OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Business & Society is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Corporate Governance Meets Corporate Social Responsibility: Mapping the Interface	148
Corporate Social Responsibility: Perspectives on the CSR Construct’s Development and Future	131
Board Characteristics and Corporate Social Responsibility: A Meta-Analytic Investigation	111
Stakeholder Engagement: Past, Present, and Future	107
Business and Society Research in Times of the Corona Crisis	80
Modern Slavery in Business: The Sad and Sorry State of a Non-Field	78
Linking Sustainable Business Models to Socio-Ecological Resilience Through Cross-Sector Partnerships: A Complex Adaptive Systems View	61
CSR Communication, Corporate Reputation, and the Role of the News Media as an Agenda-Setter in the Digital Age	43
Toward Collaborative Cross-Sector Business Models for Sustainability	42
Mixed-Ownership Reform and Private Firms’ Corporate Social Responsibility Practices: Evidence From China	41
Investigating the Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) on Risk Management Practices	35
How Social Ventures Grow: Understanding the Role of Philanthropic Grants in Scaling Social Entrepreneurship	30
Collaborative Sustainable Business Models: Understanding Organizations Partnering for Community Sustainability	30
Toward a Theoretical Framework of Corporate Social Irresponsibility: Clarifying the Gray Zones Between Responsibility and Irresponsibility	29
Is Doing Bad Always Punished? A Moderated Longitudinal Analysis on Corporate Social Irresponsibility and Firm Value	23
The CSR Imperative: How CSR Influences Word-of-Mouth Considering the Roles of Authenticity and Alternative Attractiveness	23
An Integrative Literature Review of Social Entrepreneurship Research: Mapping the Literature and Future Research Directions	20
Governing Collaborative Value Creation in the Context of Grand Challenges: A Case Study of a Cross-Sectoral Collaboration in the Textile Industry	20
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers Uses Ensemble Storytelling Processes to Overcome Enslavement in Corporate Supply Chains	19
Keeping Up With the Joneses: Role of CSR Awards in Incentivizing Non-Winners’ CSR	18
Three Different Approaches to Impact: Translating, Cocreating, and Performing	17
A Time and Place for Sustainability: A Spatiotemporal Perspective on Organizational Sustainability Frame Development	17
Political Corruption and Cost of Equity	17
Social Value Creation in Institutional Voids: A Business Model Perspective	17
Organizing Means–Ends Decoupling: Core–Compartment Separations in Fast Fashion	16

Managing Competing Demands: Coping With the Inclusiveness–Efficiency Paradox in Cross-Sector Partnerships	15
Applying a Sustainable Business Model Lens to Mutual Value Creation With Base of the Pyramid Suppliers	15
Transitioning Collaborative Cross-Sector Business Models for Sustainability Innovation: Multilevel Tension Management as a Dynamic Capability	14
Human Rights in the Oil and Gas Industry: When Are Policies and Practices Enough to Prevent Abuse?	13
Contextualizing Well-Being for Entrepreneurship	13
Human Rights: A Promising Perspective for Business & Society	13
Climate Change, Business, and Society: Building Relevance in Time and Space	12
Business School Rankings: The Financial Times’ Experience and Evolutions	11
What We Talk About When We Talk About Stakeholders	11
If You are Serious About Impact, Create a Personal Impact Development Plan	11
Business and Society Research Drawing on Institutionalism: Integrating Normative and Descriptive Research on Values	11
U.S. Multinationals and Human Rights: A Theoretical and Empirical Assessment of Extractive Versus Nonextractive Sectors	11
Whom to Ask for Feedback: Insights for Resource Mobilization From Social Entrepreneurship	11
The Moral Relationality of Professionalism Discourses: The Case of Corporate Social Responsibility Practitioners in South Korea	11
Advancing a Contextualized, Community-Centric Understanding of Social Entrepreneurial Ecosystems	11
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Leveraging Management Research on Grand Challenges	11
Corporate Environmental Governance Strategies Under the Dual Supervision of the Government and the Public	11
Why Rankings Appear Natural (But Aren’t)	10
An Eye for Artificial Intelligence: Insights Into the Governance of Artificial Intelligence and Vision for Future Research	10
Revolution From Above? Female Directors’ Equality-Related Actions in Organizations	10
Broad or Narrow Stakeholder Management? A Signaling Theory Perspective	10
Toward a Professions-Based Understanding of Ethical and Responsible Lobbying	10
The Grand Challenge of Human Health: A Review and an Urgent Call for Business–Health Research	10
Democracy in Political Corporate Social Responsibility: A Dynamic, Multilevel Account	9
Entrepreneurship and Peacebuilding: A Review and Synthesis	9
From the Substantive to the Ceremonial: Exploring Interrelations Between Recognition and Aspirational CSR Talk	9
Cognitive Frames of Poverty and Tension Handling in Base-of-the-Pyramid Business Models	9
Entrepreneurship, Conflict, and Peace: The Role of Inclusion and Value Creation	9
The Organization of Short-Sightedness: The Implications of Remaining in Conflict Zones. The Case of Lafarge during Syria’s Civil War	9
