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2023

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Political Science

D-Index
35
Citations
10840
World Ranking
721
National Ranking
116

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Laura J. Spence is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom and focuses scholarly work primarily within the field of Business, Management and Accounting. Their research spans several important subfields, including Strategy and Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Information Systems and Management, Business and International Management, and Sociology and Political Science.

The work of Laura J. Spence encompasses topics such as Management and Organizational Studies, Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting, Ethics in Business and Education, Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Global Trade, Sustainability, and Social Impact, Innovation and Socioeconomic Development, and Environmental Sustainability in Business.

The recent papers authored or coauthored by Laura J. Spence include:

  • The Elephant in the Room: The Nascent Research Agenda on Corporations, Social Responsibility, and Capitalism (2020, Business & Society)
  • Hybrid (un)freedom in worker hostels in garment supply chains (2022, Human Relations)
  • A typology of small- and medium-sized supplier approaches to social responsibility (2021, Business Ethics the Environment & Responsibility)
  • Environmental attitudes of polluting SMEs: Qualitative insights from a low-income developing country (2020, Business Strategy & Development)
  • Polluting SMEs and the construction of their environmental behaviours: Evidence from Bangladesh (2020, Business Strategy & Development)

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as Business & Society, Academy of Management Proceedings, Human Relations, Business Strategy & Development, and Business Ethics the Environment & Responsibility.

Collaborations feature several recurrent coauthors, including Vivek Soundararajan, Simon Oldham, Andrew Crane, Michael Bloomfield, and Genevieve LeBaron, reflecting a network of scholarly engagement across their research topics.

Best Publications

  • Contesting the value of "creating shared value"

    Andrew Crane;Guido Palazzo;Laura J. Spence;Dirk Matten

  • Organizing Corporate Social Responsibility in Small and Large Firms: Size Matters

    Dorothée Baumann-Pauly;Christopher Wickert;Laura J. Spence;Andreas Georg Scherer

  • Does size matter? The state of the art in small business ethics

    Laura J. Spence

  • Corporate Social Responsibility Readings and Cases in a Global Context

    Andrew Crane;Dirk Matten;Laura J. Spence

  • CSR and Small Business in a European Policy Context: The Five “C”s of CSR and Small Business Research Agenda 2007

    Laura J. Spence

  • Walking and talking corporate social responsibility: Implications of firm size and organizational cost

    Christopher Wickert;Andreas Georg Scherer;Laura J. Spence

  • Assessing social capital: Small and medium sized enterprises in germany and the U.k

    Laura J. Spence;René Schmidpeter;André Habisch

  • Social responsibility, profit maximisation and the small firm owner‐manager

    Laura J. Spence;Robert Rutherfoord

  • The evolution from corporate social responsibility to supply chain responsibility: the case of Waitrose

    Laura Spence;Michael A. Bourlakis

  • SMEs, Social Capital and the Common Good

    Laura J. Spence;René Schmidpeter

  • Toward a Theory of Stakeholder Salience in Family Firms

    Ronald K. Mitchell;Bradley R. Agle;James J. Chrisman;Laura J. Spence

  • Small Business and Empirical Perspectives in Business Ethics: Editorial

    Laura J. Spence;Robert Rutherfoord

  • Social Entrepreneurship and Business Ethics: Does Social Equal Ethical?

    Elizabeth Chell;Laura J. Spence;Francesco Perrini;Jared D. Harris

  • Governmentality in accounting and accountability: A case study of embedding sustainability in a supply chain

    Laura J. Spence;Leonardo Rinaldi

  • Small business social responsibility

    Laura J. Spence

  • Environmental management and the small firm: an international comparison

    Robert Rutherfoord;Robert A. Blackburn;Laura J. Spence

  • Editorial: Responsibility and Small Business

    Geoff Moore;Laura Spence

  • Small Business and the Environment in the UK and the Netherlands: Toward Stakeholder Cooperation

    Laura J. Spence;Ronald Jeurissen;Robert Rutherfoord

  • Communicating about Ethics with Small Firms: Experiences from the U.K. and Spain

    Laura J. Spence;José Félix Lozano

  • Small Business Social Responsibility: A Critical Multi-Level Review, Synthesis and Research Agenda

    Vivek Soundararajan;Dima Jamali;Laura J. Spence

  • The Forgotten Stakeholder? Ethics and Social Responsibility in Relation to Competitors

    Laura J. Spence;Anne‐Marie Coles;Lisa Harris

Frequent Co-Authors

Dirk Matten
Dirk Matten York University
Andreas Georg Scherer
Andreas Georg Scherer University of Zurich
Guido Palazzo
Guido Palazzo University of Lausanne
Ruth Simpson
Ruth Simpson Brunel University London
David L. Levy
David L. Levy University of Massachusetts Boston
Thomas Donaldson
Thomas Donaldson University of Pennsylvania

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