Promoting value emergence through digital platform ecosystems: Perspectives on resource integration in China

Evolution and assessment of corporate social performance through the lens of top category journals: a theoretical structural analysis

“…First, the study identified gaps related to five main research domains: stakeholder management, organizational change management, resource management, CSP signals and other methodological gaps in the literature. Regarding this, we found few research gaps such as a lack of studies on private investors, secondary stakeholders, the supplier–buyer sustainability link, the role of slack variables, firm heterogeneity, peer learning and social performance comparison (McGuinness et al ., 2020; Aftab et al ., 2022; Peng et al ., 2023). Also, very limited discussion was found on hybrid organizations, non-profit firms, sector-specific analysis, Industry 4.0, value co-creation, emergence and the circular economy (Maine et al ., 2022; Khan et al ., 2023; Simo et al ., 2023).…”

“…We found stakeholder theory is one of the most popular theories utilized by researchers to evaluate the perspectives of diverse stakeholders on the social actions and performance of businesses (Shankar et al, 2018;Dang et al, 2021;Tandelilin and Usman, 2023). Similarly, institutional theory, the resource dependence model and agency theory have been used to assess the connection between firms' resources, innovative practices and CSP (Burke et al, 2019;Tang et al, 2019;Rouault and Albertini, 2022;Peng et al, 2023). Furthermore, a small number of notable studies have demonstrated the importance of behavioural and social theories such as social identity, social norms theories and signalling theory in assessing the impact of the external environment, critical mass and CEO compensation structures on firms' CSP (Fu et al, 2022a;Fu, 2023;Khan et al, 2023).…”

“…Such associations have been discussed in a few previous studies. For example, studies discussed resource management using resource mobilization theory, slack theory and institutional theory (Aftab et al ., 2022; Peng et al ., 2023), identified stakeholders’ behavioural outcomes about a firm’s social initiatives using signalling theory, stakeholder theory, attribution theory, agency theory (Hsu, 2018; Aluchna et al ., 2022; Khan et al ., 2023) and many more. In recent years, researchers have identified some underexplored social performance indicators such as the supplier–buyer sustainability link, sustainable-oriented innovation, and practicing circular economy for the interest of stakeholders using stakeholder theory, organizational learning theory, Schumpeter’s innovation theories and the supplier–buyer sustainability link (Lahane et al ., 2020; Lahouel et al ., 2021; Rodríguez-Espíndola et al ., 2022).…”

“…Literature has observed a shift only from the CSR–CSP–financial performance link (Campopiano et al ., 2023) to the association between CSP and environmental components (Torrent-Sellens et al ., 2023), business sustainability links (Aftab et al ., 2022), peers’ common goals or cross-ownerships (Xiang et al ., 2022; Fu, 2023) and behavioural outcomes to heterogeneous stakeholders groups and private investors social accountability requirements (Chourou et al ., 2022; Rouault and Albertini, 2022). Various other green or product innovations and practices (Nord et al ., 2022; Fu, 2023), supply chain sustainability links (Acquah et al ., 2020), and the role of hybrid organizations (Maine et al ., 2022), business innovations with the help of technology (Rodríguez-Espíndola et al ., 2022), and use of several dynamic capabilities’ models have been identified in the last few years (Peng et al ., 2023; Hyun et al ., 2023). In recent years, a major focus of these studies has been measuring resource effectiveness and utilization, value co-creation, and emergence to achieve social sustainability and business performance.…”

Reducing carbon emission in the goat farms by switching from conventional goat farming to green goat farm typology

“…To date, several studies have focused on the effect of government regulations and subsidies. Some studies explored the positive effect of government regulations and subsidies to switch green production technology and systems (Chan et al, 2015;Joo et al, 2018;Peng et al, 2023). However, some previous studies reported the negative effects of government regulations and subsidies (Krass et al, 2013;Hafezi and Zolfagharinia, 2018;Ghosh et al, 2020).…”