STAKESBringing society to stakeholder theory. A four-year study of what business does for people in seven fragile countries.

Team publications 2015 to 2025

The work STAKES starts from.

Ten years of work on one stubborn question: can a company do anything useful for a place that is coming apart? The answers here run from a coffee cooperative in rural Colombia to small firms in Beirut trading through a currency collapse, by way of Myanmar, Langa, and a long argument about industrial relations theory. Two of the papers take stock of the field at twenty years, once backwards and once forwards. This is the ground STAKES builds on.

Funder
Research Council of Norway
Project number
353416
Scheme
FRIPRO Researcher Project for Scientific Renewal
Term
1 Jul 2025 to 29 Jun 2029
Host
Centre for Global Sustainability (GLOBE/SUM), University of Oslo
Lead
Jason Miklian
2015Forrer & Katsos

Business and Peace in the Buffer Condition

Academy of Management Perspectives

10.5465/amp.2013.0130
2016Rettberg

Need, creed, and greed: Understanding why business leaders focus on issues of peace

Business Horizons

10.1016/j.bushor.2016.03.012
2017Oetzel & Miklian

Multinational enterprises, risk management, and the business and economics of peace

Multinational Business Review

10.1108/mbr-09-2017-0064
2018Schouten & Miklian

The business–peace nexus: ‘business for peace’ and the reconfiguration of the public/private divide in global governance

Journal of International Relations and Development

10.1057/s41268-018-0144-2
2019Miklian

Contextualising and theorising economic development, local business and ethnic cleansing in Myanmar

Conflict, Security & Development

10.1080/14678802.2019.1561624
2019Schrempf-Stirling & Van Buren III

Business and human rights scholarship in social issues in management: an analytical review

Business and Human Rights Journal

10.1017/bhj.2019.23
2019Rettberg

Peace-making amidst an unfinished social contract: the case of Colombia

Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding

10.1080/17502977.2019.1619655
2020Katsos

Business, human rights and peace: linking the academic conversation

Business and Human Rights Journal

10.1017/bhj.2020.5
2020Joseph, Katsos & Daher

Local business, local peace? Intergroup and economic dynamics

Journal of Business Ethics

10.1007/s10551-020-04515-3
2020Van Buren III, Greenwood & Donaghey

Agonising over industrial relations: bringing agonism and dissensus to the pluralist frames of reference

Journal of Industrial Relations

10.1177/0022185620962536
2021Miklian & Barkemeyer

Business, peacebuilding, violent conflict and sustainable development in Myanmar: presenting evidence from a new survey dataset

Journal of Asia Business Studies

10.1108/jabs-11-2020-0428
2024Cechvala & Ganson

Systems perspectives on business and peace: the contingent nature of business-related action with respect to peace positive impacts

Journal of Business Ethics 194(3), 523–544

10.1007/s10551-023-05593-9
2024Fort, Katsos & Miklian

Business and Peace, Part I: insights from the first 20 years of B+P scholarship

Business Horizons 67(6), 663–669

10.1016/j.bushor.2024.09.001
2024Miklian & Katsos

Ethical Leadership in Conflict and Crisis

Cambridge Elements

10.1017/9781009446891
2025Fort, Katsos & Miklian

Business and Peace, Part II: positioning B+P for the next 20 years

Business Horizons 68(4), 385–391

10.1016/j.bushor.2025.04.006
2025Maalouf, Miklian & Hoelscher

Business survival strategies in a polycrisis: SME experiences from Beirut, Lebanon

Business Horizons 68(4), 461–477

10.1016/j.bushor.2025.03.002
2025Hanoteau, Miklian & Barkemeyer

Business and violent conflict as a multidimensional relationship: the case of post-Reformasi Indonesia

Business Horizons 68(4), 425–438

10.1016/j.bushor.2025.02.014