About the Authors

Frank G. A. Bakker is a Full Professor of Corporate Social Responsibility at IÉSEG School of Management (Lille, France), Coordinator of the IÉSEG Center on Organizational Responsibility (ICOR), and a Member of the research laboratory Lille Economics Management (LEM-CNRS 9921). He is coeditor of Business & Society and sits on the editorial boards of several journals. In his research, he combines insights from institutional theory, social movement studies, and stakeholder theory to examine interactions between activist groups and business firms on issues of corporate social responsibility (CSR). This stream of research has led to publications in journals such as Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management Studies, Business & Society, Organization Studies, and Journal of Business Ethics.

Jill A. Brown is an Associate Professor of Management and the Harold S. Geneen Research Professor at Bentley University. Her research includes areas of CSR, corporate governance, strategy, and ethics. Dr Brown received her PhD at the University of Georgia. She is Program Chair for the Social Issues in Management (SIM) division of the Academy of Management (AOM) and serves as Section/Associate Editor for the Journal of Business Ethics, Corporate Governance: An International Review, and Business & Society journals. She is coauthor of Business & Society: Ethics, Sustainability and Stakeholder Management, 10th ed., 2018, with Archie Carroll and Ann Buchholtz.

Timo Busch is a Full Professor at the School of Business, Economics, and Social Science of University of Hamburg (Germany) and Senior Fellow at the Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth of University of Zurich (Switzerland). He teaches courses on corporate sustainability, business strategy and the environment, and sustainable finance. Before joining University of Hamburg, he worked as Lecturer for ETH Zürich and was Project Manager for the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, and Energy. His research interests include strategies towards a low-carbon economy, the business case for sustainability, corporate eco-efficiency, and sustainable finance.

Jerry M. Calton (PhD in Management from University of Washington, 1986) currently works at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. His research and publications focus on the role of multistakeholder dialogue and engagement in promoting joint learning, collaborative problem-solving, and improved triple bottom line performance via emerging patterns of multisector network governance. His work has appeared in refereed journals such as the Journal of Business Ethics, Business Ethics Quarterly, Business & Society, and Journal of Corporate Citizenship, as well as in various book chapters. He is a former President of the International Association for Business & Society (IABS).

Archie B. Carroll is a Professor Emeritus of management in the Terry College of Business, University of Georgia. His areas of research include CSR and business ethics. Dr Carroll earned his three academic degrees from the Florida State University. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Management (AOM), International Association for Business & Society (IABS), and the Southern Management Association (SMA). He is coauthor of Business & Society: Ethics, Sustainability and Stakeholder Management, 10th ed., 2018, with Jill Brown and Ann Buchholtz. In 2012, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award in CSR from Humboldt University at Berlin.

D. Kirk Davidson earned his BA in Economics from Princeton University and his MBA from Harvard. He had a 25-year career in business management as a retail executive before earning his PhD from Golden Gate University. For the past 30 years, he has taught Corporate Social Responsibility and Marketing at George Washington University and Mount St. Mary’s University where he is now Professor Emeritus. He is the author of Selling Sin: The Marketing of Socially Unacceptable Products and The Moral Dimension of Marketing as well as many book chapters and articles.

Frank den Hond, PhD, is the Ehrnrooth Professor in Management and Organization at Hanken School of Economics (Helsinki, Finland), affiliated with VU University (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) and Past Editor of Organization Studies. His research interests are at the intersection of business in society, institutional organization theory, and social movement studies, and he recently developed an interest in partial organization theory. He has published in journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Business & Society, Journal of Corporate Citizenship, Journal of Management Studies, and Organization Studies.

Nikolay A. Dentchev is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and CSR at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and at KU Leuven, Belgium. He holds the Solvay Business School Chair of Social Entrepreneurship at VUB, with founding partners Close the Gap, Kluwer Belgium, and Euroclear. His research is published in various indexed journals such as Business & Society, Journal of Business Ethics, and Business Ethics: A European Review. He serves occasionally as Guest Editor to special issues in journals such as Business & Society and Journal of Cleaner Production. His research interests are related to CSR implementation, social entrepreneurship, and sustainable business models.

Philippe Eiselein is a Doctoral Researcher at the Department of Business, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). He is preparing his doctoral dissertation on the business models and scalability of social entrepreneurship. His teaching activities cover the subjects of entrepreneurship and CSR for Prof Dr N. Dentchev and Project Management for Prof Dr E. Haezendonck. His main research interests are in the areas of social entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial development, corporate social responsibility strategies, and sustainability practices.

