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“While each of our individual companies serves its own corporate purpose, we share a fundamental commitment to all of our stakeholders” (Business Roundtable, 2019). With this statement, 181 managers of the Business Roundtable renewed their fundamental view about the purpose of business. This symbolic statement generated a vivid discussion and proved the importance and actuality of addressing organisational purpose as a research topic.
From an academic perspective the discussion about organizational purpose is not new but diverse (Bartlett & Ghoshal, 1994; Basu, 1999; Canals, 2010; George, 1999; Henderson & Steen, 2015; Hollensbe, Wookey, Hickey, George, & Nichols, 2014; Koslowski, 2001; Loza Adaui & Mion, 2016; Porter & Kramer, 2011; Quinn & Thakor, 2018; Sisodia, Wolfe, & Sheth, 2006). There are many overlapping points between the discussion on the organisational purpose and the study of corporate sustainability. Because from a sustainability management perspective, companies are administrated and valued, taking into consideration not only their economic performance but also the ecological and social impact that they generate (Elkington, 1994).
This cumulative dissertation addresses in a broad perspective the overlapping points of the discussion on organizational purpose and sustainability and entails four modules:
Module I: Matthias S. Fifka, Anna-Lena Kühn, Cristian R. Loza Adaui & Markus Stiglbauer (2016) Promoting Development in Weak Institutional Environments: The Understanding and Transmission of Sustainability by NGOs in Latin America. VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 27(3), 1091-1122.
Module II: Giorgio Mion & Cristian R. Loza Adaui (2020) Understanding the Purpose of Benefit Corporations: An Empirical Study on the Italian Case. International Journal of Corporate Social Responsibility, 5(4), 1-15.
Module III: Giorgio Mion & Cristian R. Loza Adaui (2019) Mandatory Nonfinancial Disclosure and Its Consequences on the Sustainability Reporting Quality of Italian and German Companies. Sustainability, 11(17), 4612.
Module IV: Cristian R. Loza Adaui (2020) Sustainability Reporting Quality of Peruvian Listed Companies and the Impact of Regulatory Requirements of Sustainability Disclosures. Sustainability, 2020, 12(3), 1135.