... diverse organizational actors with high levels of commitment to sustain contention for Movement goals. The chapter provides a framework to understand how the Movement can achieve its goal of safeguarding the effective practice of CSR within firms and across the planet. Benefit Corporation B Corps social...

.... Instead, directors may prioritize or neglect shareholders or social good as long as they consider the impact of their decisions on the other interests and stakeholders. Minnesota’s public benefit corporation presents a sort of exception in that it prohibits directors from directly, regularly...

...Thus, our focus is on benefit corporations that serve individuals or communities that are underserved by a purely market based economic systems. By definition these are areas of poverty that are currently incapable of providing a market return to investors. We view the benefit corporation model...

...Abstract Benefit corporations are a form of incorporation that require management to pursue some specified social goal or benefit, even if this goal requires sacrificing profit maximization. Hence, benefit corporations are considered a new business model that explicitly incorporates a socially...