Society and Business Review: Volume 14 Issue 4

Understanding of grassroots innovations in India: evidence from the countryside

Sazzad Parwez, K. Chandra Shekar

Disadvantaged regions in India suffer from various forms of problems aggravated by constraints of accessibility. This paper aims to conceptualize innovations as solutions to the…

Worlds apart: an investigation of South Africa’s established and emerging middle class consumers

James Lappeman, Caitlin Ferreira, Jeandri Robertson, Tendai Chikweche

The purpose of the paper is to investigate the nature of variations among established and emerging middle class consumers in South Africa in response to the institution context…

Challenging the meaning of globalisation in Tunisian context: Social representation for public accountants

Wafa Khlif, Sami El Omari, Helmi Hammami

In accounting, several studied Arab countries are keen to acquire the dominant Western thinking categories that justify and normalize the exerted domination, especially when it…

Reintegrating prâxis, practices, phrónêsis and sustainable action for the relationship between business and society

Wendelin Kuepers

This paper aims to propose to rehabilitate prâxis and revive possibilities of practical wisdom (phrónêsis) and a reinterpret excellence as an ethically committed way for…

Negotiating new institutional logics: Market access amongst smallholder farmers in Zambia and Malawi

John Manuel Luiz, Kondwani Kachika, Tapfumaneyi Kudzurunga

This paper aims to analyse how processes of institutional change in environments of institutional 'voids' affect smallholder farmer market access in Zambia and Malawi, and…

Guest editorial

Rémi Jardat, Jérôme Meric, Corinne Vercher

Corporate social responsibility (CSR): an institutionalist Polanyian analysis

Nicolas Postel, Richard Sobel

This study aims to focus on the understanding corporate social responsibility (CSR), this “novel” form of corporate engagement, and evaluating its capacity to regulate capitalism…

(Re) discovering the business purpose: A discursive approach to CSR and stakeholder management

Muhammad Atif

This study aims to focus on the purpose and legitimacy of business, notably, the organizational purpose, the conventional view that the purpose of business is to optimize the…

The entrepreneur-salaried employee-associate: An autonomous wage-earner or a dependent entrepreneur?

Justine Ballon

The increasing number of self-employed workers in France transforms the historical work relationship. In this perspective, the case of entrepreneurs who works in Business and…