TY - JOUR

T1 - Editorial

T2 - Advancing Corporate Sustainability, CSR, and Business Ethics

AU - Hansen, Erik G.

AU - Zvezdov, Dimitar

AU - Harms, Dorli

AU - Lenssen, Gilbert

N1 - ersch. 2015

PY - 2014

Y1 - 2014

N2 - Environmental, social and ethical issues have become increasingly important for businesses due to changed customer expectations, more regulation and stakeholder pressure, amongst others. This led to the development of concepts such as sustainability management, corporate social responsibility (CSR), stakeholder management and business ethics. Though mostly developed in isolation, scholars have increasingly worked on their integration. This editorial sheds light on (missing) overlaps between these concepts. We find that sustainability management and CSR have become more integrated and are increasingly grounded in an “embedded view“ in which business and society is part of (and constrained by) the natural environment. In contrast, business ethics has not been integrated to the same extent, expect for the subfield of environmental ethics. After this general overview, we introduce the individual contributions to the special issue which are advancing the conceptual and empirical foundation of sustainability management, CSR, and business ethics.

AB - Environmental, social and ethical issues have become increasingly important for businesses due to changed customer expectations, more regulation and stakeholder pressure, amongst others. This led to the development of concepts such as sustainability management, corporate social responsibility (CSR), stakeholder management and business ethics. Though mostly developed in isolation, scholars have increasingly worked on their integration. This editorial sheds light on (missing) overlaps between these concepts. We find that sustainability management and CSR have become more integrated and are increasingly grounded in an “embedded view“ in which business and society is part of (and constrained by) the natural environment. In contrast, business ethics has not been integrated to the same extent, expect for the subfield of environmental ethics. After this general overview, we introduce the individual contributions to the special issue which are advancing the conceptual and empirical foundation of sustainability management, CSR, and business ethics.

KW - Sustainability sciences, Management & Economics

KW - business and society

KW - corporate sustainability

KW - CSR

KW - business ethics

KW - sustainability management

KW - education

KW - sustainable university

KW - planetary boundaries

U2 - 10.5840/bpej201512118

DO - 10.5840/bpej201512118

M3 - Other (editorial matter etc.)

VL - 33

SP - 287

EP - 296

JO - Business & professional ethics journal

JF - Business & professional ethics journal

SN - 0277-2027

IS - 4

ER -