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Automation, Alignment, and the Cooperative Interface
The paper demonstrates that social alignment is distinct from value alignment as it is currently understood in the AI safety literature, and argues...
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Stakeholder Pressures and Decarbonization Strategies in Mittelstand Firms
This study examines the influence of stakeholder pressures and family ownership on strategic decarbonization choices of German Mittelstand firms. It...
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Business Firms as Moral Agents: A Kantian Response to the Corporate Autonomy Problem
The idea that business firms qualify as group moral agents offers an attractive basis for understanding corporate moral responsibility. However, that...
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How Do Institutional Prescriptions (Fail to) Address Governance Challenges Under Institutional Hybridity? The Case of Governance Code Creation for Cooperative Enterprises
Codes of governance have mushroomed in contexts operating under a single, dominant institutional logic, such as publicly listed corporations. These...
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A Mixed Blessing? CEOs’ Moral Cleansing as an Alternative Explanation for Firms’ Reparative Responses Following Misconduct
When firm misconduct comes to light, CEOs are often faced with difficult decisions regarding whether and how to respond to stakeholder demands as...
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Family Firms Amidst the Global Financial Crisis: A Territorial Embeddedness Perspective on Downsizing
This study explores the downsizing propensity of family and non-family firms by considering their territorial embeddedness during both periods of...
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Are Companies Offloading Risk onto Employees in Times of Uncertainty? Insights from Corporate Pension Plans
We investigate how firms adjust corporate pension plans in response to economic policy uncertainty (EPU). Using a sample of US-listed firms, we find...
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Climate Change Social Norms and Corporate Cash Holdings
We study the relationship between climate change social norms (CCSN) and corporate cash holdings for U.S. firms. We find that county-level CCSN is...
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Top Managers’ Rice Culture and Corporate Social Responsibility Performance
Ecological psychology regards culture as a response to the demands of the environment. As rice farming in history has significantly influenced the...
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Just Returns from Capitalist Production
What explains and justifies factor shares, that is, the returns that workers and capital owners receive on their contribution to economic production?...
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CEO’s Childhood Experience of Natural Disaster and CSR Activities
Interest in the drivers of firms’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) is growing. However, little is known about the influence of a CEO’s childhood...
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Institutions and Corporate Reputation: Evidence from Public Debt Markets
Using data from China’s public debt markets, we study the value of corporate reputation and how it interacts with legal and cultural forces to assure...
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Experience of Marginalization in Noncooperative Spaces: The Case of Undocumented Migrant Workers in Italy
Undocumented migrant workers are among a group of marginalized stakeholders who are severely exploited at their workplace and across broader society....
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Signaling Effects of CSR Performance on Cross-border Alliance Formation
This study examines the effects of corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance of Chinese firms on the formation of cross-border alliances with...
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The Ethics of Sharing: Does Generosity Erode the Competitive Advantage of an Ecosystem Firm?
Innovation ecosystems are formed by interconnected firms that coalesce in interdependent networks to jointly create value. Such ecosystems rely on...
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A Moral Evaluation of LBOs
This study conducts a moral analysis of leverage buyouts (LBOs) and relies on the holistic framework of the Triple Font Theory. It shows that the...
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Rural and Urban Place Renewal in Cross-Sector Partnerships
Despite the acknowledged importance of the meanings that people attach to places (e.g., homes, businesses, communities), the literature on...
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Reciprocity in Firm–Stakeholder Dialog: Timeliness, Valence, Richness, and Topicality
Scholars of stakeholder management have long grappled with the question of how to communicate with stakeholders to enhance cooperation and reduce...
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Beliefs Matter: Local Climate Concerns and Industrial Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the United States
Industrial emissions of greenhouse gases are significant contributors to climate change, which poses a grave threat to social and economic systems....
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Activating Corporate Environmental Ethics on the Frontline: A Natural Resource-Based View
Corporate environmental ethics has moved from a niche issue within business strategy to a potential source of competitive advantage. Firms, however,...
