Scholarly Articles

Understanding and developing resilience is becoming increasingly important in business for both leaders and organizations.

The following invited essay by Dr. Michael Garanzini, S.J., is based on a talk Fr.

In the spirit of this journal’s invitation to address the questions What’s so?, So what?, and Now what?, this editorial will comment brie"y on possible responses to these three questions—response

In this article, we review the challenges to the current economic system and then proceed by presenting two competing paradigms—the economistic and humanistic paradigms of business.

Entrepreneurship is increasingly being recognized as a significant conduit for bringing about a transformation towards sustainable products and processes.

Sustainable marketing is one of the main challenges facing firms over the next few years because of its potential impact on both the growth of firms and the image of business people, hence the ne

In a world that is in need of more individuals acting with the social and environmental impact of their decisions in mind, what would it take to develop sustainability-minded leaders?

This article discusses ways in which ICTs contribute to several aspects of global sustainability.

The GSBI originated from the observation that technology innovations bene!ting humanity, such as those honored by The Tech Awards program, rarely achieved meaningful scale.

Social ventures balance the economic and social dimensions of value creation to alleviate the problems created by shared collective issues.

The phenomenal growth of social entrepreneurship over the last decade has ably demonstrated how technology, innovation, and an entrepreneurial spirit can afford better solutions to the vexing soc

The call for global sustainability is echoed by societal, environmental, and economic needs across the globe.

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) can help social enterprises and other organizations working on global sustainability issues and in the human development sector in general scale t

Grameen Shakti has mastered the art of rural business. Sixteen years ago, the Bangladesh-based renewable energy company was a pioneer in an unexplored market.

In 2008, the authors of this article developed a “sector strategy” for the Global Social Benefit Incubator (GSBI) at Santa Clara University with the purpose of facilitating collaborative learning

Social enterprises are providing affordable energy and environmentally sustainable energy to a small but growing percentage of the four billion people living on less than $2,000/year.

This essay examines possible routes to achieving significant health improvements in the underserved populations of developing countries.

In this article, we discuss the importance of human assets in growing and scaling a social venture in order to achieve its objectives and attain financial sustainability.

This article addresses the specific role of programs that attempt to help social ventures scale.

Making a difference in the pursuit of a more sustainable world increasingly requires the ability to contend successfully with the wicked problem that is sustainability, and this shift needs to ha