Sub-theme 69: Rethinking the Relationship between Businesses’ Financial and Social Commitments

Convenors:
Matthew Grimes, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Tyler Wry, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Garima Sharma, Georgia State University, USA
Session I: Thursday, July 06, 09:00 to 10:30, Magistero – Centrale – 0_SX 16
Plenary
Chair: Tyler Wry, Matthew Grimes, Garima Sharma
William Ocasio
Corporate purpose: An institutional, logics perspective
Timo van Balen and Theodor Vladasel
Social venture certification and early-stage funding
W. Chad Carlos, Bell Piyasinchai and Shon Hiatt
DO ESG ratings predict firms’ ability to manage risk? An analysis of multiple market intermediaries
Tjarda Molenaar
How do private equity fund managers integrate ESG in their investment decisions? The role of aligning, prioritizing and supporting in bringing businesses’ financial and social commitments together
Session II: Thursday, July 06, 11:00 to 12:30, Magistero – Centrale – 0_SX 16
CSR Tensions
Chair: Katrin Heucher
Katrin S. Heucher and Kevin Chuah
“Blah, Blah, Blah” or Substantive Action? An Analysis of Managers’ Temporal Orientations and Climate Outcomes
Hao Lu, Xiaoyu Liu, Hai W. Wang and Xiaoyu Liu
Corporate social responsibility and financial outcomes: The role of the scope of corporate social responsibility strategies
Frank Figge, Andrea Stevenson Thorpe, Siarhei Manzhynski and Melissa Gutberlet
The collective business case of sustainability. An evolutionary view on when it pays to be sustainable
Minna Tuulia Ahokas
Making sense of the co-existence of profit making and social responsibility – managerial perspective
Session III: Thursday, July 06, 14:00 to 15:30, Magistero – Centrale – 0_SX 16
Entrepreneurship and Other Tensions
Chair: Christian Hampel
Magdalena Plesa
How exogenous shocks affect the management of hybrid tensions in social enterprises
Christian Hampel, Paul Tracey, Neil Stott and Paul Tracey
How impact-focused entrepreneurs deal with the pursuit of profits when addressing grand challenges
Mmekidmfonabasi Umanah and Elisa Alt
Combining financial and social goals: How digital technology oils the chains of hybrid integration in social ventures
Julie Yen
Navigating tensions between worker well-being and productivity: Findings from a 4-day work week trial
Session IV: Friday, July 07, 09:00 to 10:30, Magistero – Centrale – 0_SX 16
Systems and Stakeholders
Chair: Giacomo Ciambotti
Dipti Gupta
Dothe global climate change agreements influence the relationship betweencorporate sustainability performance and firm performance? Developed vsdeveloping countries
Chiara Andreoli and Paolo Taticchi
The failing ideal: tensions around including beneficiaries in impact measurement and management over the investment life-cycle
Gebrehiwot H. Bahita
Does finance impact female owned firms to innovative and contribute in society development
Giacomo Ciambotti, Giovanni Negri, Christina Theodoraki and Giovanni Negri
How entrepreneurial ecosystems support sustainable entrepreneurs in the pursuit of dual mission: Evidence from Africa
Session V: Friday, July 07, 11:00 to 12:30
- Parallel Stream -
Parallel Stream A: Technology, Design & Agency - Room: Magistero – Centrale – 0_SX 16
Chair: Jen Rhymer
Jen Rhymer, Alex Murray and David G. Sirmon
Synthetic Stakeholders: How Non-Traditional Entities Achieve Salience in Organizations
Martin Quinn, Marta Gasparin and William Green
Neo-liberal utopia vs anthropocenic dystopia – What role for organization & innovation
Kevin Curran and Pinar Ozcan
Getting down to business: the impact of rationalized governance in the hybridization of UK charities
Pauline Urban, Lilach Trabelsi, Kerstin Neumann and Uriel Stettner
Dedicated sustainability functions and firms’ sustainability performance: Evidence from the food and beverage industry
Parallel Stream B: Mission Drift & Scaling - Room: Magistero – Centrale – 0_SX 13
Chair: Katalin Takacs Haynes
Coline Serres and Ariane Szafarz
The reciprocal ratchet effect: Identifying social enterprises and mission drift through stakeholder reciprocity
Katalin Takacs Haynes and Bethany Cockburn
Return to moral markets? Revisiting Adam Smith’s other message
