Journal of Management Development: Volume 30 Issue 10

Introduction to the special issue: integrating sustainability in business models

Jorge A. Arevalo, Itziar Castelló, Simone de Colle, Gilbert Lenssen, Kerstin Neumann, Maurizio Zollo

The purpose of this paper is to introduce this special issue, conceptualized and realized by a group of scholars engaged in the Global Organizational Learning and Development…

CSR and development: a mining company in Africa

Josep F. Mària SJ, Emmanuelle Devuyst

This case study seeks to present the CSR activity of a mining company in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the conflict between the company and its local stakeholders. The…

Hayleys PLC: corporate responsibility as stakeholder relations

Mark Lee Hunter, Luk N. Van Wassenhove

This paper aims to answer the following questions: Is corporate responsibility only a cost, or is it also a profitable business strategy? If so, can the strategy work in a B2B…

CSR in Asian logistics: operationalisation within DHL (Thailand)

David Ferguson

This paper aims to provide an insight around operationalising CSR and sustainability activities within an Asian‐Pacific subsidiary of a leading CSR global third‐party logistics…

Integration of company responsibility, the learning process: the Autogrill case

Rosario Ragusa

The purpose of this research is to provide an insight into the learning process leading to the integration of company responsibility, in companies that are moving from a generic…

Embedding corporate responsibility and sustainability: Marks & Spencer

David Grayson

The British retailer Marks & Spencer aspires to be the world's most sustainable major global retailer by 2015. This paper seeks to examine how the company is embedding…

Acciona: a process of transformation towards sustainability

Daniel Arenas, Jeremie Fosse, Matthew Murphy

This teaching case seeks to explain the main aspects of Acciona's sustainability strategy and the process of transformation of the company after the new CEO took office in 2004…

Sabaf: moving to a learning environment

Nigel Roome, Céline Louche

Sabaf, a world‐leading manufacturer of components for domestic gas cooking appliances, went through a transformation process between 1993 and 2005 to develop a strategic approach…

Embedding CSR as a learning and knowledge creating process: the case for SMEs in Norway

Heidi von Weltzien Hoivik

This case study aims to single out two companies in Norway belonging to the NCE Subsea cluster in the Bergen region, which are in the process of developing internationalization…