This Thematic Collection advances a multilevel, person-centred perspective on how macro-, meso-, and micro-level organizational dynamics interact to shape sustainability. It identifies four research clusters that demonstrate how formal sustainability commitments are shaped by social processes and individual experiences across organizational levels. Together, these clusters underscore the central role of people management processes in explaining how and why sustainability goals are translated into organizational action.
Reframing Top-Down and Bottom-Up Dynamics in Sustainability Research: A Multilevel Framework for OB/HRM Scholars
Chidiebere Ogbonnaya, Tiffany Trzebiatowski & Hannes Leroy
Social enterprise emergence from social movement activism: The Fairphone case
Ona Akemu, Gail Whiteman & Steve Kennedy
Selling issues with solutions: Igniting social intrapreneurship in for-profit organizations
Elisa Alt & Justin B. Craig
Negative spillovers across partnerships for responsible innovation: Evidence from the 2014 Ebola outbreak
Birgul Arslan & Murat Tarakci
Governing inter-organizational collaboration through purpose work and purpose borrowing: How social enterprises’ normative aspirations influence business partners’ practices
Ignas M. Bruder & Jörg Sydow
Kicking off social entrepreneurship: How a sustainability orientation influences crowdfunding success
Goran Calic & Elaine Mosakowski
Set & done? Trade-offs between stakeholder expectation and attainment pressures in corporate carbon target management
Patrick J. Callery & Eun-Hee Kim
When stakeholder representation leads to faultlines. A study of board service performance in social enterprises
Saski Crucke & Mirjam Knockaert
Getting down to business: Governing the hybridization of UK charities
Kevin Curran & Pinar Ozcan
Penalty zones in international sustainability standards: Where improved sustainability doesn’t pay
Nicole Darnall, Konstantinos Iatridis, Effie Kesidou & Annie Snelson-Powell
Giving the benefit of the doubt: Investigating the insurance-like effect of CSR in mitigating negative employee reactions to psychological contract breach
Kenneth De Roeck, Nicolas Raineri, David A. Jones & Sabrina Scheidler
Managing legitimacy in business-driven social change: The role of relational work
Verena Girschik
To frack or not to frack? The interaction of justification and power in a sustainability controversy
Jean-Pascal Gond, Luciano Barin Cruz, Emmanuel Raufflet & Mathieu Charron
The choices we collectively make: Orchestrating hybridity to tackle grand challenges
Tiffany Grabski-Walls & Tina C. Ambos
Employee-CSR tensions: Drivers of employee (dis)engagement with contested CSR initiatives
Tobias Hahn, Garima Sharma & Ante Glavas
Intergenerational fairness and the crowding out effects of well-intended environmental policies
Richard A. Hunt & Bret R. Fund
The persistence or diminishment of employee stewardship behaviour: Exploring the crucial roles of supervisors’ cultural orientation, admiration, and status conferral
Yongjun Kang, Qi Nie & Jian Peng
Green screening: Firm environmental strategy amidst policy implementation uncertainty in the European Union
Eun-Hee Kim, Shon R. Hiatt & Y. Maggie Zhou
Community inclusion under systemic inequality: How for-profit businesses pursue social purpose
Addisu Lashitew, Oana Branzei & Rob van Tulder
The political dynamics of sustainable coffee: Contested value regimes and the transformation of sustainability
David Levy, Juliane Reinecke & Stephan Manning
The why, how, and when of CSR managers’ internal legitimation strategies
Cynthia Loos & Katharina Spraul
Business statesman or shareholder advocate? CEO responsible leadership styles and the micro-foundations of political CSR
Thomas Maak, Nicola M. Pless & Christian Voegtlin
The political side of social enterprises: A phenomenon-based study of sociocultural and policy advocacy
Johanna Mair & Nikolas Rathert
How is the illusio of gender equality in entrepreneurship sustained? A Bourdieusian perspective
Elina Meliou & Mustafa Ozbilgin
Polycentric governance of privately owned resources in circular economy systems
Samuli Patala, Laura Albareda & Minna Halme
A more ethical workplace? How and why perceived socially responsible human resource management makes a difference
Nhat Tan Pham, Jintao Lu, Chidiebere Ogbonnaya, Tran Hoang Tuan, William Y. Degbey & Benjamin Laker
Floodlight or spotlight? Public attention and the selective disclosure of environmental information
Shawn Pope, Jonathan Peillex, Imane El Ouadghiri & Mathieu Gomes
Social enterprise referents: How social enterprises help organize nascent fields to address complex societal problems
Pauline C. Reinecke & Thomas Wrona
Causal mechanisms in corporate social responsibility (CSR) management: A meta-synthesis of micro-CSR research
Stefanie Remmer & Dirk Ulrich Gilbert
Maintaining moral legitimacy through worlds and words: An explanation of firms’ investment in sustainability certification
Melanie Richards, Thomas Zellweger & Jean-Pascal Gond
Cross-sector partnership research at theoretical interstices: Integrating and advancing theory across phases
Mohamad Sadri, Angela Aristidou & Davide Ravasi
Social entrepreneurs as ecosystem catalysts: The dynamics of forming and withdrawing from a self-sustaining ecosystem
Paulo Savaget, Pinar Ozcan & Tyrone Pitsis
Managing for political corporate social responsibility: New challenges and directions for PCSR 2.0
Andreas Georg Scherer, Andreas Rasche, Guido Palazzo & André Spicer
Why firms delay reaching true sustainability
Anton Shevchenko, Moren Lévesque & Mark Pagell
Governing corporations in national and transnational spaces: Cross-level governmental orchestration of corporate social responsibility in South Korea
Hyemi Shin & Jean-Pascal Gond
Cross-sector partnerships to address societal grand challenges: Systematizing differences in scholarly analysis
Lea Stadtler, M. May Seitanidi, Helena H. Knight, Jennifer Leigh, Amelia Clarke, Marlene Janzen Le Ber, Jill Bogie, Priyanka Brunese, Oda Hustad, Ioannis Krasonikolakis, Eleni Lioliou, Adriane MacDonald, Jonatan Pinkse & Sarita Sehgal
How social entrepreneurs facilitate the adoption of new industry practices
Theodore L. Waldron, Greg Fisher & Michael Pfarrer
Catch up with the good and stay away from the Bad: CEO decisions on the appointment of chief sustainability officers
Taiyuan Wang, Yingzhu Fu, Oliver Rui & Julio De Castro
Social value creation in inter-organizational collaborations in the not-for-profit sector–give and take from a dyadic perspective
Christiana Weber, Kathrin Weidner, Arne Kroeger & James Wallace
Planetary boundaries: Ecological foundations for corporate sustainability
Gail Whiteman, Brian Walker & Paolo Perego
Exploring environmental entrepreneurship: Identity coupling, venture goals, and stakeholder incentives
Jeffrey G. York, Isobel O’Neil & Saras D. Sarasvathy
