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  1. Feminist Value Creation: The Pursuit of Gender Equality

    Article • Academy of Management Review, November 2025, The Academy of Management

    Professor Laura J. Spence

  2. Navigating Firm–Stakeholder Conflicts of Values: A Deweyan Ethical Perspective

    Article • Business & Society, May 2025, SAGE Publications

    Professor Laura J. Spence

  3. Contesting social responsibilities of business: Centring context, experience, and relationality

    Article • Human Relations, April 2024, SAGE Publications

    Professor Laura J. Spence

  4. Organizational Engagement With Poverty: A Review and Reorientation

    Article • Journal of Management, March 2024, SAGE Publications

    Professor Laura J. Spence

  5. Feminist Corporate Social Responsibility: Reframing CSR as a Critical Force for Good

    Article • British Journal of Management, February 2024, Wiley

    Professor Laura J. Spence

  6. Small firm value orientation plurality

    Article • March 2023, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Laura J. Spence

  7. Radical, Relevant, Reflective and Brilliant: Towards the Future of Business Ethics

    Article • Journal of Business Ethics, October 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Laura J. Spence

  8. Hybrid (un)freedom in worker hostels in garment supply chains

    Article • Human Relations, March 2022, SAGE Publications

    Professor Laura J. Spence

  9. A typology of small‐ and medium‐sized supplier approaches to social responsibility

    Article • Business Ethics the Environment & Responsibility, September 2021, Wiley

    Professor Laura J. Spence

  10. In Praise of Involvement

    Article • Business & Society, May 2021, SAGE Publications

    Professor Laura J. Spence

  11. Polluting SMEs and the construction of their environmental behaviours: Evidence from Bangladesh

    Article • Business Strategy & Development, August 2020, Wiley

    Professor Laura J. Spence

  12. Environmental attitudes of polluting SMEs: Qualitative insights from a low‐income developing country

    Article • Business Strategy & Development, July 2020, Wiley

    Professor Laura J. Spence

  13. The Elephant in the Room: The Nascent Research Agenda on Corporations, Social Responsibility, and Capitalism

    Article • Business & Society, January 2020, SAGE Publications

    Frank G.A. de Bakker, Professor Laura J. Spence

  14. An Olympic‐sized Challenge: Effect of Organizational Pathology on Maintaining and Repairing Organizational Legitimacy in Sports Governing Bodies

    Article • British Journal of Management, February 2019, Wiley

    Professor Laura J. Spence

  15. How is CSR communication different for SMEs?

    Article • Human Relations, January 2019, SAGE Publications

    Professor Laura J. Spence

  16. Research Handbook on Small Business Social Responsibility

    Article • January 2018, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Laura J. Spence

  17. Small Business Social Responsibility: A Critical Multilevel Review, Synthesis and Research Agenda

    Article • International Journal of Management Reviews, December 2017, Wiley

    Professor Laura J. Spence

  18. Stakeholder Salience for Small Businesses: A Social Proximity Perspective

    Article • Journal of Business Ethics, October 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Laura J. Spence

  19. A Longitudinal Perspective on Sustainability and Innovation Governmentality: The Case of the Olympic Games as a Mega-Event

    Article • Journal of Management Inquiry, June 2017, SAGE Publications

    Professor Laura J. Spence

  20. Work ethic, religion and moral energy: the case of Turkish SME owner-managers

    Article • The International Journal of Human Resource Management, April 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Laura J. Spence

  21. Walking and Talking Corporate Social Responsibility: Implications of Firm Size and Organizational Cost

    Article • Journal of Management Studies, April 2016, Wiley

    Professor Laura J. Spence

  22. Small business social irresponsibility in developing countries

    Article • Business & Society, April 2016, SAGE Publications

    Dr Vivek Soundararajan, Professor Laura J. Spence

  23. Social Entrepreneurship and Business Ethics: Does Social Equal Ethical?

    Article • Journal of Business Ethics, November 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Laura J. Spence

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

    Article • Accounting Organizations and Society, August 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Laura J. Spence

  25. Introduction: Business ethics in small and medium enterprises

    Article • African Journal of Business Ethics, July 2014, Stellenbosch University

    Professor Laura J. Spence

  26. Practice and politics: Ethics and social responsibility in SMEs in the European Union

    Article • African Journal of Business Ethics, July 2014, Stellenbosch University

    Professor Laura J. Spence

  27. Social responsibility in small businesses

    Article • Business & Society, April 2014, SAGE Publications

    Professor Laura J. Spence

  28. Contesting the Value of “Creating Shared Value”

    Article • California Management Review, February 2014, SAGE Publications

    Professor Laura J. Spence

  29. Social capital: a review from an ethics perspective

    Article • Business Ethics A European Review, December 2013, Wiley

    Professor Laura J. Spence, Professor Paul Manning

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

    Article • Journal of Business Ethics, July 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Laura J. Spence

  31. Toward a Theory of Stakeholder Salience in Family Firms

    Article • Business Ethics Quarterly, April 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Laura J. Spence

  32. Ethics in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Laura J. Spence

  33. Accounting for Sustainability

    Article • September 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Laura J. Spence

