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Innovating to Flourish
Toward a Theory of Organizing for Positive Impact
UDAYAN DHAR AND RONALD FRY
SCHOLARS OF CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY, business ethics, and sustainability have proposed that it is no longer a question of whether a business can “do well by doing good” but of how a business can do so (Glavas and Mish 2015). A review of the six-year history of more than 800 “benefit corporations” or B-Corps (Chen and Kelly 2015) found that these companies had a statistically significant revenue growth rate that outpaced the average revenue growth of similar public companies. Yet, some evidence also suggests that the import of grand challenges ...
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