Aims and Scope
The mission of the Annals of Sustainable Management & Business Ethics is to foster research and critical reflection on the role of organizations in the transition toward a responsible and sustainable economic model. Topics covered include:
- Sustainable management: strategies for integrating sustainability into managerial practices, organizational innovation, and responsible management models.
- Business ethics: ethical principles, codes of conduct, anti-corruption, leadership responsibility, and organizational transparency.
- Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): societal initiatives, participatory governance, shared value creation, and stakeholder relations.
- Sustainability and strategy: integration of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) criteria into corporate strategy and management.
- Responsible finance and sustainable investment: green bonds, impact investing, ethical finance, and the role of financial markets in sustainability.
- Innovation and circular economy: circular business models, carbon footprint reduction, and resource optimization.
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion: organizational inclusion policies, workplace equality, diversity management, and their impact on performance.
- International standards and regulations: the role of international institutions, conventions, and standards in sustainable governance.
- International comparisons: analyses of sustainability and ethics practices in different cultural, institutional, and economic contexts.
- Interdisciplinary perspectives: contributions from moral philosophy, law, and social sciences to business ethics and sustainable management.
This wide thematic coverage makes the journal a privileged platform for publishing theoretical, empirical, qualitative, quantitative, and interdisciplinary research.