  34. Entrepreneurial Social Responsibility: Scoping the Territory

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Richard K Blundel, Professor Laura J. Spence

  35. Introduction: Global Perspectives on Ethics in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Laura J. Spence

  36. Europe: Practice and Politics: Ethics and Social Responsibility in SMEs in the European Union

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Laura J. Spence

  37. Practice as a Members’ Phenomenon

    Article • Organization Studies, December 2009, SAGE Publications

    Professor Laura J. Spence

  38. The Nature of Reciprocity in Family Firm Succession

    Article • International Small Business Journal Researching Entrepreneurship, December 2009, SAGE Publications

    Professor Laura J. Spence

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

    Article • Supply Chain Management An International Journal, June 2009, Emerald

    Professor Laura J. Spence

  40. Unilateral Standards for Social Responsibility: Corporations as Social Watchdogs?

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Laura J. Spence

  41. The Same But Different: Standardizing Interview Procedures in the Multinational

    Article • Performance Improvement Quarterly, October 2008, Wiley

    Professor Laura J. Spence

  42. Business Ethics Quarterly: Stakeholder Theory, Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility & Family Enterprise

    Article • Business Ethics Quarterly, October 2008, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Laura J. Spence

  43. CSR and Small Business in a European Policy Context: The Five "C"s of CSR and Small Business Research Agenda 2007

    Article • Business and Society Review, December 2007, Wiley

    Professor Laura J. Spence

  44. Editorial: Responsibility and Small Business

    Article • Journal of Business Ethics, August 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Laura J. Spence

  45. European Business Ethics: Still Playing Defence? Business Ethics: A European Perspective. Managing Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability in the Age of Globalization Andrew Crane and Dirk Matten Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004; ISB...

    Article • Business Ethics Quarterly, October 2005, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Laura J. Spence

  46. Responsibility and Social Capital

    Article • January 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Laura J. Spence

  47. Introduction

    Article • January 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Laura J. Spence

  48. Literature Review: Social Capital and SMEs

    Article • January 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Laura J. Spence

  49. Social Responsibility, Profit-Maximisation and the Small Firm Owner-Manager

    Article • January 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Laura J. Spence

  50. SMEs, Social Capital and Civic Engagement in Bavaria and West London

    Article • January 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Laura J. Spence

  51. Redefining the Scholarship of Business Ethics: An Editorial

    Article • Journal of Business Ethics, November 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Laura J. Spence

  52. The ethics environment for e-Business

    Article • July 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Laura J. Spence

  53. Reinterpretation of a metaphor: from stakes to claims

    Article • Strategic Change, January 2003, Wiley

    Professor Laura J. Spence

  54. Article • Journal of Business Ethics, January 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Laura J. Spence

  55. Article • Journal of Business Ethics, January 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Laura J. Spence

  56. Article • Journal of Business Ethics, January 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Laura J. Spence

  57. Investigating the limits of competitive intelligence gathering: is mystery shopping ethical?

    Article • Business Ethics A European Review, October 2002, Wiley

    Professor Laura J. Spence

  58. 'Like building a new motorway': establishing the rules for ethical email use at a UK Higher Education Institution

    Article • Business Ethics A European Review, January 2002, Wiley

    Professor Laura J. Spence

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

    Article • Business and Society Review, December 2001, Wiley

    Professor Laura J. Spence

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

    Article • Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, June 2001, Emerald

    Professor Laura J. Spence

  61. Environmental management and the small firm

    Article • International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, December 2000, Emerald

    Professor Laura J. Spence

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

    Article • Business Ethics Quarterly, October 2000, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Laura J. Spence

  63. Small Business and the Environment in the UK and the Netherlands

    Article • Business Ethics Quarterly, January 2000, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Laura J. Spence

  64. Teaching business ethics: are there differences within Europe, and is there a European difference?

    Article • Business Ethics A European Review, January 2000, Wiley

    Professor Laura J. Spence

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

    Article • January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Laura J. Spence

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

    Article • Business Ethics A European Review, July 1999, Wiley

    Professor Laura J. Spence

  67. Small business social responsibility

    Article • GSE Research Limited

    Dr Vivek Soundararajan, Professor Laura J. Spence

  68. Small Business Ethics

    Article • SAGE Publications

    Professor Laura J. Spence

  69. Small Firm Accountability and Integrity

    Article • SAGE Publications

    Professor Laura J. Spence

  70. Is Europe distinctive from America? An overview of business ethics in Europe

    Article • Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Laura J. Spence

  71. The obfuscation of gender and feminism in CSR research and the academic community

    Article • GSE Research Limited

    Professor Laura J. Spence

  72. Introduction

    Article • Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Laura J. Spence

  73. Social Responsibility in the Supply Chain: CSR or Corporate Social Watchdogs?

    Article • Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Laura J. Spence

  74. Strategic CSR: Ambitions and Critiques

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Laura J. Spence

  75. Business ethics and social responsibility in small firms

    Article • Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Laura J. Spence

  76. Small business social responsibility and sustainability metrics: a focus on environmental performance measurement and waste

    Article • Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Laura J. Spence