The sustainability problems of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services increasingly challenges the legitimacy of corporations. Corporate legitimacy, however, is vital to the survival of corporations in competitive environments. The literature distinguishes three...

Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's theory of social practice this paper develops a novel approach to the study of CSR. According to this approach, pro-social activities are conceptualized as social practices that are employed by individual managers in their personal struggles for social power. Whether...

In the wake of progressive globalization and accelerating speed of change, corporations are increasingly faced with so-called meta-problems, whose complexity tends to outstrip the sensemaking capacities of individual organizations. As a response to that, organizations are increasingly engaging...

Trotz ihrer weiten Verbreitung im Unternehmensalltag, den hohen Kosten und dem beträchtlichen Zeitaufwand, der mit ihnen verbunden ist, sind Strategieworkshops von den Managementwissenschaften als Forschungsgegenstand bisher weitgehend vernachlässigt worden. Mit der hier vorgestellten Studie...

In this paper we compare the emerging field of open strategy to the established field of open innovation in order to facilitate their cross-fertilisation both in research and practice. Taking a communication-centred perspective, we argue that in both fields ‘openness' concerns opening-up the...