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- Belinga, Rachelle, et al.
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Maintain or Disrupt: Narratives of Sustainability in Finance
- 2020
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Management scholars are increasingly mobilizing research to better address grand challenges that face society. One such challenge is that of integrating sustainability in finance, which involves combining financial objectives with non-financial concerns in investment decision-making. In mixing in non-financial concerns, sustainability is at odds with a traditional finance approach in which profit maximization plays a guiding role. Recent research has shown what actors are doing to embed sustainability in finance; however, they have done so from disparate theoretical traditions. A central tension that has emerged is that of embedding sustainability practices in existing structures or engaging in a friction between sustainability and traditional approaches to finance. We build on the tradition of Institutional Work and the concepts of maintenance and disruption to conceptualize this tension. In this symposium we propose four empirical papers from different view-points (hedge funds, conservation finance, academia, and asset management firms) and extend theory with a discussion on the interplay between maintenance and disruption in grand challenges.
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- Brès, Luc, et al.
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Rethinking professionalization : A generative dialogue on CSR practitioners
- 2019
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Ingår i: Journal of Professions and Organization. - : Oxford University Press (OUP): Policy F - Oxford Open Option D. - 2051-8811 .- 2051-8803. ; 6:2, s. 246-264
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Studies of emerging professions are more and more at the crossroad of different fields of research, and field boundaries thus hamper the development of a full-fledged conversation. In an attempt to bridge these boundaries, this article offers a 'generative dialogue' about the redefinition of the professionalization project through the case of corporate social responsibility (CSR) practitioners. We bring together prominent scholars from two distinct academic communities-CSR and the professions-to shed light on some of the unsolved questions and dilemmas around contemporary professionalization through an example of an emerging profession. Key learnings from this dialogue point us toward the rethinking of processes of professionalization, in particular the role of expertise, the unifying force of common normative goals, and collaborative practises between networks of stakeholders. As such, we expand the research agenda for scholars of the professions and of CSR.
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- Gond, Jean-Pascal, et al.
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Materializing power to recover corporate social responsibility
- 2017
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Ingår i: Organization Studies. - : Sage Publications. - 0170-8406 .- 1741-3044. ; 38:8, s. 1127-1148
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Through the development of CSR ratings, metrics and management tools, corporate social responsibility is currently materialized at an unprecedented scale within and across organizations. However, the material dimension of CSR and the inherent political potential in this materialization have been neglected. Drawing on insights from actor-network theory and the critical discussion of current approaches to power in CSR studies, we offer an alternative sociomaterial conceptualization of power in order to clarify how power works through materialized forms of CSR. We develop a framework that explains both how power is constituted within materialized forms of CSR through processes of ‘assembling/disassembling’, and how power is mobilized through materialized forms of CSR through processes of ‘overflowing/framing’. From this framework, we derive four tactics that clarify how CSR materializations can be seized by marginalized actors to ‘recover’ CSR. Our analysis aims to renew CSR studies by showing the potential of CSR for progressive politics.
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- Gond, Jean-Pascal, et al.
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Mirroring and switching authoritative personae: A ventriloquial analysis of shareholder engagement on carbon emissions
- 2024
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Ingår i: Human Relations. - : SAGE Publications. - 1741-282X .- 0018-7267.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We examine how the authority of investors to speak about climate change with corporations is established. Leveraging the ‘communication as constitutive of organisations’ (CCO) perspective, we analyse who speaks on behalf of whom (or what) in shareholder engagement on corporate carbon emissions. Based on access to private dialogues between an engager acting on behalf of a pool of investors with 20 utility corporations, we identify how three authoritative personae—that of diplomat, advocate, and coach—convey climate change concerns. We find that the mirroring of these authoritative personae by corporations may lead to deliberation, evasion, or rejection of the suggested courses of action. We theorise how relational authority is communicatively constituted in shareholder engagement through a process of mirroring and switching between authoritative personae. Our framework contributes to the study of CCO and relational authority by highlighting how meta-figures are used by external actors in an attempt to author appropriate corporate actions. We discuss the implications of our framework for the role of shareholder engagement in current attempts at greening financial capitalism.
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