Society and Business Review: Volume 19 Issue 3

Religious-ethnic entrepreneurs planting seeds: a novel research agenda

Clara Margaça, Donizete Rodrigues

The relationship between ethnicity, religion and entrepreneurship is an emerging field, and an extremely important topic, considering the influence of these drivers on people’s…

Organizational stakeholders and environmental sustainability investment: does China’s regional heterogeneity matter?

Fahad Khalid, Khwaja Naveed, Cosmina Lelia Voinea, Petru L. Curseu, Sun Xinhui

Given the regional diversity in China, this study aims to provide an empirical evaluation of how organizational stakeholders (i.e. customers, employees, suppliers and…

Environmental catastrophes and organizational ambidexterity: lessons from the Covid-19 experience

Md Kamrul Hasan, Derrick D'Souza

Taking an organizational perspective, this paper aims to understand how organizations respond to such strong and concurrent societal effects, and to answer the question, “How…

Ethical decision-making in East Africa: predictors of whistleblowing intention

Meysam Manesh, Assad Tavakoli, Adebukola E. Oyewunmi, Soma Pillay

This paper aims to understand employees’ propensity to blow the whistle in two East African countries. This study develops a model of ethical decision-making (EDM) to assist…

Can money buy happiness? Bribery practices and ethical awareness in emerging markets

Chomsorn Tangdenchai, Asda Chintakananda

This study aims to examine the relationships among senior managers’ reports of bribery practices, ethical awareness and firm productivity in Thailand. Bribery pervasiveness is…

The idea of adaptation in transaction cost economics: an application to stakeholder theory

Vladislav Valentinov, Constantine Iliopoulos

Transaction cost economics sees a broad spectrum of governance structures spanned by two types of economic adaptation: autonomous and cooperative. Stakeholder theorists have drawn…

Corporate culture, corporate governance, and independent directors: evidence from textual analysis

Pattanaporn Chatjuthamard, Pornsit Jiraporn, Merve Kilic, Ali Uyar

Taking advantage of a unique measure of corporate culture obtained from advanced machine learning algorithms, this study aims to explore how corporate culture strength is…

Corporate social innovation: a systematic literature review and research agenda

Mennatallah Morsy, Paul Trott, Daniel Sunghwan Cho

The new concept of corporate social innovation (CSI) has witnessed a steady growth in the business and management academic world over the past 20 years. Yet its adoption by…