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Business & Society, which just completed Anniversary Volume 50, publishes quarterly

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The below Table of Contents for December 2011 (Vol. 50, No. 4) is available online at: http://bas.sagepub.com/content/vol50/issue4/?etoc

Editorials

Editorial Announcement

Duane Windsor

Business Society 2011;50 575-576
http://bas.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/50/4/575

From the Editor

Duane Windsor

Business Society 2011;50 577-579
http://bas.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/50/4/577

Editor's Special Forum for Last Issue of the Anniversary 50th Volume

Productivity and Prestige in Business Ethics Research: A Report and Commentary on the State of the Field

<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Chad</st1:country-region></st1:place> Albrecht, Jeffery A. Thompson, and Jeffrey L. Hoopes

Business Society 2011;50 580-606
http://bas.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/50/4/580

This article provides a report and commentary on productivity and prestige in business ethics research. Based on a survey that was administered to 320 business ethics scholars worldwide, the authors report a ranking of 15 business schools that are perceived to be leaders in the field of business ethics. Based on these same survey results, the authors investigate which factors may have the strongest relationship to individual publication productivity and perceptions of institutional prestige within business ethics research. The results provide several surprising findings that suggest the business ethics field may be anomalous in academe in terms of the emergence of productivity and prestige.

Rediscovering Howard R. Bowen's Legacy: The Unachieved Agenda and Continuing Relevance of Social Responsibilities of the Businessman

Aurélien Acquier, Jean-Pascal Gond, and Jean Pasquero

Business Society 2011;50 607-646
http://bas.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/50/4/607

Many business and society scholars hail Howard R. Bowen as the founding father of the academic conception and study of corporate social responsibility (CSR). Yet little is known widely about his life and the true agenda of Social Responsibilities of the Businessman (Bowen), his landmark book. This article explores the historical and current significance of Bowen's seminal work. The authors contend that the analytical perspective Bowen proposed nearly 60 years ago, although regrettably underappreciated in past decades, is more relevant than ever to stimulating future research on CSR and to revitalizing business and society scholarship.

Editor's Special Forum on Reform in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">South Africa</st1:country-region></st1:place>

Understanding Corporate Governance Reform in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">South Africa</st1:country-region></st1:place>: Anglo-American Divergence, the King Reports, and Hybridization

Stefan Andreasson

Business Society 2011;50 647-673
http://bas.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/50/4/647

This article investigates corporate governance reform in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">South Africa</st1:country-region></st1:place> in the context of the country's international links with Anglo-American corporate governance and domestic pursuit of socioeconomic development. Two key questions are evaluated. (a) How has divergence within the Anglo-American model influenced corporate governance reform in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">South Africa</st1:country-region></st1:place>? (b) Can <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">South Africa</st1:country-region></st1:place>'s historical closeness to the Anglo-American model be combined with increasing attention to stakeholder issues to produce a hybrid "African model" of corporate governance? Evaluating these questions, the following issues are explored in turn: the contrast between shareholder and stakeholder models, divergence between U.S. and U.K. approaches to corporate governance as exemplified by Sarbanes-Oxley, locating a South African approach in context of the Anglo-American model, the King reports and an emerging "African" model of corporate governance, and the role of international and domestic factors in shaping South Africa's ongoing reform process.

Corporate Social Responsibility and Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Legislation in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">South Africa</st1:country-region></st1:place>: Codes of Good Practice

Bindu Arya and Balbir Bassi

Business Society 2011;50 674-695
http://bas.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/50/4/674

The South African government has been active in promulgating specific corporate social responsibility (CSR) regulations since 1994 directed at the economic empowerment of historically disadvantaged Black people. Government laws have sought to involve corporations in promoting social cohesion and in addressing problems of historical exclusion of Black communities from the mainstream economy. This objective of transformation within the economy culminated in the release of the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Act in 2003. The Department of Trade and Industry finalized the Codes of Good Practice on February 9, 2007, to clarify and ensure consistency in the implementation of socially responsible behavior in one area, empowerment of historically disadvantaged Black people (other areas of CSR do not display this consistently) within organizations across industry sectors. In this article, the authors discuss the key principles of this legislation, approaches to monitoring and measuring Codes of Good Practice implementation, and their implications for social-change initiatives in local and multinational enterprises that operate in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">South Africa</st1:country-region></st1:place>.

Review Essay

A Review Essay of Ethics in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises: A Global Commentary, edited by Laura J. Spence and Mollie Painter-Morland (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Dordrecht</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Netherlands</st1:country-region></st1:place>: Springer, 2010)

Susan Mayson

Business Society 2011;50 696-702
http://bas.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/50/4/696

This review essay assesses the contents and contributions of an edited volume on ethics in small and medium-sized enterprises. The volume takes a global perspective on such firms. Dr. Laura J. Spence is director of the Centre for Research Into Sustainability at Royal Holloway, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">London</st1:placename></st1:place>. Dr. Mollie Painter-Morland is associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">DePaul</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place> in Chicago and associate director of DePaul's Institute for Business and Professional Ethics. Dr. Painter-Morland is editor-in-chief of the Business and Professional Ethics Journal.

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Duane Windsor, PhD

BAS Editor

Lynette S. Autrey Professor of Management

<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Jesse</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">H.</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Jones</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Graduate</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">School</st1:placetype></st1:place> of Business

<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Rice</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>

odw@rice.edu