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Business & Society aims to be the leading, peer-reviewed outlet for scholarly work dealing specifically with the intersection of business and society.

25/09/2025

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Read this new Commentary by Thomas Fewer, Meg L. Small and Linda Bixby proposing a radical redesign of business education with human flourishing as the guiding principle to cultivate leaders who are not only skilled in technical competencies but also in addressing broader social responsibilities.

Read the full commentary here: https://doi.org/10.1177/00076503251340762

23/09/2025

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Check out this Commentary by Tulin Dzhengiz, Minna Halme, Iqra Sadaf Khan, and Maryline Kiptoo, suggesting alternative approaches that support ethical, contextually grounded research in the Global South.

Read the full commentary here: https://doi.org/10.1177/00076503251340755

17/09/2025

Call for Papers!

We invite you to submit your best work to the Special Issue “Artificial Intelligence, Business, and Epochal Change" curated by guest editors Glen Whelan, Gabriel Weber, Yann Truong, and BAS editor Simon Pek.

The Special Issue aims to develop conceptually sophisticated perspectives on the dual-position that business occupies with regards to artificial intelligence and epochal change. Rather than focusing on lower, more specific, levels of analysis – e.g., AI and organizational efficiency, AI and human resources, AI and privacy – the guest editors invite submissions that seek to account for the full richness of AI’s impacts by adopting a higher-order point of view. As a result, they encourage submissions that employ a philosophical interdisciplinary approach so as to further our understanding of the two positions that business occupies with regards to AI and epochal change, and which they respectively outline in more detail in the call for papers (see link below).

Special Issue timeline:

Online pre-submission workshop (participation optional): April/May 2026
Submission window will be open from September 1 – September 30, 2026
Online post-submission workshop (tentative, participation optional): January/February 2027

Read more about the special issue here:https://journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/PDF/BAS%20Final%20Call%20for%20Papers%20-%20AI%20and%20Epochal%20Change-1753160955.pdf

15/09/2025

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What drives values conflict between firms and their stakeholders and how do firms seek to maintain values fidelity in response? Simon Oldham, Paul du Gay (Royal Holloway, University of London) and Laura Spence (King’s College London) identify three drivers of values conflict—values salience, values hypocrisy, and values praxis non-conformity—and a range of responses that firms seek to enact to ensure that values fidelity is maintained.

Read the full paper Open Access here:
https://doi.org/10.1177/00076503251332223

12/09/2025

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Through interviews with 20 B Corp leaders, Alice Klettner, Dilek Cetindamar, and Rosemary Sainty (University of Technology Sydney) explore how a stakeholder-inclusive approach to corporate governance is implemented. They find that an organization-specific corporate purpose helps leaders to attract, select, and retain supportive stakeholders and minimize stakeholder conflicts. In their study, they identify three decision-making processes (Establishing, Applying, Developing) and three signaling processes (Announcing, Demonstrating, Sharing) through which stakeholder governance is achieved.

Read more in the open-access article here: https://doi.org/10.1177/00076503251335777

09/09/2025

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How do government characteristics affect the legitimacy of state ownership in public perception? Using the data from 95 countries, Ilya Okhmatovskiy and Tomás Nieto de Castro (Nova School of Business and Economics, Universidade Nova de Lisboa) demonstrate that the legitimacy of state ownership is greater in countries with authoritarian governments and in countries with governments incapable of maintaining the strong rule of law. As for the government effectiveness in providing public services, its relationships with the state ownership legitimacy are nonlinear—at the low levels of public services, their improvements are associated with a more favourable perception of state ownership, but this positive effect gradually fades away and turns negative when the quality of public services increases beyond the average values.

Read the full paper Open Access here: https://doi.org/10.1177/00076503251326807

08/09/2025

The Submission window for the special issue "Commons at a New Frontier: Pushing the Boundaries of Commons Research in Business and Society" is now open!

This special issue with guest editors Tina Dacin, Camille Meyer, Mustafa Ozbilgin, Maxim Voronov, Eugenia Xing, and BAS-editor Céline Louche aims to set a new agenda and open new avenues for research on commons in business and society. While the scope of the issue is broad, covering different facets of commons in business and society, here are some illustrative themes:

- Integrating and Promoting Commons in Businesses, Governments, and Communities
- Negotiating Commons in Business and Society
- the New Frontiers of Commons Enclosure and Resistance
- Revisiting Commons with Inclusive and Relational Perspectives

Special Issue timeline:
The submission window will be open until 31 October 2025
Post-submission workshop (participation optional) March 2026

Learn more:https://journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cmscontent/BAS/CFP%20BAS%20Commons%20SI%20Proposal%20FINAL-2-1730152109.pdf

05/09/2025

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How can firms’ CSR initiatives targeting secondary stakeholders yield financial benefits? New research by Di Fan (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Chengyong Xiao (University of Groningen), Xun Tong (The University of Manchester), Yan Shao (University of Amsterdam), and T. C. E. Cheng (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) suggests that firms can strengthen positive shareholder value by engaging in long-term or business-related community development initiatives (CDIs). They propose that firms with strong social management capabilities can achieve greater increases in shareholder value through CDIs.

Read the full paper Open Access here: https://doi.org/10.1177/00076503251329762

02/09/2025

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Read this new study by Steve Kennedy (Erasmus University), Sylvia Grewatsch (Brock University), Lara Liboni (Ivey Business School, University of Western Ontario) and Luciana Oranges Cezarino (University of Venice) introducing a learning framework for a systems approach to sustainability management education that leverages theoretical concepts of systems thinking.

The full paper is available Open Access here: https://doi.org/10.1177/00076503251324569

01/09/2025

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Check out this new Commentary by Ahmad Faraz Khan and Irna Ishrat (Aligarh Muslim University), which advocates recognizing the ontological significance of “home” by adopting epistemic compassion in research on home-based work. The authors propose three pathways for business and society scholars to meaningfully engage with this phenomenon in both research and practice.

Read the full commentary Free Access here: https://doi.org/10.1177/00076503251329260

28/08/2025

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How are private rules translated while disseminated in an industry and its supply chain? What are the implications for corporate accountability practices? To answer these questions, Sabina Du Rietz Dahlström (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, School of Business Örebro University), Erik Hysing (School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences, Örebro University), Ulrika Eriksson, and Ingrid Ericson Jogsten (School of Science and Technology, Örebro University) investigate corporate efforts to control chemicals in the Swedish food packaging industry and supply chain, using the example of accountability for PFAS in paperboard packaging.

Read this new research Open Access here: https://doi.org/10.1177/00076503251325713

26/08/2025

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What shapes the negative evaluations of an organization: hybrid form, market logic, or both? Recent work by Jared L. Peifer (Franklin & Marshall College) and Jing Liu (Northern Kentucky University) suggests that the focus of the scholarly field on market logic is consequential because we find moral evaluations of market logic tend to reduce one’s intent to transact with the organization.

Learn more here: https://doi.org/10.1177/00076503251324062

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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

Hari Bapuji, University of Melbourne, Australia

Jill Brown, Bentley University, USA

Colin Higgins, Deakin University, Australia

Kathleen Rehbein, Marquette University, USA

Andrew Spicer, University of South Carolina, USA

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Duane Windsor, Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University, USA

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Virginia Gerde, School of Business and Accounting, Furman University, USA

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