OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Business & Society is 2. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Corporate Social Responsibility: Perspectives on the CSR Construct’s Development and Future	188
Corporate Governance Meets Corporate Social Responsibility: Mapping the Interface	186
Stakeholder Engagement: Past, Present, and Future	160
Toward a Theoretical Framework of Corporate Social Irresponsibility: Clarifying the Gray Zones Between Responsibility and Irresponsibility	43
An Integrative Literature Review of Social Entrepreneurship Research: Mapping the Literature and Future Research Directions	38
How Social Ventures Grow: Understanding the Role of Philanthropic Grants in Scaling Social Entrepreneurship	37
The CSR Imperative: How CSR Influences Word-of-Mouth Considering the Roles of Authenticity and Alternative Attractiveness	28
Social Value Creation in Institutional Voids: A Business Model Perspective	25
Keeping Up With the Joneses: Role of CSR Awards in Incentivizing Non-Winners’ CSR	25
Entrepreneurship and Peacebuilding: A Review and Synthesis	23
Applying a Sustainable Business Model Lens to Mutual Value Creation With Base of the Pyramid Suppliers	21
Three Different Approaches to Impact: Translating, Cocreating, and Performing	21
Managing Competing Demands: Coping With the Inclusiveness–Efficiency Paradox in Cross-Sector Partnerships	20
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Leveraging Management Research on Grand Challenges	20
Entrepreneurship, Conflict, and Peace: The Role of Inclusion and Value Creation	18
Human Rights: A Promising Perspective for Business & Society	18
Corporate Environmental Governance Strategies Under the Dual Supervision of the Government and the Public	17
Broad or Narrow Stakeholder Management? A Signaling Theory Perspective	17
An Eye for Artificial Intelligence: Insights Into the Governance of Artificial Intelligence and Vision for Future Research	17
Advancing a Contextualized, Community-Centric Understanding of Social Entrepreneurial Ecosystems	16
Organizing Means–Ends Decoupling: Core–Compartment Separations in Fast Fashion	16
The Moral Relationality of Professionalism Discourses: The Case of Corporate Social Responsibility Practitioners in South Korea	15
Climate Change, Business, and Society: Building Relevance in Time and Space	15
Efficient, Explicatory, and Equitable: Why Qualitative Researchers Should Embrace AI, but Cautiously	15
The Grand Challenge of Human Health: A Review and an Urgent Call for Business–Health Research	14

Standing on the Shoulders of Goffman: Advancing a Relational Research Agenda on Stigma	14
What We Talk About When We Talk About Stakeholders	14
A Processual Model of CEO Activism: Activities, Frames, and Phases	14
Business School Rankings: The Financial Times’ Experience and Evolutions	14
If You are Serious About Impact, Create a Personal Impact Development Plan	14
Human Rights in the Oil and Gas Industry: When Are Policies and Practices Enough to Prevent Abuse?	14
Democracy in Political Corporate Social Responsibility: A Dynamic, Multilevel Account	13
Revolution From Above? Female Directors’ Equality-Related Actions in Organizations	13
Did India’s CSR Mandate Enhance or Diminish Firm Value?	13
The Influence of Strategic Disclosure on Corporate Climate Performance Ratings	12
Cognitive Frames of Poverty and Tension Handling in Base-of-the-Pyramid Business Models	12
Why Rankings Appear Natural (But Aren’t)	12
Defining Value in Sustainable Business Models	11
Whom to Ask for Feedback: Insights for Resource Mobilization From Social Entrepreneurship	11
The Instrumentalization of CSR by Rent-Seeking Governments: Lessons From Tanzania	11
Finding the Tipping Point: When Heterogeneous Evaluations in Social Media Converge and Influence Organizational Legitimacy	11
Questioning Impact: A Cross-Disciplinary Review of Certification Standards for Sustainability	11
The Evolving Political Marketplace: Revisiting 60 Years of Theoretical Dominance Through a Review of Corporate Political Activity Scholarship in Business & Society and Major Management Jour	11
