All Outputs (18)

The Influence of National Culture on Corporate Social Responsibility in the Ethiopian Mining Sector (2023)
Journal Article

This study examines the influence of national culture on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the community activities in Ethiopia's mining sector. We adopted a mixed method with quantitative data collected from 250 middle and top-level managers... Read More about The Influence of National Culture on Corporate Social Responsibility in the Ethiopian Mining Sector.

Strengthening or Restricting? Explaining the Covid-19 Pandemic’s Configurational Effects on Companies’ Sustainability Strategies and Practices (2022)
Journal Article

We explore the Covid-19 pandemic’s impact on companies’ sustainability strategies and practices. Prior research has identified a number of factors that shape such effects, including crisis severity, resource slack, and prior investments, but their in... Read More about Strengthening or Restricting? Explaining the Covid-19 Pandemic’s Configurational Effects on Companies’ Sustainability Strategies and Practices.

Gender mainstreaming for sustainable mining in sub-Saharan Africa: Opportunities and challenges (2022)
Book Chapter

Mapping the landscape of Consumer Food Waste (2021)
Journal Article

Since 2015 there has been a surge of academic publications and citations focused on consumer food waste. To introduce a special issue of Appetite focused on the drivers of consumer food waste we perform a transdisciplinary and historical review of th... Read More about Mapping the landscape of Consumer Food Waste.

Far from Clean: Labour Exploitation in the UK’s Hand Car Wash Sector (2021)
Book Chapter

Hand car washing, the process of washing a vehicle by hand, is a relatively new business activity in the United Kingdom (UK). Prior to 2004, hand car washes (HCWs) were virtually non-existent (Clark & Colling, 2018). However, it is estimated that bet... Read More about Far from Clean: Labour Exploitation in the UK’s Hand Car Wash Sector.

Feeding A Rich Nation. Modern Slavery Reporting In UK Agriculture (2021)
Book Chapter

The impact of Covid-19 on gold and gemstone artisanal and small-scale mining in sub-Saharan Africa: The case of Ghana and Kenya (2021)
Journal Article

Artisanal and small-scale miners are facing unprecedented challenges due to the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. The paper adopts a practice-based approach to examine the impact of Covid-19 on gold and gemstone Artisanal and Small-scale Mining... Read More about The impact of Covid-19 on gold and gemstone artisanal and small-scale mining in sub-Saharan Africa: The case of Ghana and Kenya.

COVID-19 in Africa: Contextualizing Impacts, Responses, and Prospects (2020)
Journal Article

It has become a truism that COVID-19 has impacted all countries and all people around the world, but in different ways. Yet this contextual diversity in the pandemic’s impacts, the responses by governments and other actors, and the prospects for reco... Read More about COVID-19 in Africa: Contextualizing Impacts, Responses, and Prospects.

Mining, the environment, and human rights in Ghana: An area of limited statehood perspective (2020)
Journal Article

Although the global norms meant to guide corporate environmental human rights conducts have steadily improved, there have been limited efforts directed at exploring whether business-related environmental human rights infringements have as a result re... Read More about Mining, the environment, and human rights in Ghana: An area of limited statehood perspective.

Talking the Walk: The Deflation Response to Legitimacy Challenges (2019)
Journal Article

Organizations need legitimacy to be able to operate effectively. Consequently, and just like their participants, Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives (MSIs) need to respond when faced with legitimacy challenges from external parties. We build on current the... Read More about Talking the Walk: The Deflation Response to Legitimacy Challenges.

Business Ethics in Africa: The Role of Institutional Context, Social Relevance, and Development Challenges (2019)
Journal Article

Business ethics in Africa, as a field of research, practice, and teaching, has grown rapidly over the last two decades or so, covering a wide variety of topical issues, including corporate social responsibility, governance, and social entrepreneurshi... Read More about Business Ethics in Africa: The Role of Institutional Context, Social Relevance, and Development Challenges.

Introduction to the Special Issue: Building High Performing Organizations in Africa (2019)
Journal Article

Following the 4th Biennial Conference of the Africa Academy of Management held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in January 2018 and hosted by the Addis Ababa University, it was decided to publish a Special Issue on the theme of the Conference, Building High... Read More about Introduction to the Special Issue: Building High Performing Organizations in Africa.

Sustainability in Marketing (2019)
Book Chapter

This chapter presents a timely case for incorporating sustainability education as a key feature of marketing curricula. Heath and McKechnie in this chapter contextualize marketing education for sustainability within the changing higher education land... Read More about Sustainability in Marketing.

Incorporating Sustainability in Management Education: An Interdisciplinary Approach (2019)
Book

© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019. All rights reserved. Responding to the pressing need of business schools to incorporate sustainability thinking into their curricula, this new book offers fresh thinking on how to achieve this i... Read More about Incorporating Sustainability in Management Education: An Interdisciplinary Approach.

Introduction (2018)
Book Chapter

The vast majority of businesses globally are small. If business is to be socially responsible, we need to go beyond the westernised concept of 'Corporate Social Responsibility', to develop 'Small Business Social Responsibility'. This agenda-setting R... Read More about Introduction.

Collective action for tackling “wicked” social problems: a system dynamics model for corporate community involvement (2017)
Journal Article

Although corporations have been often accused of exacerbating social and environmental conditions in developing world regions where they operate, there are companies that sincerely engage in community development initiatives and aim for the delivery... Read More about Collective action for tackling “wicked” social problems: a system dynamics model for corporate community involvement.

Engaging fringe stakeholders in business and society research: applying visual participatory research methods (2016)
Journal Article

Business and society (B&S) researchers, as well as practitioners, have been critiqued for ignoring those with less voice and power (e.g. women, non-literate or indigenous peoples) often referred to as ‘fringe stakeholders’. Existing methods used in B... Read More about Engaging fringe stakeholders in business and society research: applying visual participatory research methods.

Chinese State-Owned Enterprises and Human Rights: The Importance of National and Intra-Organizational Pressures (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015, © The Author(s) 2015. The growing global prominence of Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) brings new dimensions to our understanding of multi-national corporations (MNCs) and human rights issues. This article constructs a three-level fram... Read More about Chinese State-Owned Enterprises and Human Rights: The Importance of National and Intra-Organizational Pressures.