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Special Issues Dedicated to CSR and Corporate Sustainability: A Review and Commentary

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Publication date: Available online 7 April 2015
Source:Long Range Planning

Author(s): Robert Kudłak , Kathleen Y.J. Low

In this paper we examine the status of the research concerning Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and sustainability in the management literature. Specifically, we investigate the special issues dedicated to CSR and sustainability published in the CSR-specific, as well as general management and international business journals since 2009. Our review indicates that the majority of the identified special issues have been publicized in the CSR-specific journals; however, few dedicated volumes in the core management journals seem to signal an increased interest in CSR topics among these journals. The variety of topics in the identified special issues can be categorized into two groups: one concentrating on the contemporary corporations as agents of change in modern societies; and the other endeavouring to explicate the infiltration of responsibility-related values through corporate organizational structures and functions. A look at the recently open calls for papers suggests that scholars will continue their efforts to shed more light on the two topics. In the concluding remarks, we highlight some promising and rarely investigated in the CSR literature subjects.






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The Behavioral Basis of Policies Fostering Long-Run Transitions: Stakeholders, Limited Rationality and Social Context

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Publication date: Available online 4 April 2015
Source:Futures

Author(s): Ardjan Gazheli , Miklós Antal , Jeroen van den Bergh

Writings on sustainability transitions generally pay slight attention to the specific behavioral characteristics of individuals, groups and organizations. This paper examines how modern insights about bounded rationality, social interaction and learning can contribute to making transition polices more effective in addressing barriers and opportunities to realize a sustainability transition in the near future. We argue that the behavioral underpinnings of features like lock-in, surprises in innovation systems, and network interactions have been insufficiently elaborated and connected to policy design. We identify and illustrate the most important behavioral features of relevant stakeholders in transition processes. By focusing on behavioral features at both individual and organizational levels, we arrive at recommendations for policy makers regarding important barriers to change and how to overcome these. Specific policy insights are offered at multiple levels, for different stakeholders, and associated with both behavioral biases and social interactions. The analysis combines insights from the literatures on sustainability transitions, “environmental-behavioral economics”, and behavioral foundations of learning and innovation. Our framework may serve as a basis for coherent behavior studies of transitions that otherwise run the risk of being ad hoc. This will improve conditional forecasting of system responses to transition policies.






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Pathways to achieve a set of ambitious global sustainability objectives by 2050: Explorations using the IMAGE integrated assessment model

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Publication date: Available online 31 March 2015
Source:Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Author(s): Detlef P. van Vuuren , Marcel Kok , Paul L. Lucas , Anne Gerdien Prins , Rob Alkemade , Maurits van den Berg , Lex Bouwman , Stefan van der Esch , Michel Jeuken , Tom Kram , Elke Stehfest

In 2012, governments worldwide renewed their commitments to a more sustainable development that would eradicate poverty, halt climate change and conserve ecosystems, and initiated a process to create a long-term vision by formulating Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Although progress in achieving a more sustainable development has been made in some areas, overall, actions have not been able to bend the trend in critical areas (including those related to the so-called food-water-energy nexus). Here, we analyze how different combinations of technological measures and behavioral changes could contribute to achieving a set of sustainability objectives, taking into account the interlinkages between them. The objectives include eradicating hunger, providing universal access to modern energy, preventing dangerous climate change, conserving biodiversity and controlling air pollution. The analysis identifies different pathways that achieve these objectives simultaneously, but they all require substantial transformations in the energy and food systems, that go far beyond historic progress and currently formulated policies. The analysis also shows synergies and trade-offs between achieving the different objectives, concluding that achieving them requires a comprehensive approach. The scenario analysis does not point at a fundamental trade-off between the objectives related to poverty eradication and those related to environmental sustainability. The different pathways of achieving the set of long-term objectives and their implications for short-term action can contribute to building a comprehensive strategy to meet the SDGs by proposing near-term actions.






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