This Research Topic is part of an annual Community Series.
The Business Roundtable campaign urges companies to issue a purpose statement to ensure better, and more transparent socially responsible corporate governance that delivers value for all stakeholders’ future success in business, communities and country. However, is a social purpose different for global organizations versus domestic organizations? Moreover, is a social purpose necessary in lieu of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012 whereby public sector organizations should consider social value in service contracts or where there is a service element in goods or works contracts? The challenge of transforming an organization, community and a country generates contradictory stakeholder demands that require reframing business, government and society through a social purpose.
Therefore, this Research Topic seeks to better understand potential limitations and opportunities to advance social purpose in organizations by integrating profits with other business purposes that have often been accomplished through blurred sectors. Contributors are encouraged to explore the differing social purpose approaches, forms of resistance, nested tensions, and interwoven contradictions of defining and developing a social purpose in organizations to improve business, government and society in domestic and global communities.
The editors welcome manuscripts from all research methods that address social purpose broadly and contextually within specific industries, organizational types, structures and business models, as well as across different sectors. We are particularly interested in manuscripts that address interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches for advancing social purpose globally and nationally within a firm and/or a government’s social license to operate. In addition, the editors encourage manuscript submissions that address the ambiguity of ‘social purpose’ within societal change and transformation across disciplines such as responsible investments, medicine, education, social networks, healthcare management, COVID-19 response, marketing, innovation, entrepreneurship, diversity, equity and inclusion, leadership, tourism and hospitality management, governance, regulations, leadership, organizational performance, business ethics, operations management, global value chains, supply chain management, environmental management, human resource management, strategic management, public policy, responsible management, technology, bioethics, economics, finance, trade, partnerships, and corporate and government responsibility.
This Research Topic is part of an annual Community Series.
The Business Roundtable campaign urges companies to issue a purpose statement to ensure better, and more transparent socially responsible corporate governance that delivers value for all stakeholders’ future success in business, communities and country. However, is a social purpose different for global organizations versus domestic organizations? Moreover, is a social purpose necessary in lieu of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012 whereby public sector organizations should consider social value in service contracts or where there is a service element in goods or works contracts? The challenge of transforming an organization, community and a country generates contradictory stakeholder demands that require reframing business, government and society through a social purpose.
Therefore, this Research Topic seeks to better understand potential limitations and opportunities to advance social purpose in organizations by integrating profits with other business purposes that have often been accomplished through blurred sectors. Contributors are encouraged to explore the differing social purpose approaches, forms of resistance, nested tensions, and interwoven contradictions of defining and developing a social purpose in organizations to improve business, government and society in domestic and global communities.
The editors welcome manuscripts from all research methods that address social purpose broadly and contextually within specific industries, organizational types, structures and business models, as well as across different sectors. We are particularly interested in manuscripts that address interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches for advancing social purpose globally and nationally within a firm and/or a government’s social license to operate. In addition, the editors encourage manuscript submissions that address the ambiguity of ‘social purpose’ within societal change and transformation across disciplines such as responsible investments, medicine, education, social networks, healthcare management, COVID-19 response, marketing, innovation, entrepreneurship, diversity, equity and inclusion, leadership, tourism and hospitality management, governance, regulations, leadership, organizational performance, business ethics, operations management, global value chains, supply chain management, environmental management, human resource management, strategic management, public policy, responsible management, technology, bioethics, economics, finance, trade, partnerships, and corporate and government responsibility.
