Contribution short abstract

To overcome disciplinary silos and integrate different strands of research, we developed a typology of company-community environmental governance and conceptualised four types of interactions with their outcome on natural common-pool resources.

Contribution long abstract

Scholars and practitioners seeking solutions to environmental degradation have increasingly paid attention to the interactions between companies and communities. However, research remains divided into Business and Management on one side and Environmental and Development Studies on the other. In this paper, we analyse how different streams of literature have conceptualised and addressed the interactions between companies and communities in managing natural common-pool resources. We combine bibliometric techniques with an in-depth qualitative method to review 554 publications from the past 25 years. We provide three contributions. First, we identify the main theoretical frameworks and map the recent literature on our research topic, highlighting its fragmentation, which we define as the presence of distinct silos. Secondly, we introduce a typology of company-community environmental governance to highlight the convergences and differences across streams of literature. Thirdly, we propose a research agenda as a first step to guide explanatory interdisciplinary research on company-community environmental governance.