Business HorizonsPub Date : 2025-10-04DOI: 10.1016/S0007-6813(25)00152-1
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Business HorizonsPub Date : 2025-08-21DOI: 10.1016/S0007-6813(25)00120-X
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Business HorizonsPub Date : 2025-08-21DOI: 10.1016/j.bushor.2025.04.001
Idalene F. Kesner
{"title":"Honoring a special contributor: The first Lifetime Achievement for Contributions to Business Horizons award","authors":"Idalene F. Kesner","doi":"10.1016/j.bushor.2025.04.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bushor.2025.04.001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48347,"journal":{"name":"Business Horizons","volume":"68 5","pages":"Pages 543-544"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144890227","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}
Business HorizonsPub Date : 2025-08-08DOI: 10.1016/j.bushor.2025.08.001
Christine Everett
{"title":"Turning environmental, social, and governance (ESG) theory into action: An interview with Staci Curtis","authors":"Christine Everett","doi":"10.1016/j.bushor.2025.08.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bushor.2025.08.001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48347,"journal":{"name":"Business Horizons","volume":"68 6","pages":"Pages 715-718"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145223600","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}
Business HorizonsPub Date : 2025-08-05DOI: 10.1016/j.bushor.2025.07.009
Stephanie Lu Wang , M.K. Chin , Norman T. Sheehan
{"title":"From principles to practice: Developing actionable environmental, social, and governance (ESG) frameworks","authors":"Stephanie Lu Wang , M.K. Chin , Norman T. Sheehan","doi":"10.1016/j.bushor.2025.07.009","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bushor.2025.07.009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48347,"journal":{"name":"Business Horizons","volume":"68 6","pages":"Pages 699-707"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145223598","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":"How ESG configurations are linked to family firm performance: Winning combinations and what to avoid—Evidence from Spain","authors":"Josep Llach , Erola Palau-Pinyana , Valeriano Sánchez-Famoso","doi":"10.1016/j.bushor.2025.07.011","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bushor.2025.07.011","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The growing importance of ESG (environmental, social, and governance) pillars, fueled by global concerns about climate change, is pushing private businesses to take on social and environmental responsibilities beyond mere economic profit. Family firms (FFs) are prominent players worldwide, accounting for 80%–90% of all businesses globally. They are also at the forefront of the private sector in integrating ESG pillars, seemingly driven by their socioemotional wealth (SEW), as they seek to enhance their legitimacy through active participation in ESG practices. But the combinations of ESG pillars that are linked to overall business performance remain uncertain. Findings from a configurational approach based on a sample of 298 Spanish FFs reveal that not all pillars of ESG have the same prominence. In short, we detect six key configurations linked to stronger innovation and financial outcomes. Notably, strong social and governance practices are associated with higher family business performance, while environmental investments may have less immediate financial impact unless paired with other ESG pillars. In addition, none of the configurations include all three ESG pillars simultaneously. Finally, two configurations are identified for FFs to avoid, as they are associated with lower business performance.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48347,"journal":{"name":"Business Horizons","volume":"68 6","pages":"Pages 729-742"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145223602","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}
Business HorizonsPub Date : 2025-08-05DOI: 10.1016/j.bushor.2025.07.012
Sigvald Harryson , Rafal Dudkowski
{"title":"Cocreating breakthroughs in sustainability: Implications for global business leaders","authors":"Sigvald Harryson , Rafal Dudkowski","doi":"10.1016/j.bushor.2025.07.012","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bushor.2025.07.012","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article examines how multinational corporations (MNCs) can cocreate breakthroughs addressing grand challenges in sustainability through a novel approach integrating sustainability-oriented innovation (SOI), open innovation (OI), and collaborative competition among five to 10 prequalified teams of senior researchers from a diverse and inclusive range of universities all focused on solving the same challenge. Traditionally, MNCs like BASF, Unilever, and Kraft Heinz have relied on bilateral research collaborations with top-25 universities, yielding incremental progress published in papers but not breakthroughs commercialized with SOI impact. But the rapid rise of sustainability challenges requires so much SOI impact that more holistic and integrated approaches to SOI and OI are required, approaches that engage a wider and more inclusive selection of university teams and that combine collaboration and competition for accelerated cocreation and commercialization. We propose a strategic framework that merges SOI and OI principles into university-catalyzed collaborative competitions. The strategic framework is illustrated through three cases describing how BASF, Unilever, and Kraft Heinz have cocreated radical solutions to grand sustainability challenges. Our analysis and synthesis of the new collaborative-competition model provide managerial and academic insights into how collaborative competitions can be established and performed to enable MNCs to more effectively solve grand sustainability challenges.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48347,"journal":{"name":"Business Horizons","volume":"68 6","pages":"Pages 743-757"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145223603","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}
Business HorizonsPub Date : 2025-08-05DOI: 10.1016/j.bushor.2025.07.010
Christine Everett
{"title":"Turning environmental, social, and governance (ESG) theory into action: An interview with Wendy Krause","authors":"Christine Everett","doi":"10.1016/j.bushor.2025.07.010","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bushor.2025.07.010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48347,"journal":{"name":"Business Horizons","volume":"68 6","pages":"Pages 709-713"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145223599","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}