The B Corp Movement: A Systematic Literature Review

Diez-Busto, Elsa; Sánchez-Ruiz, Lidia; Fernández‐Laviada, Ana

doi:10.3390/su13052508

Cited by 63 publications

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References 71 publications

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“…Companies are key actors in promoting SD (Diez-Busto et al, 2021). There is considerable research into understanding how business works and stakeholders' value is created.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…They conclude that more recent research emphasizes B Corp studies through various lenses, such as CSR and sustainable business models. In another SLR on the B Corp movement, encompassing 50 scientific articles published until 2020, Diez‐Busto et al (2021) identified some of companies' motivations to be B Corp certified and the economic and social effects of certification to be the primary research topics. The results indicate some inconsistencies between different studies, suggesting the need to harmonize research criteria.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

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B Corp versus ISO 9001 and 14001 certifications: Aligned, or alternative paths, towards sustainable development?

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Corporate social responsibility (CSR) emerged to deliver sustainable economic, environmental, and social value to organization's extended stakeholders and society in general. This study investigates the similarities, differences, and relationships between B Corp, ISO 9001, and ISO 14001 certifications and is supported by a mixed research methodology and a sample of 701 B Corp companies certified between January 2020 and March 2021. The results indicate that ISO 14001 and ISO 9001 certified B Corp companies have statistically higher scores for the Environment dimension but are inconclusive, or even contradictory, for the other BIA (B Impact Assessment) dimensions. Differences in size, activity sector and geographical location are discussed. It is shown that both B Corp, ISO 9001 and 14001 certified companies, guided by different missions and business models, contribute, at different levels, towards CSR and sustainable development goals.

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“…Companies are key actors in promoting SD (Diez-Busto et al, 2021). There is considerable research into understanding how business works and stakeholders' value is created.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

B Corp versus ISO 9001 and 14001 certifications: Aligned, or alternative paths, towards sustainable development?

Fonseca

Silva

Sá

et al. 2021

Corp Soc Responsibility Env

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“…Unlike a traditional narrative literature review, our approach produces results that are scientific and transparent, which helps to limit research bias due to the subjectivity of the researcher conducting the review process. Our work overcomes the limitations of existing literature review on B Corps (i.e., Diez-Busto et al, 2021), which, at present, offers only a partial analysis of the body of the literature in this field.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 91%

Mapping the emergence of a new organisational form: An exploration of the intellectual structure of the B Corp research

Blasi

Sedita

2021

Corp Soc Responsibility Env

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This paper explores the emergence of B Corp as a new research field through a bibliometric analysis of the B Corp literature, based on a database of 142 documents collected by Scopus and published between 2009 and 2020. This emergent field is an important component of the structural change occurring in our society, which, in recent years, has seen the emergence of new for-profit organisational forms with a strong social consciousness. The bibliometric analysis reveals the foundational works and the historical evolution of the research field, pinpointing the connections between similar concepts in the literature on sustainable enterprises, such as B Corp, hybrid organisation, benefit corporation, and corporate social responsibility. Through a social network analysis, we sustain a relational view of B Corp research, and propose a taxonomy of concepts and terminology, which shows that the concept of B Corp defines an emergent organisational form.

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“…In particular, CBCs, especially smaller and/or younger ones, may have difficulties in this endeavor as a consequence of the lack of economic resources, business knowledge and/or external environment support [24].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Additionally, fiscal help could be highly beneficial for CBCs given that many of them achieve their impacts directly through the selling of their products [24], which many times leads them to reduce their margins in order to make their offer more accessible [5].…”

Section: Government Policies: Taxes and Bureaucracymentioning

confidence: 99%

Entrepreneurial Framework Conditions and Impact Scores of Small-Size Certified Benefit Corporations (CBCs). A Configurational Analysis of 17 Countries

Ruozzi

Vicente

2021

Sustainability

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The urgent need that the private sector generate positive social and environmental impacts in order to cope with the grand challenges faced by humanity and contribute to sustainable development, has ignited the need to understand the country conditions that could promote such an endeavor, especially for small firms who may have more difficulties and, among them, those that try to generate positive impacts for multiple stakeholders, such as Certified B Corporations (CBCs). To contribute to such understanding, we use fsQCA to identify the combinations of presence/absence of four entrepreneurial framework conditions (EFCs)—financing for entrepreneurs, taxes and bureaucracy, R&D transfer, and commercial and legal infrastructure—that are sufficient for the presence/absence of a high average impact score of small-size CBCs in the country. The analysis reveals that two combinations of the presence/absence of the considered EFCs are sufficient for the presence and another two are sufficient for the absence of that outcome. General patterns, specific combinations and the implications for policymakers, CBCs managers and future research are discussed.

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The B Corp Movement: A Systematic Literature Review

Cited by 63 publications

References 71 publications

B Corp versus ISO 9001 and 14001 certifications: Aligned, or alternative paths, towards sustainable development?

B Corp versus ISO 9001 and 14001 certifications: Aligned, or alternative paths, towards sustainable development?

Mapping the emergence of a new organisational form: An exploration of the intellectual structure of the B Corp research

Entrepreneurial Framework Conditions and Impact Scores of Small-Size Certified Benefit Corporations (CBCs). A Configurational Analysis of 17 Countries

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