Entrepreneurial ventures that explicitly address social and environmental issues have
proliferated, together with diverse but strictly connected research streams and academic …

Benefit corporations (BCs) and certified benefit corporations (B Corps) are organizations
committed, beyond profit, to leveraging positive environmental and social impacts …

This study aims to identify the sustainable business practices operationalized in the
sustainable business models of manufacturing companies and highlights these companies' …

This paper investigates the effect of sustainability certification on the short-term growth rates
of socially responsible companies. A changing business environment in which stakeholders …

An increasing number of entrepreneurial ventures are growing at exponential rates despite
their founders' professed intentions not to grow their firms. We refer to these individuals as …

Prior research on social entrepreneurship highlights the role and importance of values in
managing change, yet few studies examine processes of managing values to achieve social …

This paper explores the emergence of B Corp as a new research field through a bibliometric
analysis of the B Corp literature, based on a database of 142 documents collected by …

Myriad cross-sector initiatives seek to remake capitalism into a more just, sustainable, and
inclusive system. But how do these distributed efforts—which often vary in strength …

The objective of this study was to understand how gig-workers interpret the effects of their
laboral activity on their wellbeing. We developed a grounded theory based on interviews …

In the age of accountability, companies are asked to communicate the social impact of their
operations. Assessed by a nonprofit organization, B Lab, the B Impact Assessment (BIA) …