The Institute for Business in Society supports academic research across a variety of fields and interests to advance the role of business in the creation of a fairer, and more productive, abundant and connected world. A curated list of publications on the subject of Stakeholder Theory is available here.  

Recent Articles and Chapters

  • 2024 - Present

    Freeman, R.E. and Menghwar, P. (2025) “Stakeholder Theory and Communities: Navigating Processes of Meaningful Engagement with Marginalized Communities." in The Routledge Handbook on Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement

    Freeman, R.E., van den Linden, B. and Wicks, A.C. (2024) "How to Assess Multiple-Value Accounting Narratives from a Value Pluralist Perspective? Some Metaethical Criteria" Journal of Business Ethics.

    Freeman, R.E., De Colle, S., and Wicks, A. C. (2024) “Towards a Humanistic Business Ethics.“ Business & Society.

    Freeman, R.E., (2024) “Forward: Conversations on Ethics and Business“ in A Guide to Thinking about Workplace Ethics.

    Freeman, R.E., Busch, T., Barnett, M. L., Burritt, R. L., Cashore, B. W., Henriques, I., Husted, B. W., Panwar, R., Pinkse, J., Schaltegger, S., (2024) “Moving beyond 'The' Business Case: How to Make Corporate Sustainability Work.” Business Strategy and the Environment.

    Freeman, R.E., Civera, C., and Dmytriyev, S.“Letters to Stakeholders.” (2024) Business Ethics, the Environment & Responsibility.

    Freeman, R.E., Chowdhury, R., and Sarasvathy, S.D. (2024) “Toward a Theory of Marginalized Stakeholder-Centric Entrepreneurship." Business Ethics Quarterly.

    Harris, J.D., Souder, D., Shaver, M., and Alrashdan, M. (2024). “Performance Metrics in Strategy Research: A Decision Guide and Method for Assessing Dynamic Value,” Strategic Management Journal 45(1): 144-167.

    Kaufmann, L. & Botha, H. Who Loses in Win-Win Investing? A Mixed Methods Study of Impact Risk. Forthcoming at Journal of Business Ethics

    Kaufmann, L. "Should Your Company Be as Diverse as the Community in Which It Is Located?" Forthcoming in Business Ethics: Philosophy, Policy, and Management. (Eds. Vikram Bhargava & Michael Kates). Routledge.

    Kaufmann, L., Krlev, G. & Brown, M. (2025). "In Plain Sight: Mechanisms of Means-Ends Decoupling in Impact Investing." Organization Studies, 46(5): 667-692. 

    Kaufmann, L. & Derry, R. (2024). "On Valuing Women: Advancing an Intersectional Theory of Gender Diversity in Organizations." Academy of Management Review, 49(4): 775-798.

    Shah, M.U., Rehman, U., Parmar, B.L., & Ismail, I. (2024). "Effects of moral violation on algorithmic transparency: An empirical investigation." Journal of Business Ethics, 1–16.

  • 2022 - 2023

    Freeman, R.E. and Freeman, B. (2023) “Business in a Post-COVID World: The Move to Stakeholder Capitalism." Journal of Human Values, 29(2): 105-114.

    Freeman, R.E., Van der Linden, B., and Wicks, A.C. (2023) "Value Pluralism and Accountability in Business." Journal of Business Ethics.

    Freeman, R.E., Wicks, A.C., & DeColle, S. (2023). "Towards Humanistic Business Ethics." Business and Society.

    Hagerty, S. F., Mohan, B., and Norton, M.I. (2023), “Whose Pay Should Be Cut in Economic Crises? Consumers Prefer Firms That Prioritize Paying Employees Over CEOs,” Behavioural Public Policy.

    Collins, H.K.,Hagerty, S. F., Brooks, A.W., Quoidbach, J., and Norton, M.I. (2022), “Relational Diversity in Social Portfolios Predicts Well-Being,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

    Quinn, R.W., Crane, B., Harris, J.D., and Manikas, A. (2023). “Designed Organizational Search: A Comparative Analysis of Alternative Procedures for Learning From Success,” Journal of Applied Behavioral Science 59(3): 391-425.

    Harris, J.D. (2022) “Strategy Lessons From Shakespeare? Humanities and the Soul of Business.” chapter in Humanizing Business: What Humanities Can Say to Business. Springer.

    Kaufmann, L. (2023). "We Are Not Born Submissive: How Patriarchy Shapes Women's Lives," by Manon Garcia. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. 234 pp. Business Ethics Quarterly, 33(4): 777-780.

    Kaufmann, L. ( 2022). Feminist Epistemology and Business Ethics. Business Ethics Quarterly, 32 (4): 546-572. 

    Ong, M., Lee, J., & Parmar, B.L. (2023). Lay beliefs about homo economicus: how and why does economics education make us see honesty as effortful? Academy of Management Learning and Education.

    Parmar, B.L., Wicks, A. C., & Ginena, K. (2023). "The impact of employee stakeholder orientation on job satisfaction and perspective-taking." Business & Society.

    Parmar, B.L., Wicks, A.C., & Freeman, R.E. (2022). "Stakeholder management & the value of human-centered corporate objectives." Journal of Management Studies, 59 (2): 569–582.

    Wicks, A.C., Brown, J., and Forster B. (2023) "The Fork in the Road for Social Enterprises: Leveraging Moral Imagination for Long-Term Stakeholder Support." Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Vol. 47: 91-112. 

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