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Dahlmann, Frederik and Stubbs, Wendy (2023) Purpose framing as an informal governance approach to sustainability transformations in the private sector. Earth System Governance, 15 . 100165. doi:10.1016/j.esg.2023.100165 ISSN 2589-8116.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esg.2023.100165
Abstract
Today's sustainability challenges require significant transformative shifts in the private sector, particularly driven by new, potentially also more informal, forms of governance. A variety of sustainability-oriented intermediary organisations encourage and support businesses to become purpose-driven to address social and environmental sustainability issues beyond maximising profit. We conduct interviews with these intermediaries to theorise how and why the broad concept of purpose might be used as an informal means to steer and transform business-society relations. We find that by invoking notions of systemic goal alignment and individual goal alignment, the simultaneous use of two contrasting but complementary frames allows intermediaries to appeal to and potentially engage a variety of audiences in their efforts to changing businesses and the economic system. Our research contributes to literatures on how the framing of purpose in business is used as an informal governance approach for driving a sustainability transformation.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | |||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Strategy & International Business Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Corporate governance, Sustainability | |||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Earth System Governance | |||||||||
| Publisher: | Elsevier | |||||||||
| ISSN: | 2589-8116 | |||||||||
| Official Date: | January 2023 | |||||||||
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| Volume: | 15 | |||||||||
| Article Number: | 100165 | |||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.esg.2023.100165 | |||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | |||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | |||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | |||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 23 January 2023 | |||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 24 January 2023 | |||||||||
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