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- Belinga, Rachelle, et al.
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Finance at business schools: The challenges of teaching and learning sustainable finance
- 2019
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Sustainable finance is a major research area for scholars concerned with new societal challenges. However, although business education also falls within the scope of societal challenges, little is known on how sustainable finance is being taught to future investors, and more largely financiers. As we are currently carrying out an on-going research program with the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education on finance curricula at top business schools, we identify here the main challenges for teaching – and consequently learning- sustainable finance. In particular, we propose a dedicated research protocol to control for finance programs’ hidden curriculum and significant learning by business students.
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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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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)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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- Belinga, Rachelle, et al.
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Teaching Sustainable Finance
- 2020
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Reports (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Financial professionals are not trained to integrate ESG in their work. They predominantly learn 'on the job' how to integrate ESG. •To support the further development of sustainable finance markets, universities need to further integrate core sustainability issues in finance education.•We carried out 52interviews with leading scholars and lecturers in sustainable finance education to capture how sustainable finance is currently being taught.•Sustainable finance teachers1have very diverse profiles and backgrounds. Many are not trained in finance but in other social sciences and even in environmental science. Nonetheless, they share the common belief that finance should contribute to solving sustainability issues. •Integration strategies range from electives to core courses and master’s degree specialization. While core courses are necessary to expose all students to sustainability issues in finance, in-depth elective or master courses are valuable to create expertise.•In sustainable finance lectures, students may be introduced to main issues and strategies in sustainable finance,or develop technical skills and holistic reasoning.•Teaching resources rely heavily on practitioner outputs, but case studies and textbooks are currently being developed and shared among teachers and academic groups. •The lack of individual career incentives (such as research outcomes) and resources hinders the mobilization of teachers for sustainable finance.•Participation in sustainable finance academic groups facilitates the integration of sustainable finance education and enhances teaching practices.
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Corporate Social Responsibility : Strategy, Communication, Governance
- 2017. - 1st Edition
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Editorial collection (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This upper-level textbook offers an original and up-to-date introduction to issues in corporate social responsibility (CSR) from a global perspective. Written by an international team of experts, it guides students through key themes in CSR including strategy, communication, regulation and governance. Balancing critiques of CSR with a discussion of the opportunities it creates, it includes chapters devoted to critical issues such as human rights, anti-corruption, labour rights and the environment. Pedagogical features include customised case studies, study questions, key term highlighting, practitioner pieces and suggestions for further resources. The book is also complemented by a companion website featuring adaptable lecture slides, teaching notes for cases and links to related resources. Tailored for upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate courses on corporate social responsibility, sustainability and business ethics, it is also relevant to non-business courses in political science, international relations and communications
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- Enrico, Fontana, et al.
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Saving the World? How CSR Practitioners Live Their Calling by Constructing Different Types of Purpose in Three Occupational Stages
- 2023
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In: Journal of Business Ethics. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0167-4544 .- 1573-0697. ; 185, s. 741-766
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Much attention in the meaningful work literature has been devoted to calling as an orientation toward work characterized by a strong sense of purpose and a prosocial motivation beyond self-gain. Nonetheless, debate remains as to whether individuals change or maintain their calling, and especially whether they live their calling differently in different occupational stages. In this article, we respond to this conundrum through an analysis of the corporate social responsibility (CSR) occupation – substantiated by interviews with 57 CSR practitioners from Swedish international companies who are living their calling. We demonstrate that social/commercial tensions affect these CSR practitioners, fueled by a divide between their social aspirations and the commercial goals, and prompt them to respond in a way that impacts how they construct the purpose of their work. Subsequently, we induce three stages of the CSR occupation – early-, mid- and late-stage – and conceptualize three types of purpose in each stage – activistic, win-win and corporate purpose. By uncovering how and why CSR practitioners respond to social/commercial tensions and construct different types of purpose in each stage of the CSR occupation, we show that individuals can live the same calling in multiple ways. Hence, our article advances the meaningful work literature as well as studies of micro-CSR.
