Special Issue Guest Editors: Marc Orlitzky, Penn State University Altoona Donald Siegel, University at Albany, State University of New York David Waldman, Arizona State University

Multinational firms are under pressure from multiple stakeholders to be socially and environmentally responsible.According to the Stern report issued by the U.K. government, The Economist, and the philosopher Joseph DesJ ardins, ecological sustainability could become the central social responsibility challenge for business. Thus, managers must be able to determine how their organizations can become more ecologically sustainable, socially responsible, and economically competitive.

This trend also raises profound research questions, crossing numerous fields in business administration and several social science disciplines. From a theoretical standpoint, it is interesting to note that researchers have attempted to model the antecedents and consequences of “responsible” behavior at the individual, organizational, industry, national, and societal levels. However, the theoretical literatures on this phenomenon are parallel and independent, which hinders our ability to understand the managerial and policy implications of corporate social responsibility and sustainability.­

Two key research questions are:

1. How can social and environmental responsibility be implemented more effectively through integrated market and non-market strategies? and
   
2. How can the various business sub-disciplines (e.g., human resource management, management information systems, organizational behavior, marketing, and accounting) contribute to our understanding of the determinants of superior financial, social, and environmental performance?

­Submission Instructions­
Submisssions to the Special Issue should be sent electronically to Professor Marc Orlitzky at moo3@psu.edu, Professor Donald Siegel at DSiegel@uamail.albany.edu, and Professor David Waldman at waldman@asu.edu) before June 1st, 2009. The format of the papers must follow Business and Society guidelines.

Please download the full call for further information regarding the objectives of the special issue, additional research questions and the timeline: http://www.sustainabilityresearch.org/Docs/Call_BS_Sep08