How Corruption is Tolerated in the Greek Public Sector: Toward a Second-Order Theory of Normalization	9
Where, When, and Who: Corporate Social Responsibility and Brand Value—A Global Panel Study	8
From the Editors: Introducing Business & Society Commentary	8
How Do Large Purchasing Organizations Treat Their Diverse Suppliers? Minority Business Enterprise CEOs’ Perception of Corporate Commitment to Supplier Diversity	8
Questioning Impact: A Cross-Disciplinary Review of Certification Standards for Sustainability	8
Efficient, Explicatory, and Equitable: Why Qualitative Researchers Should Embrace AI, but Cautiously	8
How Does the Stock Market Value Female Directors? International Evidence	8
Standing on the Shoulders of Goffman: Advancing a Relational Research Agenda on Stigma	8
Something Old, Something New: Continuity and Change at Business & Society	8
Capabilities of Bottom of the Pyramid Organizations	7
What’s Next for the Quantified Scholar? Impact, Metrics, and (Social) Media	7
Executive Migration Matters: The Transfer of CSR Profiles Across Organizations	7
Useful Servant or Dangerous Master? Technology in Business and Society Debates	7
Demystifying Essays as an “A-Typical” Publication Format	7
Finding the Tipping Point: When Heterogeneous Evaluations in Social Media Converge and Influence Organizational Legitimacy	7
A Processual Model of CEO Activism: Activities, Frames, and Phases	7
Did India’s CSR Mandate Enhance or Diminish Firm Value?	7
Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Tweets: Do Shareholders Care?	7
The Evolving Political Marketplace: Revisiting 60 Years of Theoretical Dominance Through a Review of Corporate Political Activity Scholarship inBusiness & Societyand Major Management Journa	7
Coordinated Enactment: How Organizational Departments Work Together to Implement CSR	7
The Instrumentalization of CSR by Rent-Seeking Governments: Lessons From Tanzania	6

Taking the Time to Understand Time at the Bottom/Base of the Pyramid	6
Caste-Based Discrimination, Microfinance Credit Scores, and Microfinance Loan Approvals Among Females in India	6
Are They Really a New Species? Exploring the Emergence of Social Entrepreneurs Through Giddens’s Structuration Theory	6
Examining the Conflicting Consequences of CEO Public Responses to Social Activist Challenges	6
Numbers Speak for Themselves, or Do They? On Performance Measurement and Its Implications	6
Defining Value in Sustainable Business Models	6
Toward Political Explanation of Change in Corporate Responsibility: Political Scholarship on CSR and the Case of Palm Oil Biofuels	6
The Influence of Strategic Disclosure on Corporate Climate Performance Ratings	6
Involving, Countering, and Overlooking Stakeholder Networks in Soft Regulation: Case Study of a Small-to-Medium-Sized Enterprise’s Implementation of SA8000	5
How Not to Turn the Grand Challenges Literature Into a Tower of Babel?	5
Broadening Our Understanding of Human Resource Management for Improved Environmental Performance	5
Building on Its Past: The Future of Business and Society Scholarship	5
The Influence of Ethical Beliefs and Attitudes, Norms, and Prior Outcomes on Cybersecurity Investment Decisions	5
Meaningfulness and Impact of Academic Research: Bringing the Global South to the Forefront	5
The Targeted “Solution” in the Spotlight: How a Product Focus Influences Collective Action Within and Beyond Cross-Sector Partnerships	5
Moral CSR	5
Moving Beyond Sisyphus: Pursuing Sustainable Development in a Business-as-Usual World	5
How Social Inequalities Shape Markets: Lessons From the Configuration of PET Recycling Practices in Brazil	5
Enacting a Grand Challenge for Business and Society: Theorizing Issue Maturation in the Media-Based Public Discourse on COVID-19 in Three National Contexts	4
More Than an Umbrella Construct: We Can (and Should) Do Better With CSR by Theorizing Through Context	4
In Praise of Involvement	4
Inequality and Entrepreneurial Agency: How Social Class Origins Affect Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy	4
Optimism Amid Despair: How to Avoid a Net-Zero Debacle	4
The Irrationality of Rationality in Market Economics: A Paradox of Incentives Perspective	4
When the Right Thing to Do Is Also the Wrong Thing: Moral Sensemaking of Responsible Business Behavior During the COVID-19 Crisis	4
A Moral Foundations Framing Approach: Retail Investors’ Investment Intention in Ethical Mutual Funds	4
Tolls, Schools, and Tips: The Reproduction of Social Inequality Through Day-to-Day Practices	3
Grand Challenges and Female Leaders: An Exploration of Relational Leadership During the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
A Responsibility to Whom? Populism and Its Effects on Corporate Social Responsibility	3
Political CSR and Populism: Toward an Information-Based Theory of Political CSR	3
#Activism: Investor Reactions to Corporate Sociopolitical Activism	3
Community Influential Directors and Corporate Social Performance	3
Manipulating Structure in Institutional Complexity Scenarios: The Case of Strategic Planning in Nonprofits	3
Cultivating Sustainability Thinkers: Analyzing the Routes to Psychological Ownership in Local Business Units of Multinational Enterprises (MNEs)	3
Alternative Organizations as Systems Hijacking: The Commercial Trust as a Thought Experiment	3
Governance and Business-Society Relations in Areas of Limited Statehood: An Introduction	3