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La dimensión medioambiental y los ODS en la comunicación estratégica de las empresas de triple impacto
Este trabajo analiza la dimensión ambiental y los ODS en la gestión de las relaciones públicas en las empresas de triple...
Human Resource Management in Italian Family-Owned SMEs: Sustaining the Competitive Advantage through B Corp Transformation
This case revolves around Romano Lana, a 50-year-old family-owned medium-sized enterprise located in Tuscany, Italy....
Managing Stakeholders with Corporate Social Responsibility, Course Overview
The document elucidates how robust relationships between companies and stakeholders, cultivated via initiatives in...
Sustainability Advantage Master Slide Decks
These six slide collections represent a valuable resource containing more than 900 slides, offering valuable insights and...
B Corp versus ISO 9001 and 14001 certifications: Aligned, or alternative paths, towards sustainable development?
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) emerged with the aim of providing sustainable economic, environmental, and social...
Better Business: How the B Corp Movement is Remaking Capitalism
In a capitalist society, businesses hold significant sway. They can either skew the system in favor of a select few,...
To Drive Real Impact And Game-Changing Solutions Requires Engaging Stakeholder Networks
Collaboration across sectors of society is imperative to solving our planet’s most pressing issues, like climate change,...
Ethical Fashion: How Carbon-Neutral Reformation Is Reforming The Notoriously Wasteful Fashion Industry
Fashion is known as a wasteful industry, but Reformation is part of a movement of ethical fashion leaders working to change...
How Earned Wage Access Can Upend Predatory Lending And Build Employee Financial Wellness
Payactiv is a pioneer in Earned Wage Access (EWA), which allows employees to access their wages ahead of their regularly...
Could CDFIs Be One Way To Finance Economic Justice?
CNote, an investing platform, partners with federally certified Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) around...
From Good Intentions To Meaningful Actions: Employee-Ownership Holds Company Accountable To DEI Improvement
Employee-owned Butler/Till reflected on its own diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices following protests for...
H&R Block CEO Jeff Jones On Leading By Listening, And Building With Purpose
As our 1099s and W2s arrive in the mail, it is time to start thinking about tax season. Jeff Jones, CEO of H&R Block,...
Characterizing the Mission Statements of Benefit Corporations: Empirical evidence from Italy
In 2015, Italy introduced a novel legal entity called the "benefit corporation" (società benefit). These companies are...
Paper-Free Isn’t Enough: The Keys To Sustainable Web Design For Every Business
Tom Greenwood is a “sustainability nut” with a new book about sustainable web design principles all businesses can—and...
Connecting Capital To Game-Changing Entrepreneurs: Investors Show Growing Interest In Stakeholder-Focused Opportunities
Entrepreneurs are creating ways to mitigate the effects of the climate crisis and other systemic issues, so getting them...
Risk-Averse Real Estate Investing Is Turning To Sustainability For Strong, Long-Term Financial Returns
FORE Partnership is a real estate investment firm that focuses on sustainable development, often by renovating existing...
Waste Is A Design Flaw: Rubicon Taps Technology To Help Businesses and Governments Save Money and Go Zero Waste
By seeing waste as a design flaw, Rubicon helps clients streamline their operations and enhance their sustainability —...
AppHarvest’s Mega-Indoor Farm Offers Economic Alternative To Coal Mining For Appalachia
AppHarvest has found favor with investors and workers for its mega-scale indoor farming model and its purpose-minded...
Climate Action Is Critical For SMEs Long-Term Success – And SMEs Are Integral To Climate Action’s Success
It’s not enough for the public sector to spearhead climate change. SMEs have a vital role to play—and to not do so is to...
This Zero-Waste Plastic Molding Manufacturer Saves More Than A Quarter-Million Dollars A Year By Not Having Trash Bins
Cascade Engineering is a large-scale plastic injection molding manufacturer that counts sustainability as part of its...
Addressing One Root Of Wealth Inequality Through Employee Ownership
While gig workers are seemingly becoming the norm, the safety net provided by employee benefits in the U.S. is undeniable....
Give Employees A Stake: The Business Model That Could Tackle Wealth Disparity In The U.S.,
With the pandemic further accelerating decades of rapidly increasing income inequality, many businesses are addressing the...
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Cumplo S.A. is a Chilean financial technology company that operates based on the principles of the sharing economy. Its...
