Social Responsibility
Ethics
Innovation
Helping Business Help Society: Overcoming Barriers to Corporate Social Innovation
This special issue intends to help corporations do better at doing good. I have brought together ten articles from leading business scholars that, from a...
Social Responsibility
Sustainability
Entrepreneurship
Prosocial Ventures: Meaning Well and Thinking Good Thoughts Are Nice, But Not Enough
Recent research on creating and leading prosocial ventures suggests that they are more likely to be successful if founders: 1. Do not count on the fact that...
Social Responsibility
Brand Management
Sustainability
When Being Good Backfires: Overcoming Misfits Between Brand and Corporate Social Responsibility
Drawing on research in branding and consumer behavior, this paper examines situations in which a lack of fit in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities...
Ethics
Social Responsibility
Dirty Money: Some Ethical Questions About Donating to Charity
This article is a thought piece designed to generate questions about the reciprocal relationship between a gift giver and receiver.
Social Responsibility
Innovation
Sustainability
Making Sure Corporate Social Innovations Do Social Good
Corporate social innovations are designed to benefit firms and society. Much like any innovation, corporate social innovations can backfire and quickly draw...
Social Responsibility
Leadership
Management
Designing Better CSR Initiatives
Are Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives providing the societal good they promise? After decades of CSR research, it appears to occur only rarely...
Social Responsibility
Leadership
Management
Transforming Business Purposes and Practices: The Need for a Systems Approach
Given the huge issues facing the world—and businesses—today, the need for purposeful transformation towards something like wellbeing for all has never been more...
Social Responsibility
Ethics
How Do Firms That Are Changing the World Engage Politically?
The objective of this study is to contribute conceptually and empirically to the discussion about when firms attempt to align their political efforts with their...
Social Responsibility
Ethics
Profiting from Protecting Small Business Borrowers: Take That to the Bank!
While small businesses represent a significant portion of the economy, there is mounting evidence that the playing field is not level for these firms in access...
Case
Social Responsibility
Human Resources
Restoring Dignity with Open Hiring: Greyston Bakery and The Recognition of Value
In contrast to the notion of value creation as the focus for social innovation, we present a dignity-based approach to management that illuminates the potential...
Leadership
Social Responsibility
Innovation
Executive Insights: Leading the Way in Corporate Social Innovation – An Interview with Gary M. Cohen
We interviewed Gary M. Cohen, Executive Vice President, Global Health & President of the BD Foundation (Becton, Dickinson and Company).