Strengthening or Restricting? Explaining the Covid-19 Pandemic’s Configurational Effects on Companies’ Sustainability Strategies and Practices (2022)
Journal Article
Hamann, R., Sewlal, A., Pariag-Maraye, N., Muthuri, J., Amaeshi, K., Nwagwu, I., & Soderbergh, J. (2022). Strengthening or Restricting? Explaining the Covid-19 Pandemic’s Configurational Effects on Companies’ Sustainability Strategies and Practices. Business and Society, https://doi.org/10.1177/00076503221134100

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
Muthuri, J. N., Abuya, W., & Torres, L. (2022). Gender mainstreaming for sustainable mining in sub-Saharan Africa: Opportunities and challenges. In N. Yakovleva, & E. Nickless (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development (400-418). Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

Mapping the landscape of Consumer Food Waste (2021)
Journal Article
Harvey, J., Nica-Avram, G., Smith, M., Hibbert, S., & Muthuri, J. (2022). Mapping the landscape of Consumer Food Waste. Appetite, 168, Article 105702. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2021.105702

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
Jardine, A., Trautrims, A., & Gardner, A. (2021). Far from Clean: Labour Exploitation in the UK’s Hand Car Wash Sector. In S. Gold, M. G. Arnold, J. N. Muthuri, & X. Rueda (Eds.), Base of the Pyramid Markets in Affluent Countries: Innovation and challenges to sustainability. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

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
Trautrims, A., & Phillips, A. (2021). Feeding A Rich Nation. Modern Slavery Reporting In UK Agriculture. In S. Gold, M. Gabriele Arnold, J. N. Muthuri, & X. Rueda (Eds.), Base of the Pyramid Markets in Affluent Countries Innovation and challenges to sustainability. Routledge

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
Muthuri, J., Jain, A., Ndegwa, A., Mwagandi, S., & Tagoe, N. (2021). The impact of Covid-19 on gold and gemstone artisanal and small-scale mining in sub-Saharan Africa: The case of Ghana and Kenya. Africa Journal of Management, 7(1), 121-147. https://doi.org/10.1080/23322373.2021.1878808

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
Hamann, R., Muthuri, J. N., Nwagwu, I., Pariag-Maraye, N., Chamberlin, W., Ghai, S., …Ogbechie, C. (2020). COVID-19 in Africa: Contextualizing Impacts, Responses, and Prospects. Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, 62(6), 8-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/00139157.2020.1820293

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
Idemudia, U., Kwakyewah, C., & Muthuri, J. (2020). Mining, the environment, and human rights in Ghana: An area of limited statehood perspective. Business Strategy and the Environment, 29(7), 2919-2926. https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.2581

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
Whelan, G., De Bakker, F., & Muthuri, J. (2019). Talking the Walk: The Deflation Response to Legitimacy Challenges. Management, 22(4), 636-663

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
Adeleye, I., Luiz, J., Muthuri, J., & Amaeshi, K. (2020). Business Ethics in Africa: The Role of Institutional Context, Social Relevance, and Development Challenges. Journal of Business Ethics, 161(4), 717–729. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-019-04338-x

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.