Special issue of business, strategy, and the environment call for papers business, society, biodiversity, and natural capital deadline June 30, 2020 (see details of conference/workshop at the end of the call for paper)

The impact of sustainability on supplier selection: A behavioural study

“…Notably, in response to a rapidly increasing interest among operations managers, researchers and stakeholders in the influence of multiple sustainability dimensions (Linton et al, 2007;Seuring and Müller, 2008;Choi an Ng, 2011;Kannan, 2018;Raut et al, 2020), recent studies on sustainability have provided significant theoretical insights from operations and supply chain management perspectives. These insights are featured in various special issues and articles of leading journals, including the Journal of Operations Management (Boone and Ganeshan, 2007), the International Journal of Operations and Production Management (Gold et al, 2019), Business Strategy and the Environment (Gibassier et al, 2019) and the International Journal of Production Research (Kusi-Sarpong, 2020).…”

The uncomfortable relationship between business and biodiversity: Advancing research on business strategies for biodiversity protection

“…Such a colossal decline in biodiversity will exacerbate climate change, threaten food security, increase risks to human health, and endanger the cultural fabric and livelihoods of many rural and Indigenous communities. Such decline will also have significant economic implications because biodiversity is the backbone of many industries and a source of employment for billions of people (Gibassier et al, 2019).…”

“…The role of business in causing and halting biodiversity loss has come to the fore in recent years. Scholars in such diverse fields as business and management (Gibassier et al, 2019; Reade et al, 2015; Whiteman et al, 2013; Winn & Pogutz, 2013), conservation biology (Klein et al, 2008), ecology (Rose, 2000), ecological economics (Houdet et al, 2012), political science (Smith et al, 2019), development studies (Visseren‐Hamakers et al, 2012), and international affairs (Rubino, 2000) have articulated the critical role of business in protecting biodiversity. A number of studies (e.g., Boiral et al, 2018; Opdam & Steingrover, 2018) have provided descriptive analyses of biodiversity protection initiatives taken by individual companies; other studies have elucidated advances in biodiversity accounting and corporate biodiversity disclosures (e.g., Atkins & Maroun, 2018; Boiral, 2016; Gibassier & Arjaliès, 2019; Houdet et al, 2020; Schaltegger et al, 2013).…”

“…This growing academic interest in understanding and enhancing corporate engagement in protecting biodiversity is indeed encouraging, but it has not expanded beyond a very small subset of corporate sustainability scholars. As Gibassier et al (2019) note, “organizational researchers have been relatively silent on the role of business organizations in alleviating biodiversity loss” (p. 921). The question is, why has biodiversity loss not been given the prominence it deserves in corporate sustainability and management research?…”

The making of imperfect indicators for biodiversity: A case study of UK biodiversity performance measurement

“…As a result, issues around biodiversity are becoming increasingly prominent within the accounting literature, with a growing amount of accounting scholars recognising the significance of accounting practices for biodiversity (Jones, 2014). Still, Gaia and Jones (2017) and Gibassier et al (2019) pointed out that accounting for biodiversity is, up to this point in time, an understudied area with the accounting literature more generally focusing on sustainability accounting or reporting issues rather than biodiversity concerns.…”