Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: Volume 16 Issue 3/4

Pathways for advancing the scholarship on transformation towards a sustainable and equitable community

Gagan Deep Sharma, Meenakshi Handa

Zebras showing their stripes: a critical sense-making study of women CSR leaders

Jennifer Cherneski

The purpose of this research is to reveal the gendered nature of social arrangements in order to bring to the surface the hidden discourses that mediate the opportunities of women…

Corporate sustainability: the new organizational reality

Upasana Dhanda, Vijay Kumar Shrotryia

Today, corporate sustainability is at a tipping point. With average lifespan of organizations shrinking, striving for corporate longevity and sustainability has become…

Hard/heart worker: work intensification in purpose-driven organizations

Katia Dupret, Sabina Pultz

The paper seeks to illuminate the intersection between doing greater good in the world and the self-disciplining that comes along with it. The paper raises a discussion on how…

Social entrepreneurship for scalable solutions addressing sustainable development goals (SDGs) at BoP in India

Sandeep Goyal, Anirudh Agrawal, Bruno S. Sergi

The study addresses the crucial issue of sustainable development goals (SDGs) and institutional voids in the peri-urban geographies of India. The peri-urban geographies, though…

Study of sustainability issues in an Indian logistics service provider: SAP-LAP approach

Anchal Gupta, Rajesh Kumar Singh

The purpose of this study is to analyze sustainability issues in the context of logistics service providers (LSPs) and to evaluate the sustainability index of an LSP in the Indian…

Promoting sustainable palm oil in supply chain strategy: a food business case study

Emel Kasim, Johanna Stöhr, Christian Herzig

The study aims to enhance our understanding of strategizing sustainable palm oil at company level and to bridge the gap between strategy formulation and implementation. In this…

Financial well-being for a sustainable society: a road less travelled

Mandeep Mahendru

Measurement of financial well-being has remained a challenge for the governments for a long time. This paper responds to this challenge by taking an integrative approach, whereby…

Under pressure: exploring pressures for corporate social responsibility in mutual funds

Caddie Putnam Rankin

This empirical study seeks to understand how mutual fund firms interpret conflicting pressures to conform or differentiate in the context of corporate social responsibility (CSR)…

Integrated sustainable supply chain management and firm performance in the Indian textile industry

Shashi K. Shahi, Atul Shiva, Mohamed Dia

This research study explores the adoption of integrated sustainable SCM practices in the textile industry in India and its impact on the firm's business performance.

Non-Indigenous partner perspectives on Indigenous peoples' involvement in renewable energy: exploring reconciliation as relationships of accountability or status quo innocence?

Chad J.R. Walker, Mary Beth Doucette, Sarah Rotz, Diana Lewis, Hannah Tait Neufeld, Heather Castleden

This research considers the potential for renewable energy partnerships to contribute to Canada's efforts to overcome its colonial past and present by developing an understanding…

Gender, race and power: an intersectional reading of “opting out”

Georgianna Meléndez, Banu Özkazanç-Pan

This paper considers the phenomenon of “opting out” from an intersectional lens, bringing in hitherto undertheorized dimensions of gender, race and power into the conversation…

“Procedure versus practice”: navigating ethical tensions in social entrepreneurship research involving vulnerable people in the developing world

Diana Lorenzo-Afable, Smita Singh, Marjolein Lips-Wiersma

This paper examines the ethical tensions in social entrepreneurship (SE) research by focusing on the ethical consequences of obtaining ethics approval in a university in the…