Society and Business Review: Volume 12 Issue 1

Editorial

Yvon Pesqueux

Entrepreneurship and ethics under extreme conditions of poverty: “Exploring the realities”

Tendai Chikweche, Richard Fletcher

This article investigates the relationship between entrepreneurship and ethics under extreme poverty conditions to unearth context-specific nuances faced by entrepreneurs in these…

Brand religiosity: An epistemological analysis of the formation of social anti-structure through the development of distinct brand sub-culture

Juhi Gahlot Sarkar, Abhigyan Sarkar

The purpose of this paper is to define the brand religiosity phenomenon and develop a theoretical process model showing the interrelationships between brand religiosity and other…

Sing Hosanna for the brands: the process of substituting religion with brand

Abhigyan Sarkar, Juhi Gahlot Sarkar

Extant research shows that individual’s relationship with brand can be structurally similar to both interpersonal love relationship and religious relationship. A stream of…

Toward a spirituality mode of firm sustainability strategic planning processes

Katelin Barron, Shih Yung Chou

This paper aims to develop a spirituality mode of firm strategic planning processes that incorporate four basic firm spirituality elements, namely, transcendence, an inexhaustible…

The hunt for the precious wood: Illegal trade of sandalwood as an international criminal enterprise in Kenya

Emmanuel K. Bunei

This paper aims to explore the complex underpinnings and dynamics of increasing trend of illegal trading of high-value forest tress such as sandalwood in rural parts of Kenya…

Sustainable business strategies: typologies and future directions

Jeffrey Gauthier

The purpose of this paper is to develop a typology of sustainable business strategies that may help to guide future empirical research.

Reflections on CSR: the case of Egypt

Menatallah Darrag, David Crowther

The purpose of this paper is to review the corporate social responsibility (CSR) concept in Egypt via six sub-purposes which are the operational definition, activities…