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Business & Society, 2018
Meta-governance is Earth system governance for dealing with the global commons. This article deve... more Meta-governance is Earth system governance for dealing with the global commons. This article develops a whole network approach to meta-governance to explore the potential for collective action for sustainable development by a loosely coupled network of networks. Networked corporate social responsibility (CSR) governance has emerged around corporate sustainability and responsibility in the first years of the 21st century. Growing agreements and interactions among CSR initiatives suggest the development, structure, and governance of networked CSR governance as a network that can analytically be viewed as a whole and as a platform for learning about systemic change. Using the evolution of CSR initiatives from about 1990 to 2014, the authors differentiate four developmental stages: independent and fragmented multistakeholder networks as CSR governance, collaborative CSR governance, networked CSR governance, and integrated networked CSR governance. The authors then present a framework to analyze networked CSR governance as a whole network experimenting with meta-governance.
Papers by Sandra Waddock
Humanistic management journal, Feb 3, 2024
Sustainability, 2020
This article offers a framework for economics that affirms life to replace the flawed yet dominan... more This article offers a framework for economics that affirms life to replace the flawed yet dominant paradigm of neoliberal economics. Building an argument for a new set of core memes—core ideas that are the building blocks of stories and narratives (like neoliberalism)—this article presents a proposed set of economics memes that support life drawn from a wide range of sources. The framework’s six memes are: stewardship of the whole; co-creating collective value; governance through cosmopolitan-localism; regeneration, reciprocity, and circularity; relationship and connectedness; and equitable markets and trade, all of which are consistent in supporting other recent economics framings like ‘doughnut economics’.
… collaborations for the …, 1998
Chapter 16 Changing the Culture of the University to Engage in Outreach Scholarship1 Mary Brabeck... more Chapter 16 Changing the Culture of the University to Engage in Outreach Scholarship1 Mary Brabeck, John Cawthorne, Marilyn Cochran-Smith, Nancy Gaspard, Carol Hurd Green, Maureen Kenny, Rosemary Krawczyk, Claire Lowery, M, Brinton Lykes, Alan D. Minuskin, Jean ...
Routledge eBooks, Sep 8, 2017
Routledge eBooks, Apr 30, 2017
SAGE Publications, Inc. eBooks, 2012
Routledge eBooks, Apr 30, 2017
The Journal of Corporate Citizenship, Mar 1, 2009
Proceedings - Academy of Management, Aug 1, 1990
ABSTRACT
Social Responsibility Journal, Oct 1, 2018
Purpose This paper aims to propose and test a modified interpretation of long-standing issues on ... more Purpose This paper aims to propose and test a modified interpretation of long-standing issues on the corporate responsibility (CR)–corporate financial performance (CFP) relationship: companies involved in CR are in general no better and no worse in their level of financial performance than companies without such engagement because of the trade-off between benefit and cost at firm level and imbalance between supply and demand at industry (market) level. Design/methodology/approach The authors apply this frame to a data set with more than 12,000 observations over a 14-year period, using confidence intervals, as a useful and statistically valid approach for testing the null hypothesis. Findings The present study’s findings support neutrality between CR and CFP at the firm and industry levels, implying that a firm’s CR involvement neither penalizes nor improves its CFP. Research limitations/implications CR activities may provide windows of opportunity for companies but do not systematically improve financial performance. Practical implications “Doing good” is not a panacea for corporate achievement with respect to market-facing activities. For firms to succeed, instead, they need to create and implement their business cases and models by converting their involvement in CR activities into drivers for better outcomes because investments in CR practices do alone not guarantee improved financial performance. Originality/value The innovations in this study are twofold. Conceptually, this paper proposes a comprehensive approach for a neutral CR–CFP linkage. Empirically, it introduces a novel and appropriate method for testing neutrality. These will mark an important advance in the theoretical and empirical debates over CR and CFP.