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- Frandsen, Sanne, et al.
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Behind the Stigma Shield : Frontline Employees’ Emotional Response to Organizational Event Stigma at Work and at Home
- 2022
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In: Journal of Management Studies. - : Wiley. - 0022-2380 .- 1467-6486. ; 59:8, s. 1987-2023
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- We investigate how frontline employees manage their emotional experiences of organizational event stigma as an implication of organizational wrongdoing. Our research is based on a longitudinal case study of Danske Bank, which was involved in a money laundering scandal of historical magnitude. We evoke Goffman’s epistemological understanding of stigma as arising in social interactions in all aspects of life. We analyse the emotionally straining spill-over effects of stigmatization at home, as event stigma blurs individuals’ work–home boundaries. Our study shows how frontline employees develop a ‘stigma shield’, that is, emotional detachment strategies used at work and at home to protect against the negative implications of event stigmatization and maintain their organizational pride and loyalty. Interestingly, we find that the stigma shield enables identity protection rather than identity restructuring in response to the identity threat posed by the scandal. We contribute to the literature on organizational event stigma and identity threat by offering a theoretical lens focusing on individual-level emotional responses to ‘felt’ stigmatization among frontline employees in an organization facing scandal.
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- Frandsen, Sanne, et al.
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How CSR Practitioners reformulate their calling through social-symbolic work practices over time
- 2021
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Calling has gained importance in the career and organization scholarship as a key concept to better explain the meaningfulness of work from a humanistic perspective. On the contrary, much debate remains about the ways a calling–and the meaningfulness intertwined with it–can transform over time. To respond to this problem in the literature, we investigate the calling of corporate social responsibility (CSR), thereby offering an analysis of sixty-six interviews with fifty-seven CSR practitioners working in Swedish international companies. Our paper indicates that the social-commercial tensions affecting CSR practitioners, exacerbated by the schism between their social aspirations and the commercial goals embedded in their work, prompt them to engage with social-symbolic work practices that have a bearing on the meaningfulness they assign to their CSR calling over time. As a result, we theorize three predominant sources of meaningfulness that CSR practitioners ascribe to their CSR calling–activistic purpose, win-win purpose and corporate purpose–and outline that CSR practitioners continuously reconstruct them as they engage with social-symbolic work practices throughout their early, mid and late career stage. Our article sheds new light on the existence of discrepant sources of meaningfulness behind a calling, specifying that these sources change depending on career stages. In so doing, it contributes to the career and organization scholarship as well as the literature on the professionalization of CSR.
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- Frandsen, Sanne, et al.
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Inside the Stigma Panzer: Organizational Members’ Emotional Work in Response to Organizational Event
- 2020
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- We investigate how organizational members manage their emotional experiences of organizational event stigma as an implication of organizational wrongdoing. Our research is based on a longitudinal case study of Best Bank, that has been involved in a money laundering scandal of historical magnitude. Our study of organizational members shows how their pride and organizational loyalty makes them develop a ‘stigma panzer’, i.e. a number of emotional responses when at work as well as at home, that serves to protect them against the negative implications of the event stigmatization. We show how the stigma panzer may benefit the individual employee facing the event stigma at work, while we question if this emotional stigma panzer at home is also beneficial for the organization. We conclude by calling for more stigma research to understand better the implications of emotions at work and at home for organizational stigma related to organizational wrongdoing.
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- Glozer, Sarah, et al.
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Helpful hypocrisy? Investigating 'double-talk' and irony in CSR marketing communications
- 2020
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In: Journal of Business Research. - : Elsevier. - 0148-2963. ; 114, s. 363-375
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Conventional definitions of corporate hypocrisy focus on decoupling talk and action; incidences where an organization's 'talk' does not match its 'walk'. However, in the context of corporate social responsibility (CSR), marketing communications are often aspirational and hence prone to accusations of hypocrisy. We therefore ask: is hypocrisy always undesirable? This case-informed conceptual paper draws upon the Diesel 'Global Warming Ready' campaign to investigate how humor - specifically irony - elevates conventional understandings of hypocrisy towards what we term 'helpful hypocrisy'; the mobilization of critical reflection on complex ambiguities of CSR in non-moralizing ways. In doing so, we distinguish between idealized 'single-talk' and extended 'double-talk'. We develop an analytical model to help analyze the layers of double-talk in the context of ironic CSR marketing communications, and we construct a conceptual model that explains the role of double-talk and irony. Based on our research, we propose an agenda for future research.
