All Outputs (16)

Compliance (2024)
Book Chapter
Torres, L. D. (2024). Compliance. In L. Matthews, L. Bianchi, & C. Ingram (Eds.), Concise Encyclopedia of Corporate Social Responsibility (18-22). Edward Elgar Publishing

Compliance has become prevalent worldwide and especially following the passage of various national regulations such as the United States’ Sarbanes–Oxley Act, Australia’s Corporate Law Economic Reform Program Act, and the UK Bribery Act. The cost of b... Read More about Compliance.

Business and human rights (2024)
Book Chapter
Bianchi, L., & Landman, T. (2024). Business and human rights. In L. Matthews, L. Bianchi, & C. Ingram (Eds.), Concise Encyclopedia of Corporate Social Responsibility (1-7). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800880344.ch01

Sustainable finance (2024)
Book Chapter
O'Sullivan, N. (2024). Sustainable finance. In L. Matthews, L. Bianchi, & C. Ingram (Eds.), Concise Encyclopedia of Corporate Social Responsibility (196-201). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800880344.ch37

Sustainable finance relates to the integration of environmental and social issues into banking, investment, and insurance activities, and the recognition that in doing so, the financial sector has tremendous leverage to shift international economies... Read More about Sustainable finance.

Sustainable Investment (2024)
Book Chapter
O’Sullivan, N. (2024). Sustainable Investment. In L. Matthews, L. Bianchi, & C. Ingram (Eds.), Concise Encyclopedia of Corporate Social Responsibility (207-214). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800880344.ch39

Sustainable investment, more widely currently known as “responsible investment”, refers to the integration of sustainability issues— otherwise known as environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues in the investment community— into core investmen... Read More about Sustainable Investment.

Sustainable banking (2024)
Book Chapter
Niamh, O. (2024). Sustainable banking. In L. Matthews, L. Bianchi, & C. Ingram (Eds.), Concise Encyclopedia of Corporate Social Responsibility (187-191). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800880344.ch35

Sustainable banking refers to the integration of environmental and social issues into banking activities, principally including commercial and retail banking. As with institutional investors, sustainability issues in the banking sector are primarily... Read More about Sustainable banking.

Sustainable Insurance (2024)
Book Chapter
O’Sullivan, N. (2024). Sustainable Insurance. In L. Matthews, L. Bianchi, & C. Ingram (Eds.), Concise Encyclopedia of Corporate Social Responsibility (202-206). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800880344.ch38

Sustainable insurance refers to the integration of environmental, social and governance issues into insurance activities. This relates to both property and casualty insurance— otherwise known as ‘non-life’ insurance— as well as life insurance. As wit... Read More about Sustainable Insurance.

Corporate social responsibility (2024)
Book Chapter
Matthews, L., & Ingram, C. (2024). Corporate social responsibility. In L. Matthews, L. Bianchi, & C. Ingram (Eds.), Concise Encyclopedia of Corporate Social Responsibility (43-54). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800880344.ch09

In its most general sense, corporate social responsibility (CSR) can be understood as the recognition that corporations have a responsibility to society that includes but is not limited to their economic performance. There are a large number of defin... Read More about Corporate social responsibility.

Concise Encyclopedia of Corporate Social Responsibility (2024)
Book
Matthews, L., Bianchi, L., & Ingram, C. (Eds.). (2024). Concise Encyclopedia of Corporate Social Responsibility. Edward Elgar Publishing

This Concise Encyclopedia is an interdisciplinary overview of the field of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). It not only incorporates well-established concepts proffered by highly influential voices, but also captures the perspectives of tomorro... Read More about Concise Encyclopedia of Corporate Social Responsibility.

Rethinking Global Value Chains and Corporate Social Responsibility by Peter Lund-Thomsen (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022). ISBN 978 1 83910 208 0 (2023)
Journal Article
Bianchi, L. (2023). Rethinking Global Value Chains and Corporate Social Responsibility by Peter Lund-Thomsen (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022). ISBN 978 1 83910 208 0. Business and Human Rights Journal, 8(3), 477-479. https://doi.org/10.1017/bhj.2023.42

Restoring Human Rights : Dialogical Stakeholder Engagement for Marginalized Women (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Caruana, R., Bianchi, L., & Shivji, A. (2023, August). Restoring Human Rights : Dialogical Stakeholder Engagement for Marginalized Women. Presented at 83rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Boston, Massachusetts

Women experience multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination, vulnerability and marginalization and they are often unequal victims of unethical and illicit ‘business’ practices. Systematic exploitation of structural, social, physical and other... Read More about Restoring Human Rights : Dialogical Stakeholder Engagement for Marginalized Women.

