Article History
First Online: 24 October 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: This paper emerged from a multi-year research collaboration between the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, and an internal think tank of the global manufacturer, Food Co. (pseudonym). Food Co. funded Saïd Business School to conduct research on ‘Mutuality in Business’ and as part of this research programme, Oxford Saïd funded a workstream on ‘Conceptualizing Mutuality’, on which the findings of this paper are based.
: Ethics approval for the research was granted by the University of Oxford, Social Sciences and Humanities Interdivisional Research Ethics Committee.
: All participants in the study provided either written or oral consent to the inclusion of material pertaining to themselves in publications, subject to the condition that their identity be anonymized fully.
: The terms of Oxford Saïd’s contract with Food Co. required that we carry out our work within a framework of agreement that allowed for academic independence, subject to respecting the anonymity of the corporation and its employees. Editorial control remains with authors, and the company may not alter the findings or the opinions expressed in this, or any paper.