Coordinated Enactment: How Organizational Departments Work Together to Implement CSR	10
Toward a Professions-Based Understanding of Ethical and Responsible Lobbying	10
Moral CSR	10
Useful Servant or Dangerous Master? Technology in Business and Society Debates	10
Numbers Speak for Themselves, or Do They? On Performance Measurement and Its Implications	10
From the Substantive to the Ceremonial: Exploring Interrelations Between Recognition and Aspirational CSR Talk	10
Where, When, and Who: Corporate Social Responsibility and Brand Value—A Global Panel Study	10
Capabilities of Bottom of the Pyramid Organizations	9
How Not to Turn the Grand Challenges Literature Into a Tower of Babel?	9
Demystifying Essays as an “A-Typical” Publication Format	9
From the Editors: Introducing Business & Society Commentary	9
Caste-Based Discrimination, Microfinance Credit Scores, and Microfinance Loan Approvals Among Females in India	9
Are They Really a New Species? Exploring the Emergence of Social Entrepreneurs Through Giddens’s Structuration Theory	9
Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Tweets: Do Shareholders Care?	8
What’s Next for the Quantified Scholar? Impact, Metrics, and (Social) Media	8
Why Social Enterprises Resist or Collectively Improve Impact Assessment: The Role of Prior Organizational Experience and “Impact Lock-In”	8
Optimism Amid Despair: How to Avoid a Net-Zero Debacle	8
#Activism: Investor Reactions to Corporate Sociopolitical Activism	8
Inequality and Entrepreneurial Agency: How Social Class Origins Affect Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy	8
Broadening Our Understanding of Human Resource Management for Improved Environmental Performance	8
Meaningfulness and Impact of Academic Research: Bringing the Global South to the Forefront	7
ESG Leaders or Laggards? A Configurational Analysis of ESG Performance	7
Corporate Governance and Corporate Political Responsibility	7
Cultivating Sustainability Thinkers: Analyzing the Routes to Psychological Ownership in Local Business Units of Multinational Enterprises (MNEs)	7
Involving, Countering, and Overlooking Stakeholder Networks in Soft Regulation: Case Study of a Small-to-Medium-Sized Enterprise’s Implementation of SA8000	7
Enacting a Grand Challenge for Business and Society: Theorizing Issue Maturation in the Media-Based Public Discourse on COVID-19 in Three National Contexts	7
The Targeted “Solution” in the Spotlight: How a Product Focus Influences Collective Action Within and Beyond Cross-Sector Partnerships	7
Building on Its Past: The Future of Business and Society Scholarship	6
Moving Beyond Sisyphus: Pursuing Sustainable Development in a Business-as-Usual World	6
The Influence of Ethical Beliefs and Attitudes, Norms, and Prior Outcomes on Cybersecurity Investment Decisions	6
Tolls, Schools, and Tips: The Reproduction of Social Inequality Through Day-to-Day Practices	6
How Collaborating with NGOs Makes Green Innovations More Desirable	6

In Praise of Involvement	5
The Irrationality of Rationality in Market Economics: A Paradox of Incentives Perspective	5
Strengthening Deliberation in Business: Learning From Aristotle’s Ethics of Deliberation	5
Why the Super-Rich Will Not Be Saving the World: Philanthropy and “Privatization Creep” in Global Development	5
New Perspectives on Base of the Pyramid Strategies	5
How Social Inequalities Shape Markets: Lessons From the Configuration of PET Recycling Practices in Brazil	5
Co-opting Business Models at the Base of the Pyramid (BOP): Microentrepreneurs and Multinational Enterprises in Ghana	5
A Moral Foundations Framing Approach: Retail Investors’ Investment Intention in Ethical Mutual Funds	5
Political CSR and Populism: Toward an Information-Based Theory of Political CSR	5
When the Right Thing to Do Is Also the Wrong Thing: Moral Sensemaking of Responsible Business Behavior During the COVID-19 Crisis	5
Grand Challenges and Female Leaders: An Exploration of Relational Leadership During the COVID-19 Pandemic	5
From Nirvana to Shiva in Impact Investing: Value (In)congruence in Investor–Investee Relationships	4
