Sustainability and corporate governance of benefit corporation: The Illycaffè cas

Journal title CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
Author/s Rosaria Ferlito, Rosario Faraci
Publishing Year 2022 Issue 2021/2
Language Italian Pages 20 P. 45-64 File size 0 KB
DOI 10.3280/cgrds2-2021oa12550
DOI is like a bar code for intellectual property: to have more infomation click here

FrancoAngeli is member of Publishers International Linking Association, Inc (PILA), a not-for-profit association which run the CrossRef service enabling links to and from online scholarly content.

The last few years have been characterized by the growth of hybrid organizations, firms which present multiple functional domains and the coexistence of different value systems. They have an enlarged corporate governance model that requires the assumption of responsibility towards not only the shareholders, but also towards all stakeholders.So, the aim of this paper is to explore the three aspects of governance that characterize a hybrid organization, the balancing of different logics, the monitoring of actions and results and external communication, in order to identify the actions to be implemented to solve the managerial tensions of this organizational model. In order to achieve the research’s goal, the authors consider Italian benefit corporations that pursue both profit and common benefit. The empirical evidences deriving from the case study presented about Italian firm, Illycaffè, create new knowledge about corporate governance and sustainability management literature.

Keywords: ; corporate governance; triple sustainability; hybrid organizations; benefit corporation; case study

  • Introduction to the Special Issue Salvatore Esposito De Falco, Rosario Faraci, Daniel Torchia, in CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT STUDIES 1/2024 pp.11
    DOI: 10.3280/cgrds1-2024oa17560

Rosaria Ferlito, Rosario Faraci, Sostenibilità e sistemi di Corporate Governance delle società benefit: il in "CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT STUDIES" 2/2021, pp 45-64, DOI: 10.3280/cgrds2-2021oa12550