Funding The Inclusive Economy: How Purpose-Minded Investors Are Changing Capitalism
While the vast majority of investments continue to go to companies owned by white men, there is a growing movement of...
Multimillion-Dollar Global Food Leader Bama Companies Credits Success To Baked-In Stakeholder Governance
What started with pies baked in grandma’s kitchen has grown into Bama Companies, a multimillion-dollar foodservice industry...
Networking On Purpose: How B Corps Are Creating Connections And Building Their Community In The Southeast U.S.
Many people remain unfamiliar with businesses operating as a force for good. That’s why two Southeast U.S. business leaders...
Should Your Company Help Get Out The Vote? Why Participant And Others Say ‘Yes’
Increasingly, companies are allowing employees time to vote and engaging in other nonpartisan efforts to increase civic...
AI Technology Can Enhance Human-Centered Work Instead Of Threaten It
Samasource, a training data and validation company, believes AI can enhance how we work. The company operates with care for...
Vital Farms IPO Shows Acceptance Of Stakeholder Versus Stockholder Values On The Market
Ethical food company and Certified B Corporation Vital Farms had an incredibly successful IPO earlier this year, raising...
Co-Operative Structure Proves Resilient In The Face Of Crisis
Cabot Creamery is a dairy co-operative based in Vermont with 800 farms throughout New England and in New York. With a...
Do Businesses Have A Role In Solving Poverty In The Time Of COVID-19? These B Corps Say ‘Yes’,
COVID-19 shook what was a fragile financial foundation for many. What is the role of business in addressing poverty during...
Varieties Of Capitalism And The Future Of Stakeholder Management
Yesterday, American nonprofit B Lab announced an important step in the transition to stakeholder capitalism. Six...
Business Social Innovation To Tackle Cycles Of Poverty
A growing number of businesses are strategically hiring people from marginalized communities, an innovative and sustainable...
The Anti-Racism Work Your Business Should Be Doing: Insights From B Corp TMI Consulting’s Tiffany Jana
In the wake of shootings and other violent attacks on People of Color, companies are stepping up to address the pressing...
The B Corp Movement Goes Big
The campaign to reform capitalism by making companies prioritize stakeholders could never succeed without getting large...
Innovative Workforce Programs Make Businesses Work For Employees
COVID-19 put the insecure and vulnerable plight of many workers in the spotlight. Employee practices at two B Corps provide...
Brands Are Only As Successful And Impactful As Their Stakeholders: Transparency And Brand Activism With B Corp Beautycounter
For Beautycounter, this includes advocacy at the federal and state level, investments in research, and a focus on issues...
Customers Care About How Your Supply Chain Functions—Time To Bring Its Impact Up To Higher Standards
People increasingly expect businesses to uphold higher social and environmental standards, and this includes a company’s...
It’s No Longer A Viable Option For Capitalism To Ignore Carbon Impact
Carbon emissions, often viewed by businesses as an externality, are beginning to cost companies, and investors are taking...
How Athleta’s Purpose Shaped Its Response To The COVID-19 Crisis
Athleta is one of the largest apparel brands in the world to adopt a legal structure that requires it to consider all...
Operate Your Business As You See Fit: New Legal Form Widens Directors’ Decision-Making Considerations
The benefit corporation represents a corporate structure that empowers companies to factor in a wide spectrum of...
Is Your Business Ready For Stakeholder Capitalism?
Stakeholder capitalism is growing in prominence around the globe, and consumers are taking notice of whether companies join...
An Interactive Arts Space Reinvents Itself For The Post-Covid Era
Learn about how Santa Fe based Meow Wolf, an interactive arts space with a social mission has responded to Covid-19.
How To Future-Proof Your Business For The New Capitalism
As demographics shift, purpose-driven businesses are thriving. Recent research shows companies focusing on multiple...
What Happens When COVID-19 Is Driving Demand? Grove Collaborative Delivers Soap And Sanitizer To Customers Without Sacrificing Mission
By valuing its existing customers, suppliers, and workers, the San Francisco-based household products business and...
Certified B Corps: Using Business as a Force for Good
A growing number of organizations are incorporating corporate social responsibility into their strategy and operations....