The Journal of Corporate Citizenship, Mar 1, 2001
Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society, Oct 5, 2012
Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society, Oct 5, 2012
Proceedings - Academy of Management, 2015
Humanistic Crisis Management
Business & Society, 2018
Meta-governance is Earth system governance for dealing with the global commons. This article deve... more Meta-governance is Earth system governance for dealing with the global commons. This article develops a whole network approach to meta-governance to explore the potential for collective action for sustainable development by a loosely coupled network of networks. Networked corporate social responsibility (CSR) governance has emerged around corporate sustainability and responsibility in the first years of the 21st century. Growing agreements and interactions among CSR initiatives suggest the development, structure, and governance of networked CSR governance as a network that can analytically be viewed as a whole and as a platform for learning about systemic change. Using the evolution of CSR initiatives from about 1990 to 2014, the authors differentiate four developmental stages: independent and fragmented multistakeholder networks as CSR governance, collaborative CSR governance, networked CSR governance, and integrated networked CSR governance. The authors then present a framework to analyze networked CSR governance as a whole network experimenting with meta-governance.
Humanistic management journal, Feb 3, 2024
Sustainability, 2020
This article offers a framework for economics that affirms life to replace the flawed yet dominan... more This article offers a framework for economics that affirms life to replace the flawed yet dominant paradigm of neoliberal economics. Building an argument for a new set of core memes—core ideas that are the building blocks of stories and narratives (like neoliberalism)—this article presents a proposed set of economics memes that support life drawn from a wide range of sources. The framework’s six memes are: stewardship of the whole; co-creating collective value; governance through cosmopolitan-localism; regeneration, reciprocity, and circularity; relationship and connectedness; and equitable markets and trade, all of which are consistent in supporting other recent economics framings like ‘doughnut economics’.
… collaborations for the …, 1998
Chapter 16 Changing the Culture of the University to Engage in Outreach Scholarship1 Mary Brabeck... more Chapter 16 Changing the Culture of the University to Engage in Outreach Scholarship1 Mary Brabeck, John Cawthorne, Marilyn Cochran-Smith, Nancy Gaspard, Carol Hurd Green, Maureen Kenny, Rosemary Krawczyk, Claire Lowery, M, Brinton Lykes, Alan D. Minuskin, Jean ...
Routledge eBooks, Sep 8, 2017
Routledge eBooks, Apr 30, 2017
SAGE Publications, Inc. eBooks, 2012
Routledge eBooks, Apr 30, 2017
The Journal of Corporate Citizenship, Mar 1, 2009
Proceedings - Academy of Management, Aug 1, 1990
ABSTRACT
Social Responsibility Journal, Oct 1, 2018
Purpose This paper aims to propose and test a modified interpretation of long-standing issues on ... more Purpose This paper aims to propose and test a modified interpretation of long-standing issues on the corporate responsibility (CR)–corporate financial performance (CFP) relationship: companies involved in CR are in general no better and no worse in their level of financial performance than companies without such engagement because of the trade-off between benefit and cost at firm level and imbalance between supply and demand at industry (market) level. Design/methodology/approach The authors apply this frame to a data set with more than 12,000 observations over a 14-year period, using confidence intervals, as a useful and statistically valid approach for testing the null hypothesis. Findings The present study’s findings support neutrality between CR and CFP at the firm and industry levels, implying that a firm’s CR involvement neither penalizes nor improves its CFP. Research limitations/implications CR activities may provide windows of opportunity for companies but do not systematically improve financial performance. Practical implications “Doing good” is not a panacea for corporate achievement with respect to market-facing activities. For firms to succeed, instead, they need to create and implement their business cases and models by converting their involvement in CR activities into drivers for better outcomes because investments in CR practices do alone not guarantee improved financial performance. Originality/value The innovations in this study are twofold. Conceptually, this paper proposes a comprehensive approach for a neutral CR–CFP linkage. Empirically, it introduces a novel and appropriate method for testing neutrality. These will mark an important advance in the theoretical and empirical debates over CR and CFP.
The Journal of Corporate Citizenship, Mar 1, 2001
Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society, Oct 5, 2012
Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society, Oct 5, 2012
Proceedings - Academy of Management, 2015
Humanistic Crisis Management