Purpose ? The British retailer Marks & Spencer aspires to be the world's mostsustainable major global retailer by 2015. This paper seeks to examine how thecompany is embedding sustainability. Design/methodology/approach ? The paper iswritten as part of an ongoing investigation into how...

Purpose – This paper aims to deal with the significance of leadership as driver of corporate responsibility and complementary, dynamic organizational change. It seeks to focus on the continuous attention required by competitiveness, and the cultural complexity of renewing business processes in...

Purpose – This paper aims to describe the emerging practice of joint management‐stakeholder‐committees (JMSCs) in which corporate executives take decisions in collaboration with stakeholders. Design/methodology/approach – To identify firms involving stakeholders in their governance...

The concept of the self‐regulating work group is ot new. Whilst much has been written about it there are no reliable statistical data about its incidence, perhaps because of the difficulty of adequately describing this form of work organisation. Its use, however, would not appear to be...

Purpose – The British retailer Marks & Spencer aspires to be the world's most sustainable major global retailer by 2015. This paper seeks to examine how the company is embedding sustainability. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is written as part of an ongoing investigation into how...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to capture, codify and communicate an implicit change‐management process to embed corporate responsibility and sustainability at the Cranfield School of Management. Design/methodology/approach – To explain the (on‐going) change‐management process,...