How Allbirds Is Reinventing Shoes: The Leader Driving The Industry Into A Circular, Purpose-Driven Future
Fast fashion is the dominant trend, but consumers expect more from companies, especially as the purchasing power of...
Global Food Giant Adopts Stakeholder Model To Survive COVID-19 And The Long-Term
While Danone has a long standing commitment to incorporating social and environmental factors in its decisions, COVID-19...
How A Toothbrush Could Help Solve Our Ocean Plastic Crisis
Preserve was ahead of the sustainability game in the late 1990s, when the business launched to transform recyclables into...
For Businesses To Be Actively Anti-Racist, They Have To Put In The Work And Investment For The Long-Term
Article commenting on the the 2020 social landscape of racial relations in corporate america.
Why Ben & Jerry’s Won’t Stay Silent On White Supremacy—Or Other Social Justice Issues
For some businesses, taking a stand on White Supremacy and Black Lives Matter was new territory—and not much more than...
Find The Best Talent And More: 4 Concrete Benefits To Your Business Of Being Accountable To Stakeholders
Accountability is essential if a company is to be purpose-driven and meet the needs of all stakeholders. But where to...
Through Worker Engagement, An Employee-Owned Flour Company Adapts To COVID
As COVID-19 continues to impact businesses across the nation, the baking supplies industry is seeing a surge....
Governance and accountability models in Italian certified benefit corporations
Benefit corporations establish a novel hybrid corporate structure that permits the pursuit of both profit and social goals....
Consumer motivations to purchase from benefit corporations (B Corps)
The aim of this research is to delve into the motivational drivers influencing consumers' decisions to buy from Benefit...
Does Benefit Corporation Status Matter to Investors? An Exploratory Study of Investor Perceptions and Decisions
Our study examines whether the public disclosure of a company's choice to structure itself as a benefit corporation (BC)...
Critical analysis of information about integrated management systems and environmental policy on the Portuguese firms’ website, towards sustainable development
This study aimed to analyze the content and characteristics of Portuguese firms that share information related to...
The Leverage of Protest: Market, Media, and Reputational Disruption in Social Movement Success
How do social movements compel major corporations to make concessions? While it is commonly assumed that protests gain...
Benefit Corporation: a path to affordable gene therapies?
As the market witnesses a proliferation of effective gene therapies, it is imperative to initiate measures aimed at...
Corporate social responsibility, firm performance and tax risk
This study aims to examine the potential impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on reducing tax risk. Existing...
Citadels of privilege: the rise of LLCs, LPs and the perpetuation of elite power in America
Corporations, long considered the primary resource-producing and redistributing entities, have been joined by a significant...
From green to good supply chains:: Halo effect between environmental and social responsibility
This paper aims to explore the extent to which dynamic capabilities (DCs) derived from the domain of green supply chain...
Laureate Education, Inc. & the B Corp Certification: Always meant to ‘B’?
In 2014, Laureate Education, Inc. (Laureate) stood as the world's largest for-profit post-secondary education company,...
New Business Trend: An Authentic Commitment to Purpose
The catchphrase "Ding dong, AVON calling!" from the '60s symbolized not only cosmetics sales but also women's financial...
Organizational Identity Formation in Alternative Organizations: A Study of Three Benefit Corporations
In the United States, the benefit corporation (BC) represents a novel corporate entity obligated by law to not only...
Strategies, practices, and tensions in managing business model innovation for sustainability: The case of an Australian BCorp
This article delves into sustainable innovation through the perspective of business model innovation for sustainability,...
Benefit Corporations: An Analysis of Social Benefit Reporting
More than half of the companies in the S&P 500 and Fortune 500 release corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports....
B Corporation Certification Advantages? Impacts on Performance and Development
B Corporations are profit-driven enterprises that adhere to specific social and environmental criteria. This preliminary...
To Profit or Not to Profit? The Role of Greed Perceptions in Consumer Support for Social Ventures
A growing number of social ventures are characterized by being for-profit companies aiming to generate profit while also...
Socially responsible human resource practices: disclosures of the world’s best multinational workplaces
This paper seeks to examine the socially responsible human resource practices that are revealed by the "World's Best...
Danone North America: The World’s Largest B Corporation
This case study delves into the B Corp certification journey of Danone's North American division, a Paris-based food...