Jan Endrikat is a Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer at the Chair of Management Accounting and Control at Technische Universität Dresden. He received his PhD from the Technische Universität Dresden in 2015. His research addresses contemporary issues at the interface of sustainability management, CSR, corporate governance, and management control. His research has been published in such highly ranked journals as Journal of Business Ethics, European Management Journal, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, and Journal of Cleaner Production. He teaches in the areas of cost accounting, strategic management accounting, and sustainability management control.

William C. Frederick is a Professor Emeritus at Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh. He is one of the founders of the field of Corporate Social Responsibility. He coauthored five editions of the leading textbook Business and Society and is author of Values, Nature, and Culture in the American Corporation; Corporation, Be Good; and Natural Corporate Management: From the Big Bang to Wall Street plus numerous articles on corporate social responsibility, business ethics, and the relationship of nature and business. He was Consultant to The Ford Foundation for field studies of CSR in Spain, Italy, Yugoslavia, and other European nations.

Edeltraud Guenther received her doctorate in environmental management control systems from Universitaet Augsburg and holds the Chair in Environmental Management and Accounting at Technische Universitaet Dresden since 1996. She has been Visiting Professor at the University of Virginia (USA), Kobe University (Japan), and Namibia University of Science and Technology in Windhoek. Most recently, she has initiated PRISMA, the Centre for Performance and Policy Research in Sustainability Measurement and Assessment. She is a Chairwoman for ISO 14051 “Material flow cost accounting” and ISO 14008 “Monetary valuation of environmental impacts from specific emissions and use of natural resources.”

Thomas Guenther is a Professor of Management Accounting and Control at Technische Universität Dresden. He received his PhD and habilitation degree from University of Augsburg, Germany. He had been several times Visitor Professor at University of Virginia, Virginia, USA and was/is teaching in MBA and Executive Programs at Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Austria, European Business School (EBS), Wiesbaden, Germany, and Mannheim Business School, Germany. His work covers two fields of research — the design of management control systems and the measurement, valuation, and control of nonfinancials. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Management Control.

Vanessa Hill is an Associate Professor of Management at the B.I. Moody III College of Business Administration, University of Louisiana, Lafayette. She holds the Home Bank (BORSF) Professorship in Management. Her research interests include corporate social responsibility, business ethics, leadership, and workplace values. Her work has been published in Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Management History, Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, and The Journal of Management Inquiry among other journals. Her scholarship and teaching is informed by civic and professional service. She has been an active member of the International Association of Business and Society (IABS) since 2001 and continues to serve on boards of nonprofit organizations in her community.

Laura Gyung Jun is an Associate Professor in Management in the School of Business at Pusan National University, Pusan, South Korea, where she teaches Management and Business Ethics. Her research interests focus on business ethics, CSR, and Korean culture. She received her PhD from Seoul National University.

Thomas Kayaert graduated in Macroeconomics at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) in 2014 with a dissertation on “Drivers for implementation of CSR in local public sector.” Since then, he is actively supporting Belgian social profit sector as Financial Director for FIX, a social economy organization that supports long-term job seekers by giving them a work experience in construction and renovation sector, thus leading them to a valuable job afterwards. Thomas is invested as a Financial Expert in the Flemish cultural and social profit sector.

Daina Mazutis is an Assistant Professor of Strategy at the University of Ottawa, where she also holds a Professorship in Ethics, Responsibility, and Sustainability (ERS). Her research examines the relationship between leadership and corporate social responsibility — specifically the role of executive orientation in shaping business strategies involving social and environmental issues. Her work has been published in journals such as Academy of Management Learning and Education, Annals of Social Responsibility, California Business Review, Business & Society, and Journal of Business Ethics. Daina has also presented extensively at international conferences where her work has been honored with several prestigious awards.

Shweta Nawani is a Doctoral Student in strategy and operations area at the Institute of Rural Management, Anand, India. Shweta’s special interests are in agri-business area.

Marc Orlitzky (PhD in Business Administration, University of Iowa) is a Chair of Management at the University of South Australia Business School. His previous positions included Lecturer at UNSW, Senior Lecturer above the Bar at the University of Auckland and Tenured Associate Professor at Penn State University, Altoona. His articles on management practices have received several prestigious research awards and garnered more than 8,000 citations on Google Scholar. His 2003 meta-analysis has become the most highly cited article ever published in the Financial Times-ranked journal Organization Studies. His latest book is Integrity in Business and Management (2017, Routledge/Taylor & Francis).

Vivek Pandey (PhD, Michigan State) is Assistant Professor of Economics at the Institute of Rural Management, Anand, India. His research intersects government policy and corporate governance.