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- Moon, Jeremy, et al.
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Communication and CSR : Introduction
- 2017. - 1st Edition
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In: Corporate Social Responsibility: Strategy, Communication, Governance. - Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press. - 9781316335529 ; , s. 279-280
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- Moon, Jeremy, et al.
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The Governance of Transnational Issues: Introduction
- 2017. - 1st Edition
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In: Corporate Social Responsibility: Strategy, Communication, Governance. - Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press. - 9781316335529 ; , s. 377-378
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- Morsing, Mette, et al.
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Assessing the Legitimacy of “Open” and “Closed” Data Partnerships for Sustainable Development
- 2021
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In: Business and Society. - : SAGE Publications (UK and US). - 1552-4205 .- 0007-6503. ; 60:3, s. 547-581
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article examines the legitimacy attached to different types of multistakeholder data partnerships occurring in the context of sustainable development. We develop a framework to assess the democratic legitimacy of two types of data partnerships: open data partnerships (where data and insights are mainly freely available) and closed data partnerships (where data and insights are mainly shared within a network of organizations). Our framework specifies criteria for assessing the legitimacy of relevant partnerships with regard to their input legitimacy as well as their output legitimacy. We demonstrate which particular characteristics of open and closed partnerships can be expected to influence an analysis of their input and output legitimacy.
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- Morsing, Mette, et al.
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Corporate social responsibility (CSR) communication and small and medium sized enterprises: The governmentality dilemma of explicit and implicit CSR communication
- 2019
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In: Human Relations. - : SAGE Publications (UK and US) / Springer Verlag (Germany). - 1741-282X .- 0018-7267. ; 72:12, s. 1920-1947
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Businesses that promote corporate social responsibility (CSR) through their supply chains by requiring their suppliers to report on and otherwise communicate their CSR are doing a great thing, aren’t they? In this article, we challenge this assumption by focusing on the impact on small and medium sized enterprise (SME) suppliers when their large customer firms pressurize them to make their implicit CSR communication more explicit. We expose a ‘dark side’ to assumed improvements in CSR reporting within a supply chain. We present a conceptual framework that draws on previous research on communication constitutes organization (CCO) theory, implicit and explicit CSR, and Foucault’s governmentality. We identify and discuss the implications of three resulting dilemmas faced by SMEs: authenticity commercialization, values control and identity disruption. The overarching contribution of our article is to extend theorizing on CSR communication and conceptual research on CSR in SME suppliers (small business social responsibility). From a practice and policy perspective, it is not ultimately clear that promoting CSR reporting among SMEs will necessarily improve socially responsible practice.
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- Morsing, Mette
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CSR Communication : What is it? Why is it important?
- 2017. - 1st Edition
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In: Corporate Social Responsibility: Strategy, Communication, Governance. - Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press. - 9781316335529 ; , s. 281-306
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- Morsing, Mette, et al.
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License to Critique: A Communication Perspective on Sustainability Standards
- 2017
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In: Business Ethics Quarterly. - : Philosophy Documentation Center / Cambridge University Press (CUP): HSS Journals - No Cambridge Open. - 1052-150X .- 2153-3326. ; 27:2, s. 239-262
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Sustainability standards are important governance tools for addressing social and environmental challenges. Yet, such tools are often criticized for being either too open-ended or too restrictive, thereby failing to contribute significantly to the development of sustainable practices. Both dimensions of the critique, however, miss the point. While all standards in principle combine elements of openness and closure, both of which are necessary to keep the sustainability agenda relevant and adaptive, sustainability standards often operate in contexts that favor closure. In this article, we draw on a research tradition that views communication as constitutive of organization to emphasize the significance of communicative mechanisms that stimulate organizational openness in the application of standards. With the notion of “license to critique,” we present a managerial philosophy designed to involve managers and employees, mobilize and develop their knowledge about sustainability and bring it forward for the benefit of both the organization and the environment.