Going Public: Debating Matters of Concern As an Imperative for Management Scholars
Essay Review of the following books: "The Green and the Black: The Comprehensive Account of the Shale Revolution, the...
Certified Benefit Corporations as a new way to make sustainable business: The Italian example
A Benefit Corporation offers an alternative to conventional business models, introducing a fresh approach to the management...
The Prospects for Enlightened Corporate Leadership
In his recent book, "The Enlightened Capitalists," James O’Toole delves into the challenges faced by business pioneers over...
Why We Care about Certified B Corporations: From Valuing Growth to Certifying Values Practices
There is currently a widespread interest in comprehending how organizations can contribute to achieving sustainability,...
Influence of sustainability scholarship on competencies – an empirical evidence
The evolution of curricula is shifting from a sole focus on knowledge-based outcomes towards a greater emphasis on...
The Impact of B Lab Certification on Firm Growth
We investigate how the adoption of B Lab certification, a rapidly expanding form of third-party certification for...
Key issues and challenges in stakeholder engagement in sustainability reporting: A study of Australian local councils
The objective of this paper is to investigate the critical concerns and obstacles that have the potential to impact the...
Creating shared value in an industrial conurbation: Evidence from the North Staffordshire ceramics cluster
Porter and Kramer's Creating Shared Value may have a greater utility in evaluating historical events within capitalism...
Shifting corporate social responsibility to corporate social opportunity through creating shared value
Engaging in societal contributions should not be viewed merely as an act of charity; instead, it can be a strategic means...
The Role of International Investment Law in the Business and Human Rights Legal Process
This article explores the relationship between international investment law and international human rights law to determine...
Sweatshops, Structural Injustice, and the Wrong of Exploitation: Why Multinational Corporations Have Positive Duties to the Global Poor
This article explores the interaction between international investment law and international human rights law, aiming to...
Elite status talks, but how loudly and why? – Exploring elite CSR micro-politics
The aim of this paper is to explore the proactive contributions of elite organizations to corporate social responsibility...
Allbirds’ Reported Billion-Dollar Valuation: What Makes These Strange Birds Fly
This article discusses the business background and strategy of certified B Corp Allbirds.
Promoting the Long-Term Management of Public Corporations Through a Reform of Canadian Corporate Law’
Protecting the Public’s Interest: Options for Structuring Public Authorities for Sport Venues
This study demonstrates the advantages of public-private partnerships in establishing public corporations for constructing...
Financial Communication in the Context of Corporate Social Responsibility Growth
In this research paper, we investigated the simultaneous growth of corporate entities and the evolution of financial...
Capitalism and Financial Innovation
During the 2012 CFA Institute Financial Analysts Seminar in Chicago, Robert J. Shiller emphasized the need for ongoing...
Should brands “nudge us for good”? Towards a critical assessment of neuro‐liberal corporate social responsibility
This article conducts a critical examination of the recent emergence of neuro-liberal Corporate Social Responsibility...
Boosting Awareness of B Corps by Linking Them to Voting
An article about the intersections of civic engagement and B Corps.
Environmental impact of FDI – the case of US subsidiaries
This paper seeks to investigate the influence of majority-owned subsidiaries of US multinational enterprises (MNEs), as...
Business and political process reform: ignore or engage?
This paper has a dual purpose. Firstly, it delves into the reasons behind the willingness of American businesses to support...
Opaque transparency: How material affordances shape intermediary work
How do the practical aspects of intermediary work impact regulators, targets, and beneficiaries? To explore this question,...
Senator Elizabeth Warren, Republicans, CEO & BlackRock’s Fink Unite Around ‘Accountable Capitalism’
A significant but unnoticed corporate shift is happening in the United States with the emergence of benefit corporations, a...
Companies Shouldn’t Be Accountable Only to Shareholders
Corporate profits are on the rise, but the wages of the average worker have remained stagnant for a year. This economic...
The Rise of B Corps Highlights the Emergence Of A New Way of Doing Business
Highlights some research that aligns with the emergence of B Corps and existing success stories of certified B Corps.
NGOs and the creation of value in supply chains
Corporations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) frequently join forces to establish new supply chains. Employing a...
Poppy Barley: Weighing the Costs and Benefits of Sustainability Certification
In November of 2016, the co-founders of Poppy Barley Inc. (Poppy Barley) had just concluded their discussion about the...