Rajat Panwar is an Associate Professor of Sustainable Business Management in the Department of Management at the Walker College of Business, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, USA. His research focuses on corporate sustainability and CSR. He has previously published in Business and Society, Business Strategy and the Environment, Journal of Business Ethics, Organization and Environment, among others.

Caddie Putnam Rankin is an Assistant Professor of Strategic Management and Corporate Social Responsibility at Washington College. She graduated from Emory University with a PhD in Organizational Sociology and joined the Washington College faculty in 2016. Her research focuses on the intersections of business and society with an emphasis on corporate social responsibility, benefit organization forms, and social enterprise. She serves on the Board of Directors for the investment firm Fenimore Asset Management and the Putnam Family Foundation.

Kathleen Rehbein is an Associate Professor of Management at Marquette University’s College of Management. She received her PhD in Economics at Washington University. Her research has focused on understanding business/government interactions, how firms manage and integrate their corporate social responsibility and corporate political efforts, corporate governance and shareholder activism, and business and human rights. This work has been published in the Academy of Management Journal, Business and Society, Journal of Business Ethics, Business and Politics, and Journal of Management Studies. For more information on Kathleen: http://business.marquette.edu/faculty/directory/kathleen-rehbein.

Pawan K. Taneja, PhD, is a Policy Analyst specializing in CSR, project planning and evaluation in the healthcare sector. He is presently working as Sr Faculty at the Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi. He has more than 15 years of experience in teaching, research, and industry. He has coordinated more than 20 research projects in the areas of CSR, healthcare, and climate change supported by UNICEF, WHO, Plan International, and the Government of India.

Shallini Taneja, FPM (PhD), holds the rank of Associate Professor at the FORE School of Management in New Delhi, India. For more than 14 years, Dr Taneja has been teaching, doing research, and writing in the areas of corporate social responsibility, corporate social performance, stakeholder management, and business ethics. She has received sponsorships from ISDRS, Hong Kong, and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. She has also served as an Honorary Advisor to the BRICS Chamber of Commerce & Industry in India, has worked with a number of Indian companies, and has published in the Journal of Business Ethics.

Kanji Tanimoto is Professor in Business and Society at the School of Commerce, Waseda University, Japan. He is Founder and President of an academy Japan Forum of Business and Society. He is an Editorial Member of several journals and has been a Consultant to leading Japanese companies on CSR management over the last 20 years. He also has worked with government committees on issues of business and society. His research interests are the interface between business, government, and society, corporate social responsibility, social business, and social innovation. He has published numerous books and papers. His website: http://tanimoto-office.jp.

Harry Van Buren, III is a Professor of Business and Society at University of New Mexico. He is a Graduate of Syracuse University (BS in Law and Public Policy), the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (MS in Finance), Princeton Theological Seminary (MDiv.), London South Bank University (MSc in Education for Sustainability), and the University of Pittsburgh (PhD in Business Environment, Ethics, and Public Policy). His research has been published in Academy of Management Review, Business & Society, Business and Society Review, Business Ethics Quarterly, Futures, Human Resource Management, Human Resource Management Review, Journal of Business Ethics, and Journal of Management Studies, among other journals.

Juelin Yin is an Associate Professor of Management at the International Business School Suzhou in Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China. Her teaching and research has focused on corporate social responsibility, with a particular interest in the CSR strategies in emerging country contexts. She holds a PhD from Nankai University and did her postdoctoral research at Harvard University. She has published over 10 articles in journals, including Journal of World Business, Journal of Business Ethics, and Business & Society.

Sandra Waddock is the Galligan Chair of Strategy, Carroll School Scholar of Corporate Responsibility and Professor of Management at Boston College’s Carroll School of Management. Recipient of numerous awards, she has published about 140 papers and chapters and 13 books, the latest of which are Healing the World (Routledge/Greenleaf, 2017) and Intellectual Shamans (Cambridge, 2014).

Donna J. Wood (PhD, Sociology, Vanderbilt University) was a Professor at the University of Pittsburgh for 22 years. In 2002, she became the first David W. Wilson Chair in Business Ethics at the University of Northern Iowa, retiring in 2012. She is former President of the International Association for Business and Society, the Society for Business Ethics, and the Social Issues Division of the Academy of Management. She has published numerous books and articles, including the 3rd edition of her textbook, Business Ethics: Text and Workbook. She has received a number of awards for her work, her professional service, and her mentoring. Her current research interests include global business citizenship, corporate social responsibility and performance, and stakeholder theory.