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ONLINE FIRST! Read this new study by Visa Penttilä, Frank den Hond, Martin Fougère, and Nikodemus Solitander (LUT Univer...
04/07/2025

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Read this new study by Visa Penttilä, Frank den Hond, Martin Fougère, and Nikodemus Solitander (LUT University & Hanken School of Economics) examining how non-governmental organizations and firms can collaborate on a contested CSR issue in lobbying the government to regulate businesses. They identified different mechanisms of decontestation employed by a Finnish cross-sector coalition in lobbying for human rights due diligence regulation.

The full article is available OPEN ACCESS here: https://doi.org/10.1177/00076503251317253

Check out the introductory article to the Special Issue (SI) on "Stakeholder Engagement," where Matthias Wenzel, Hannah ...
30/06/2025

Check out the introductory article to the Special Issue (SI) on "Stakeholder Engagement," where Matthias Wenzel, Hannah Trittin-Ulbrich, Laura Marie Edinger-Schons, Itziar Castelló, and Frank de Bakker discuss participation, inclusion, and democracy as complementary yet incomplete modes of stakeholder engagement and relate them to the articles in this SI. They argue that only by integrating all three modes can one achieve what they call “holistic” stakeholder engagement.

Read the entire introductory article OPEN ACCESS here: https://doi.org/10.1177/00076503251341209

ONLINE FIRST! Does a company's CSR engagement impact the timing of its stock repurchases? How does CSR engagement influe...
27/06/2025

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Does a company's CSR engagement impact the timing of its stock repurchases? How does CSR engagement influence the role of undervaluation as a motive for buybacks? To answer these questions, Nils Bobenhausen, Wolfgang Breuer, Andreas Knetsch, and Luis Maria Siemer (RWTH Aachen University and Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE) make use of an integrated approach combining insights from agency theory and stakeholder theory.

Read the full article OPEN ACCESS here: https://doi.org/10.1177/00076503241310700

ONLINE FIRST! Who joins green coalitions? What are the effects of joining a green coalition on a firm’s behavior? Why d...
26/06/2025

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Who joins green coalitions? What are the effects of joining a green coalition on a firm’s behavior? Why do firms decide to join a green coalition? In his latest work, Juan Pablo González (Universidad de Buenos Aires) explores these important questions.

Find out more here: https://doi.org/10.1177/00076503251315145

How do leaders of multistakeholder social enterprises (MSEs) make sense of the relationship between their expectations a...
24/06/2025

How do leaders of multistakeholder social enterprises (MSEs) make sense of the relationship between their expectations and the reality of stakeholder engagement? How does leader sensemaking inform the enactment of stakeholder engagement strategies? Read this new study by Nevena Radoynovska (emlyon business school), who conducted a qualitative interview study of 28 leaders (founders and/or executives in charge of strategic decisions) of MSEs in France.

Learn more here: https://doi.org/10.1177/00076503231221537

Read new work by Johanna Järvelä (IESEG School of Management), Ville-Pekka Sorsa (University of Helsinki), and Andre Spi...
23/06/2025

Read new work by Johanna Järvelä (IESEG School of Management), Ville-Pekka Sorsa (University of Helsinki), and Andre Spicer (City, University of London), introducing the concept of silent steering to describe how indirect effects on stakeholder engagement occur. To that end, they use the case study of Finnish mining governance from 1995 to 2020.

Learn more here: https://doi.org/10.1177/00076503241274056

When the costs of stakeholder engagement outweigh the benefits, why would organizations engage with stakeholders? Adrien...
20/06/2025

When the costs of stakeholder engagement outweigh the benefits, why would organizations engage with stakeholders? Adrien Billiet, Johan Bruneel, and Frédéric Dufays (KU_Leuven, IESEG School of Management and HEC Liège-ULiège) theorize two additional reasons why it is beneficial.

Read it Open Access: https://doi.org/10.1177/00076503231182612

Read this new study by Verena Bader (Vienna University of Economics and Busines), Anna-Lisa Schneider, Stephan Kaiser, a...
19/06/2025

Read this new study by Verena Bader (Vienna University of Economics and Busines), Anna-Lisa Schneider, Stephan Kaiser, and Georg Loscher (Bundeswehr University Munich) contributing to the relational view on stakeholder engagement by providing insights into practices that shape relationships between heterogeneous stakeholders, explaining how these relational practices influence stakeholder heterogeneity, and identifying unintended impacts of stakeholder engagement.

Available Open Access: https://doi.org/10.1177/00076503241271295

How do the stakeholder engagement efforts intertwine with the prevailing strategy discourse? A new study by Heli Pietilä...
18/06/2025

How do the stakeholder engagement efforts intertwine with the prevailing strategy discourse? A new study by Heli Pietilä, Sari Laari-Salmela, and Vesa Puhakka (Oulu Business School) answers this question by discussing three different modes of participation: inclusion, admittance, and quasi-participation.

Read the full article Open Access here: https://doi.org/10.1177/00076503241255484

The Special Issue (SI) "Stakeholder Engagement: Opening Up Participation, Inclusion, and Democracy" is out now!This exci...
17/06/2025

The Special Issue (SI) "Stakeholder Engagement: Opening Up Participation, Inclusion, and Democracy" is out now!

This exciting edition features five thought-provoking articles by fabulous scholars and an introduction by the guest editors Matthias Wenzel, Hannah Trittin-Ulbrich, Laura Marie Edinger-Schons, Itziar Castello, and Frank de Bakker, setting the stage for critical reflection and pushing the boundaries of how we think about stakeholder engagement.

Start by reading the Introduction to the SI Open Access here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00076503251341209

Learn more about the SI: https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/basa/64/6

ONLINE FIRST! Check out this new work by Julia Bartosch and Nore Lohmeyer (Radboud University) zooming out from the comp...
12/06/2025

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Check out this new work by Julia Bartosch and Nore Lohmeyer (Radboud University) zooming out from the company level to the national institutional level as their main unit of analysis, specifically focusing on what explicitization of CSR at the national institutional level involves and how this process unfolds. Empirically, the study investigates the case of Japan over the past two decades, looking at how the historically implicit notion of CSR has become increasingly explicit.

Read the full article Open Access here: https://doi.org/10.1177/00076503241308725

ONLINE FIRST! How do corporate actors adapt their information strategies in response to stakeholder lobbying tactics thr...
11/06/2025

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How do corporate actors adapt their information strategies in response to stakeholder lobbying tactics throughout different phases of the lobbying process? This new study by Václav Ocelík, Ans Kolk, and Kristina Irion (University of Amsterdam) answers this question by using the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as their empirical setting.

The full article is available Open Access here: https://doi.org/10.1177/00076503241306958

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Business & Society

We are the foremost academic journal that explores issues at the intersection of Business and Society and have been doing so since 1960. Our aim is to be the leading, peer-reviewed outlet for scholarly work. To that end, we publish outstanding research that contributes to developing, testing and refining theory, which enhances our understanding of important societal issues and their relation to business. Business & Society is the official journal of the International Association of Business and Society and a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

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Frank de Bakker, IÉSEG School of Management, France