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BUSINESS & SOCIETY                                                                  

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A Sage Publications journal sponsored by IABS

Business & Society, which completed anniversary Volume 50 in 2011, publishes quarterly (March, June, September, December). 

Impact Factor: 1.220
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Source: 2010 Journal Citation Reports® (Thomson Reuters, 2011)

The below Table of Contents is available online at:

http://bas.sagepub.com/content/vol51/issue2/?etoc

The June 2012 issue (Vol. 51, No. 2) contains a special tribute to Tom Jones, who was former editor of this journal.  Please see the abstract below.

Editorials

Editorial Announcement

Duane Windsor

Business Society 2012; 51 215-216
http://bas.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/51/2/215

From the Editor

Duane Windsor

Business Society 2012; 51 217-219
http://bas.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/51/2/217

Articles

Equity and Expectancy Considerations in Stakeholder Action

Sefa Hayibor

Business Society 2012; 51 220-262
http://bas.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/51/2/220

An "interest-based" view of stakeholder action-a view that stakeholders act against organizations to safeguard or promote their own interests-underlies much research in stakeholder theory. In this article, the author uses two motivation theories-equity theory and expectancy theory-to address the general research question, "What are the conditions under which stakeholders will take action against an organization?" Doing so allows for a more explicit elaboration of an interest-based approach to understanding stakeholder action. Applying these theories, the author develops propositions concerning the conditions that are likely to precipitate stakeholder sanctions directed at a focal organization and develops a basic framework for understanding when such stakeholder action is likely. Finally, the author discusses the theoretical and practical implications of this work.

HIV/AIDS as Business Risk: A South African Case Study

Jay van Wyk

Business Society 2012; 51 263-309
http://bas.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/51/2/263

This article utilizes a political system framework to trace the political sources of business risk stemming from the unfolding HIV/AIDS generalized epidemic in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">South Africa</st1:place></st1:country-region>. The article integrates relevant dimensions of the fields of international business and political science to facilitate the assessment of such risks for firms. Risk formation and updating is a sequential process. The conditions from which business risk emerges, the politicization of the generalized (i.e., widespread) epidemic through boundary-crossing activities, and "inputs" are explored. The transformation of HIV/AIDS from an epidemic to a business threat is underscored by the South African government's tendency to view the issue as part of the public agenda rather than part of its formal agenda. Governmental inaction, as well as action, led to an array of risks for firms operating in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">South Africa</st1:place></st1:country-region> (e.g., operations, asset impairment, competitive, franchise). Mitigating strategies for managers are discussed, including avoidance, offsetting, transference, sharing, remedy, and anticipation.

Tribute to Tom Jones (former editor of BAS)

"He's a Real Dude": Tributes to Tom Jones

Paul C. Godfrey and Bradley R. Agle

Business Society 2012; 51 310-334
http://bas.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/51/2/310

Researchers often fail to honor luminaries in their fields of inquiry, at least while they are still alive. What follows is one such tribute, to Dr. Thomas M. Jones, the Boeing Company endowed professor in business management at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Washington</st1:placename></st1:place>'s Foster School of Business. Business & Society represents an appropriate outlet for this tribute, given that Tom was the first editor of the journal when the International Association for Business and Society (IABS) assumed editorial control of the Sage Publications journal in 1993.

Dissertation Abstract

Strategic Alliances for Environmental Improvements

Haiying Lin

Business Society 2012; 51 335-348
http://bas.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/51/2/335

This article articulates a conceptual framework characterizing strategic alliances for environmental improvements. Drawing on the integrative perspective of the resource-based view of the firm and institutional theory, this study examines firms' varied motivation to form strategic alliances for environmental issues and suggests that these alliances are typically either competency- or legitimacy-oriented. The author characterizes the structural configurations of these alliance types from alliance learning, partner diversity, and governance structure dimensions. These variances in structural configurations explain why competency-oriented alliances, characterized by exploration learning, diverse partners, and nonequity structure, may facilitate firms to pursue more proactive environmental strategies. This conceptual framework is supported empirically by a sample of 74 firms that participated in 146 environmental alliances in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region> from 1991 to 2007.

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Duane Windsor, PhD

BAS Editor

Lynette S. Autrey Professor of Management

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