Journal of Management Development: Volume 36 Issue 1

Innovation for development and poverty reduction: an integrative literature review

Mario Pansera, Fabien Martinez

The purpose of this paper is to develop a critical analysis of the innovation discourse, arguing that a more contextualised understanding of the challenges of innovation for…

Sustainable management models: innovating through Permaculture

Claudio Vitari, Christophe David

Exploring the ways in which innovation can serve to create better and more integrated social, environmental, and economic enterprises is a key challenge. How firms innovate and…

Innovation for sustainability: a conceptual framework

Rosa Caiazza

Most articles in the field of management evidence that knowledge transfer enhances firms’ innovation, productivity and employment. Despite of the amount of studies a…

Social business model design and implementation in developing countries: Learning from an affordable medicine developed in Burkina Faso

Valerie Sabatier, Ignace Medah, Peter Augsdorfer, Anthony Maduekwe

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the emergent research on social business models by revealing challenges encountered by the design and implementation of such business…

Should pharmaceutical companies engage in corporate social responsibility?

Maung Min, Francois Desmoulins-Lebeault, Mark Esposito

The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether corporate social responsibility (CSR) really adds value to corporate financial performance (CFP) in the pharmaceutical…

The open source guild: creating more sustainable enterprise?

Justin Larner, Keith Cheverst, Matthew MacDonald, Cefn Hoile, Angus Soutar

The purpose of this paper is to report on an action research project with two emergent micro-businesses that explored how their business model connected with the principles of…

Business-led sustainable consumption initiatives: impacts and lessons learned

Nancy Bocken

To mitigate negative human-induced impact on the planet, consumption patterns need to be changed urgently. The purpose of this paper is to investigate how companies can drive…

Emerging role of for-profit social enterprises at the base of the pyramid: the case of Selco

Sandeep Goyal, Bruno S. Sergi, Amit Kapoor

The purpose of this paper is to analyze and understand the business logic of the for-profit social enterprises targeting the basic needs of the base of the pyramid (BoP) segment…

Modeling and performance evaluation of agility coupled with sustainability for business planning

Adarsh Kumar Singh, Sekar Vinodh

Agility and sustainability are different manufacturing paradigms. Ideally, companies should merge the two concepts so as to enhance competitive advantage. Agility, which has…

Knowledge sharing relevance in social responsibility partnerships

Mariana Galvão Lyra, Ricardo Corrêa Gomes, Miriam Magdala Pinto

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) departments are often involved with civil society organizations (CSOs) through partnerships in order to develop projects. There are valuable…