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- Morsing, Mette, et al.
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Saint organizations: Too good to be true? Identity tensions of positive deviance for members.
- 2018
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- In this paper, we develop a conceptual model that demonstrates how positive deviance can produce dysfunctional effects in organizations. Our research objective is to extend the traditional understanding and vocabulary of organizational negative deviance to include the opposite deviant side of “normality”, namely positive deviance in the form of saint organizations whose deviance is a positive over-conformity to moral norms. Saint organizations acquire their saint status as they are exposed to a high public visibility that includes an extra-ordinary virtuous valence and a dedicated emphasis on contributing to the social betterment of the planet and its peoples. Whereas prior research has focused on how such public positive admiration strengthens organizational member identification, we offer a conceptualization that shows how the public’s large-scale admiration of an organization’s moral over-conformity may instead lead to identity tensions, when members become addicted to the public admiration of the organizational moral identity. We refer to this phenomenon as saint junkies, where members over-identify with the organizational moral identity attributed by the public to their workplace. We provide a heuristic model that explains the process from positive deviance to saint junkies that results in five identity tensions for members: onstage burnout, sense of fakeness, risk of hubris, moral drift, and exaggerated ego-defenses. We conclude by suggesting venues for future empirical and theoretical studies of saint organizations and their implications for organizational members.
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- Morsing, Mette, et al.
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Talk-Action Dynamics: Modalities of aspirational talk
- 2021
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In: Organization Studies. - : SAGE Publications (UK and US). - 1741-3044 .- 0170-8406. ; 42:3, s. 407-427
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper investigates talk-action dynamics in the context of organizations, focusing in particular on situations where the talk concerns complex organizational aspirations, that is, situations where the implied action takes considerable effort to unfold and therefore extends into an unknown future. Using corporate social responsibility (CSR) as recurrent exemplar, we address talk-action dynamics in four different modalities of aspirational CSR talk: exploration, formulation, implementation and evaluation. By conceptualizing the precarious relationship between talk and action in each of these modalities, the paper disentangles talk and action, all the while acknowledging that the two are mutually intertwined. Hereby, the paper extends theories of communicative performativity, recovering the perlocutionary dimension and focusing on uptake beyond the moment in which the speech act is uttered.
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- Morsing, Mette, et al.
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The Legitimacy of Data Partnerships for Sustainable Development
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper examines the legitimacy attached to different types of multi-stakeholder data partnerships occurring in the context of sustainable development. We develop a framework to assess the democratic legitimacy of two types of data partnerships: open data partnerships (where data and insights are mainly freely available) and closed data partnerships (where data and insights are mainly shared within a network of organizations). Our framework specifies criteria for assessing the legitimacy of relevant partnerships with regard to their input legitimacy as well as their output legitimacy. We demonstrate which particular characteristics of open and closed partnerships can be expected to influence an analysis of their input and output legitimacy.
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- Morsing, Mette, et al.
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The Ongoing Dynamics of Integrating Sustainability into Business Practice: The Case of Novo Nordisk A/S
- 2019. - 1st
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In: Managing Sustainable Business - An Executive Education Case and Textbook. - Dordrecht : Springer Dordrecht. - 9789402411447 - 9789402411423 ; , s. 637-669
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This study raises the question of how managers can adopt appropriate management control systems to communicate to employees and other stakeholders what behavior is desired, and how they can work to ensure that their corporate sustainability claims are implemented at the operational level. That is, how can organizations demonstrate that their sustainability declarations are not just “good looks”. Specifically, the study unfolds Novo Nordisk’s long-term commitment to sustainable practices and the company’s validation of these practices by focusing on how issues of sustainability have been integrated and cascaded throughout the entire organisation via the company’s “Way of Management”.
