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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.

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.

Restoring Human Rights : Dialogical Stakeholder Engagement for Marginalized Women (2023)
Presentation / Conference
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. (2023). Rights-based, worker-driven accountability in the fields: Contesting the uncontested contestable. Critical Perspectives On Accounting, 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.