Purpose is a concept often used in managerial communities to signal and define a firm's
benevolent and pluralistic approach to its stakeholders beyond its focus on shareholders …

Benefit corporations (BCs) and certified benefit corporations (B Corps) are organizations
committed, beyond profit, to leveraging positive environmental and social impacts …

Abstract The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are increasingly used
by corporations for benchmarking and communicating their sustainability performance. The …

The growing number of studies referencing the concept of mission drift implies that such drift
is an undesirable strategic outcome related to inconsistent organizational action, yet beyond …

The B Corp certification recognizes high social and environmental performance in business.
This performance is measured in five pillars—Governance, Workers, Community …

Why would an organization pursue membership in an organizational category, yet forego
opportunities to subsequently promote that membership? Drawing on prior research, we …

Despite widespread and growing public interest in sustainability certifications, many social
entrepreneurs have opted not to obtain such certification. Drawing on recent studies …

Abstract Research Summary Digital platforms offer a promising contemporary means for
encouraging social innovation through cross‐sector collaboration. Yet although such “social …

Certified B Corporations are ventures that have chosen to embrace third party voluntary
social and environmental audits conducted by an entrepreneurial non-profit enterprise …

This paper explores the emergence of B Corp as a new research field through a bibliometric
analysis of the B Corp literature, based on a database of 142 documents collected by …