The governance of social enterprises: Mission drift and accountability challenges in hybrid organizations

A Ebrahim, J Battilana, J Mair - Research in organizational behavior, 2014 - Elsevier
We examine the challenges of governance facing organizations that pursue a social mission
through the use of market mechanisms. These hybrid organizations, often referred to as …

Globalisation, accounting and developing countries

T Hopper, P Lassou, T Soobaroyen - Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 2017 - Elsevier
Accounting is an instrument and an object in globalisation but its impact and manifestation is
not uniform across Northern developed countries and Southern developing countries (DCs) …

Crisis as opportunity, disruption and exposure: Exploring emergent responses to crisis through digital technology

M Gkeredakis, H Lifshitz-Assaf, M Barrett - Information and Organization, 2021 - Elsevier
We live in a technologically advanced era with a recent and marked dependence on digital
technologies while also facing increasingly frequent extreme and global crises. Crises, like …

Organizational transparency: Conceptualizations, conditions, and consequences

OB Albu, M Flyverbom - Business & society, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Transparency is an increasingly prominent area of research that offers valuable insights for
organizational studies. However, conceptualizations of transparency are rarely subject to …

A resource-based view of social entrepreneurship: How stewardship culture benefits scale of social impact

S Bacq, KA Eddleston - Journal of Business Ethics, 2018 - Springer
Despite efforts to address societal ills, social enterprises face challenges in increasing their
impact. Drawing from the RBV, we argue that a social enterprise's scale of social impact …

In pursuit of a 'single source of truth': from threatened legitimacy to integrated reporting

C Beck, J Dumay, G Frost - Journal of Business Ethics, 2017 - Springer
This paper explores one organisation's journey into non-financial reporting, initially
motivated by a crisis in public confidence that threatened the organisation's legitimacy to the …

Corporations and NGOs: When accountability leads to co-optation

D Baur, HP Schmitz - Journal of Business Ethics, 2012 - Springer
Interactions between corporations and nonprofits are on the rise, frequently driven by a
corporate interest in establishing credentials for corporate social responsibility (CSR). In this …

Integrated reporting and narrative accountability: the role of preparers

A Lai, G Melloni, R Stacchezzini - Accounting, Auditing & …, 2018 - emerald.com
Purpose The International Integrated Reporting Council claims that integrated reporting (IR)
can enhance corporate accountability, yet critical and interpretative studies have contested …

Social impact measurement: why do stakeholders matter?

E Costa, C Pesci - Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy …, 2016 - emerald.com
Purpose–This paper aims to discuss the notion of social impact of social impact
measurement in social enterprises by supporting the multiple-constituency theory as a …

The co-construction of NGO accountability: Aligning imposed and felt accountability in NGO-funder accountability relationships

B O'Dwyer, R Boomsma - Accounting, Auditing & Accountability …, 2015 - emerald.com
Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to deepen and advance the understanding of the
construction of accountability within the relationship between government funders and …