Rights-based, worker-driven accountability in the fields: Contesting the uncontested contestable (2023)
Journal Article
Dillard, J., Shivji, A., & Bianchi, L. (2024). Rights-based, worker-driven accountability in the fields: Contesting the uncontested contestable. Critical Perspectives On Accounting, 99, Article 102646. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpa.2023.102646

We investigate the politicizing of migrant farmworkers’ rights regarding a fair and humane work environment using an agonistic-based critical dialogic accounting and accountability (CDAA) lens. The aim of CDAA is to employ accounting and accountabili... Read More about Rights-based, worker-driven accountability in the fields: Contesting the uncontested contestable.

Coping with the COVID-19 pandemic: the technical, moral and facilitating role of management control (2021)
Journal Article
Passetti, E., Battaglia, M., Bianchi, L., & Annesi, N. (2021). Coping with the COVID-19 pandemic: the technical, moral and facilitating role of management control. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 34(6), 1430-1444. https://doi.org/10.1108/AAAJ-08-2020-4839

Purpose: The study analyses how management control supports the organisation's response to the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. Design/methodology/approach: Video interviews with top and middle-level managers who were directly involved in handling the res... Read More about Coping with the COVID-19 pandemic: the technical, moral and facilitating role of management control.

Gender and Governance of Global Value Chains: promoting rights of women workers (2019)
Journal Article
Barrientos, S., Bianchi, L., & Berman, C. (2019). Gender and Governance of Global Value Chains: promoting rights of women workers. International Labour Review, 158(4), 729-752. https://doi.org/10.1111/ilr.12150

Private governance channelled through social compliance programmes and gender initiatives of multinational companies (MNC) are ineffective in tackling gender discrimination in global value chains. The United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and... Read More about Gender and Governance of Global Value Chains: promoting rights of women workers.

When Democratic Principles are not Enough: Tensions and Temporalities of Dialogic Stakeholder Engagement (2017)
Journal Article
Passetti, E., Bianchi, L., Battaglia, M., & Frey, M. (2019). When Democratic Principles are not Enough: Tensions and Temporalities of Dialogic Stakeholder Engagement. Journal of Business Ethics, 155(1), 173-190. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-017-3500-z

© 2017, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. Stakeholder engagement and dialogue have a central role in defining the relations between organisations and their internal and external interlocutors. Drawing upon the analysis of dialogic motifs, po... Read More about When Democratic Principles are not Enough: Tensions and Temporalities of Dialogic Stakeholder Engagement.

Managing for integration: a longitudinal analysis of management control for sustainability (2016)
Journal Article
Battaglia, M., Passetti, E., Bianchi, L., & Frey, M. (2016). Managing for integration: a longitudinal analysis of management control for sustainability. Journal of Cleaner Production, 136(Part A), 213-225. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.01.108

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd Based on a longitudinal eight-year study (2006–2014) in a large Italian food co-operative, this paper analyses whether and how the development and the use of sustainability control systems have been able to promote the integration... Read More about Managing for integration: a longitudinal analysis of management control for sustainability.

Sustainability reporting and corporate identity: action research evidences in an Italian Retailing Cooperative (2014)
Journal Article
Battaglia, M., Bianchi, L., Frey, M., & Passetti, E. (2015). Sustainability reporting and corporate identity: action research evidences in an Italian Retailing Cooperative. Business Ethics: A European Review, 24(1), 52-72. https://doi.org/10.1111/beer.12067

Cooperatives are facing the challenge to be competitive in the market, without losing their traditional values of mutuality and democracy. To do that, they need to re‐construct open and participative dialogue with their employees and members based on... Read More about Sustainability reporting and corporate identity: action research evidences in an Italian Retailing Cooperative.