries have correspondingly emerged to provide needed credibility and commensurability of climate disclosures. However, the provision of performance ratings and lax audit capabilities creates opportunities for firms to manipulate those ratings for impression management. This article explains how firms may attain an intermediary’s favorable assessment of climate performance using varied methods of strategic disclosure. Using data from a prominent climate intermediary (CDP, formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project), I find that strategic disclosure is widespread and effective in attaining higher ratings, particularly through disclosure of forward-looking factors, suggesting that ratings may not be an accurate indicator of a firm’s true underlying performance. This article contributes to commensuration and impression management literatures, offers guidance for mechanism design to improve the reliability of intermediated voluntary disclosure, and highlights important areas for future research.","PeriodicalId":48193,"journal":{"name":"Business & Society","volume":"62 1","pages":"950 - 988"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46922914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From the Substantive to the Ceremonial: Exploring Interrelations Between Recognition and Aspirational CSR Talk","authors":"Hannah Trittin-Ulbrich","doi":"10.1177/00076503221114795","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00076503221114795","url":null,"abstract":"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 of themselves as morally responsible social actors. Through an in-depth case study, I show how a firm’s varied experiences of stakeholder recognition for its corporate social responsibility (CSR) efforts alternately facilitated and hindered the performativity of its aspirational CSR talk through two key processes: (a) a recognition-attainment process whereby the experience of stakeholder recognition helped turn aspirational CSR talk into “substantive” talk with the performative potential to catalyze other CSR practices; and (b) a subsequent recognition-commodification process induced by a perceived misrecognition that ultimately rendered such talk “ceremonial.” Elucidating stakeholder recognition as an undertheorized boundary condition of aspirational CSR talk, this study adds to performative approaches to CSR communication. It further contributes to research on recognition by demonstrating the explanatory potential of Axel Honneth’s notion of recognition in researching business and society interactions.","PeriodicalId":48193,"journal":{"name":"Business & Society","volume":"62 1","pages":"917 - 949"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44665139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}