Emilie K. Aguirre
Money or Mission: Uncovering Venture Capital Barriers to Social Startup Success
Filip De Beule and Matthias Staessens
The interface between goal orientation, entrepreneurial orientation, and scaling of social enterprises
Session VI: Friday, July 07, 14:00 to 15:30
- Parallel Stream -
Parallel Stream A: Place & Entrepreneurship - Room: Magistero – Centrale – 0_SX 16
Chair: Nkosana Mafico
Ganqi (Gage) Tang, Emmanuelle Fauchart and Tatiana Zabara
From complexity to hybridity: A creation model of founder identity
Emmanuelle Fauchart, Tatiana Zabara and Ganqi (Gage) Tang
Founder social identity formation: An empirical study into the role of values and prior experience
Nkosana Mafico, Anna Krzeminska , Charmine Hartel, Josh Keller, Josh Keller, Anna Krzeminska and Charmine Hartel
The Social Categorization Paradox: Unpacking the performative relationship between impact investors and social entrepreneurs
Soniya Rijal, Josh Keller and Hokyu Hwang
Navigating beneficiaries’ tensions for social impact: A case study of microfinance organizations in Nepal
Parallel Stream B: Identity, Culture & Entrepreneurship - Room: Magistero – Centrale – 0_SX 13
Chair: Katherine H. Parsons
Katherine H. Parsons and Rick Delbridge
Creating ‘the socially purposeful start-up’: Constructing meaning as a hybrid organisational form during new venture creation
Benjamin Huybrechts, Julie Fabbri and Santi Furnari
From pollination space to place to be(e): Mission transformation and spatial repurposing in a French social entrepreneurship coworking space
Esther Leibel and Natalya Vinokurova
Translating social innovations to achieve “spacial scale”: Exploring the role of cognitive and experiential search
Alessandra Luzzi and Sheryl Winston Smith
Scaling social business hybrids: A multiple case study on the role of learning
Session VII: Saturday, July 08, 09:00 to 10:30
- Parallel Stream -
Parallel Stream A: CSR & Legitimacy - Room: Magistero – Centrale – 0_SX 16
Chair: Harsh Kumar Jha
Wei Wang and Klaus Weber
From Pledges to Practice: Organizational Rationality Orientation and Firms' Environmental Sustainability Practices
Matthias Staessens, Adrien Billiet, Adrien Billiet and Johan Bruneel
Response strategies and CEOs’ perception about moral legitimacy of hybrid organizations: Empirical evidence from Belgian WISEs
Harsh Jha, Andrew Kozhevnikov and Dimitry Jacob
The influence of corporate scandals on the type of legitimacy claims made in CSR reports
Lorenzo Skade, Jochen Koch and Eric Knight
“Senator, we run ads!” On the legitimation of Facebook’s negative societal side effects
Parallel Stream B: CSR & Leadership - Room: Magistero – PS – 1_4B
Chair: Marion Neukam
Marion Neukam, Sophie Bollinger and Claude Guittard
Reimagine leadership to align a firm’s mission with a sustainable innovation strategy
Gabriella Padilla and Johan Bruneel
The behavioral theory of CSR performance: The role of organizational goal orientation and the dominant coalition
Rubén Ordóñez Borrallo, Natalia Ortiz-de-Mandojana, Javier Delgado-Ceballos and Natalia Ortiz-de-Mandojana
Improving environment performance after corporate green bonds issuance
Julianna Kiss, Éva Révész, Noémi Krátki, Ákos Nagy, Réka Papik, Andrea Toarniczky, Réka Matolay, Máté Farkas-Kis, Laura Sági, Anna Rozványi and Boglárka Héra
Hybrid tensions through leadership challenges in social enterprises
Session VIII: Saturday, July 08, 11:00 to 12:30
- Parallel Stream -
Parallel Stream A: Institutions and Tensions - Room: Magistero – Centrale – 0_SX 16
Chair: Jared L. Peifer
Jared L. Peifer
Peripheral Institutional Entrepreneurs’ Reactions to the Mainstreaming of ESG Investing in the United States
Josephine A. McKenzie, Sukhbir Sandhu and Carol T. Kulik
When style meets sustainability: Fashion organizations responses to institutional complexity
Parallel Stream B: Closing - Room: Magistero – PS – 1_4B
Chair: Tyler Wry, Matthew Grimes, Garima Sharma
Alexander Viets and Christopher Sabel
Interorganizational Relationships and Hybrid Organizations: Understanding Antecedents and Outcomes
Brigitte Bernard-Rau and Timo Busch
Financefor the common good: Clarifying the epistemology of impact investing