Governance and Business-Society Relations in Areas of Limited Statehood: An Introduction	4
Predisposed, Exposed, or Both? How Prosocial Motivation and CSR Education Are Related to Prospective Employees’ Desire for Social Impact in Work	4
Public Health and Political Corporate Social Responsibility: Pharmaceutical Company Engagement in COVAX	4
Who Do I Want to Be Now That I’m Here? Refugee Entrepreneurs, Identity, and Acculturation	4
Bribe Payments and State Ownership: The Impact of State Ownership on Bribery Propensity and Intensity	4
Big Profits, Big Harm? Exploring the Link Between Firm Financial Performance and Human Rights Misbehavior	4
Everyday Talk on Twitter: Informal Deliberation About (Ir-)responsible Business Conduct in Social Media Arenas	4
More Than an Umbrella Construct: We Can (and Should) Do Better With CSR by Theorizing Through Context	4
A Responsibility to Whom? Populism and Its Effects on Corporate Social Responsibility	4
Role Morality Discrepancy and Ethical Purchasing: Exploring Felt Responsibility in Professional and Personal Contexts	3
How to Choose the Right Partners in Cross-Sector Partnership in Emerging Countries? A Political Embeddedness Perspective	3
Alternative Organizations as Systems Hijacking: The Commercial Trust as a Thought Experiment	3
Implications of Overwhelmed Leadership: How Executive Job Demands Hinder Corporate Sustainability Performance	3
Making Impact Investing More Than Just Well-Meaning Capital	3
In Defense of Capitalism: Modern Slavery Would Be Much Worse Without It	3
Do Firms Adjust Corporate Social Responsibility Engagement After a Focal Change in Credit Ratings?	3
Majority-Minority Boards of Directors and Decision Making: The Effects of Homophily on Lending Decisions	3
Strengthening or Restricting? Explaining the Covid-19 Pandemic’s Configurational Effects on Companies’ Sustainability Strategies and Practices	3
Working For Impact, But Failing to Experience It: Exploring Individuals’ Sensemaking in Social Enterprises	3
Understanding German Consumers’ Intention to Adopt COVID-19 Infection Prevention Measures: A Moral Decoupling Perspective	3
From Responsible Scholarship to Responsible Scholar	3
Navigating Populism: A Study of How German and Swedish Corporations Articulate the Refugee Situation in 2015–2016	2
Advisory Governance Policy, Shareholder Voice, and Board Responsiveness: The Case of Majority Vote in Director Elections	2
Corporate Social Responsibility and Directors’ and Officers’ Liability Risk: The Moderating Effect of Risk Environment and Growth Potential	2
The Role of Partnership Portfolios for Sustainability in Addressing the Stability-Change Paradox: Dong/Orsted’s Transition From Fossil Fuels to Renewables	2
Navigating Disruptive Times: How Cross-Sector Partnerships in a Development Context Built Resilience During the COVID-19 Pandemic Outbreak	2
Scorched Earth: Employers’ Breached Trust in Refugees’ Labor Market Integration	2
Being Reassuring About the Past While Promising a Better Future: How Companies Frame Temporal Focus in Social Responsibility Reporting	2
As Clear as Black and White: Racially Disparate Concerns Over Career Progression for Remote Workers Across Racial Faultlines	2
Moral Intensity, Perceived Impacts, and Task Motivation: Evidence From Volunteers	2
Corporate Philanthropy and CEO Outside Directorships Under Authoritarian Capitalism	2
Corporate Accountability for Human Rights: Evidence From Conflict Mineral Ratings	2
Power in the Process of Reversing Mission Drift in Hybrid Organizations: The Case of a French Multinational Worker Co-operative	2
Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Outcomes and Municipal Credit Risk	2
Value Creation for Refugees by Social Partnerships: A Frames Perspective	2
Multistakeholder Benefits: A Meta-Analysis of Different Theories	2
The Effect of Country Economic Institutions and Cultural Values on Government Policy and Societal Compliance in the Covid-19 Pandemic	2
Circular Economy and Business Models: Managing Efficiency in Waste Recycling Firms	2