Table of contents - Special Issue: Business and sustainability: innovating for a better world
Guest Editors: Geoff Sheard
Innovation for development and poverty reduction: an integrative literature review
Mario Pansera, Fabien MartinezThe 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 DavidExploring 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 CaiazzaMost 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 MaduekweThe 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 EspositoThe 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 SoutarThe 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 BockenTo 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 KapoorThe 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 VinodhAgility 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 PintoCorporate social responsibility (CSR) departments are often involved with civil society organizations (CSOs) through partnerships in order to develop projects. There are valuable…
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- Associate Professor Magnus Larsson