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Civic Service Worldwide: Defining a Field, Building a Knowledge Base. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
In this article, the authors summarize results of a global assessment of civic service. Searching by country and using information from organizational memberships, publications, and the Internet, 210 civic service programs were identified in 57 ...
Amanda Moore McBride   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Benefit Corporations: The Moral Legitimacy That Requires More Rules

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines why Italian for‐profit firms convert to Benefit Corporation status and how they navigate the ensuing hybridization. Survey data from 118 companies are interpreted through a pragmatic and moral legitimacy lens. Results show that the main trigger is pragmatic legitimacy: managers seek to strengthen trust with internal and ...
Laura Rocca   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Leadership and Sustainability in a Globalized World: Emerging Trends, Global Contexts, Key Challenges, and Effective Strategies

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This systematic review analyzes 109 studies from top business journals, exploring the connection between leadership and sustainability, including key leadership styles, emerging trends, and challenges in integrating sustainability into organizational strategies and operations.
Muzhar Javed   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Does Accounting Scope 3 Emissions Improve Sustainable Business Outcomes? Evidence From the S&P 500 Technology Companies

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Corporate sustainability efforts increasingly emphasize Scope 3 emissions due to their substantial share of total corporate carbon footprints. However, reporting these emissions remains inconsistent, limiting transparency and comparability across firms.
Nuri C. Onat   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Think Global, Act Local? Fortune 500 Business Strategies for Sustainable Cities and Communities (SDG 11)

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The role of business towards achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has been well established. However, SDG contextualization continues to pose a conundrum, particularly for firms operating in multiple contexts. This becomes even more problematic in the case of SDG 11, the only goal in the sustainable development agenda directly
Andreas Georgiou
wiley   +1 more source

How Supply Networks Influence Sustainable Innovation: Evidence From Ghana's Public Works Procurement

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent environmental and sustainability standards in procurement increase short‐term production and operational costs to suppliers, which are often recouped by charging price premiums for innovative solutions. However, public buyers are less likely to pay such price premiums, resulting in a disincentive among suppliers to bid for innovation ...
Peter Adjei‐Bamfo   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing the Financial Health of Medicaid Managed Care Plans and the Quality of Patient Care They Provide [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Examines the administrative and medical expenses, quality of care, and financial stability of publicly traded health plans contracted to manage the care of Medicaid beneficiaries by plan characteristics and compared with non-publicly traded ...
Michael H. Bailit, Michael J. McCue
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Giving or Greening? Stakeholder Dynamics and Ex‐Military Executives

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Firms increasingly face competing demands from different stakeholder groups, yet little is known about how these demands interact and generate strategic trade‐offs. Drawing on stakeholder theory and upper echelons theory, we investigate whether an overemphasis on philanthropic initiatives can detract from investments in green innovation, and ...
Hyeyoun Park   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Toward an SDG‐Based Typology for US Nonprofits

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent an emerging institutional logic that nonprofits must navigate alongside existing sector‐specific frameworks. Drawing on institutional logics and organizational hybridity theories, we examine how nonprofits incorporate SDGs into their missions and what this reveals about managing institutional ...
Dominik S. Meier, Elizabeth Searing
wiley   +1 more source

The New Governance and the Tools of Public Action: An Introduction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
A fundamental re-thinking is currently underway throughout the world about how to cope with public problems. Stimulated by popular frustrations with the cost and effectiveness of government programs and by a new-found faith in liberal economic theories,
Salamon, Lester M.
core   +1 more source

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