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- Murphy, Luisa, et al.
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Cross-Sector Partnerships as Capitalism's New Development Agents: Reconceiving Impact as Empowerment
- 2020
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In: Business and Society. - : SAGE Publications (UK and US). - 0007-6503 .- 1552-4205. ; 59:7, s. 1339-1376
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Cross-sector partnerships are currently praised as capitalism’s key governance instrument to address development challenges. Although some concern has been raised about the effectiveness of such partnerships, little is known about their actual impact. Often it is assumed that partnership outputs transform straightforwardly into societal impact such as poverty alleviation. This article problematizes this assumption. Employing a critical micro-level study, which draws on a qualitative case study of a nongovernmental organization (NGO)–business partnership in Ghana, we examine how outputs provided by a partnership are put to use and perceived as beneficial from the point of view of its beneficiaries. The findings show that the partnership results in what we term “competences without agency” since it provides new resources and knowledge to the beneficiaries but fails to generate the conditions for these to be transformed into significant changes in their lives. Drawing on the concept of empowerment, we propose a new framework, which conceptualizes “impact as empowerment” and highlights currently unrecognized dynamics, which contribute to shaping the ability of a partnership to serve as a development agent.
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- Olkkonen, Laura, et al.
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A Processual Model of CEO Activism: Activities, Frames, and Phases
- 2023
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In: Business and Society. - : SAGE Publications (UK and US). - 1552-4205 .- 0007-6503. ; 62:3, s. 646-694
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Chief executive officers (CEOs) engage in activism when they take public stances on sensitive socio-political issues. In this study, we address the less-explored activities that constitute CEO activism beyond single stances as the activism is maintained over time. The data cover 6 years of campaign and media materials from a case company with several CEO-initiated activist campaigns. Our findings from an inductive analysis contribute to CEO activism theorizing in three ways. First, we extend CEO activism conceptually by identifying five underlying activities that support a public stance: anchoring motivations, modeling action, taking agency, enduring criticism, and normalizing activism. Second, we bridge individual- and organization-level analyses by depicting how a CEO involves a company in activism through activities that justify interrelated topic frame and role frame. Third, we develop a processual model that includes the pre-stance, stance-taking, and post-stance phases and explains how the underlying activities are interrelated and follow a pattern that serves to maintain CEO activism. Accordingly, CEO activism includes activities, through the pre-stance, stance-taking, and post-stance phases, whereby a CEO deliberately engages personally and through a company in public debate about sensitive socio-political issues and the role of businesses in addressing them.
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- Rasche, Andreas, et al.
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The Regulatory Dynamics of CSR: Introduction
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In: Corporate Social Responsibility: Strategy, Communication, Governance. - 9781316335529 ; , s. 161-162
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- Schoeneborn, Dennis, et al.
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Formative Perspectives on the Relation Between CSR Communication and CSR Practices: Pathways for Walking, Talking, and T(w)alking
- 2020
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In: Business and Society. - : SAGE Publications (UK and US). - 1552-4205 .- 0007-6503. ; 59:1, s. 5-33
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Within the burgeoning corporate social responsibility (CSR) communication literature, the question of the relationship between CSR practices and CSR communication (or between “walk” and “talk”) has been a central concern. Recently, we observe a growing interest in formative views on the relation between CSR communication and practices, that is, works which ascribe to communication a constitutive role in creating, maintaining, and transforming CSR practices. This article provides an overview of the heterogeneous landscape of formative views on CSR communication scholarship. More specifically, we distinguish between three variants of such formative views: walking-to-talk, talking-to-walk, and t(w)alking. These three orientations differ primarily regarding the temporal dynamics that they ascribe to the relation between CSR communication and practices and regarding the object that is formed through communication. This new typology helps systematize the emerging field of research on CSR communication, and we use it as a compass to provide directions for future research in this area.
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- Stohl, Cynthia, et al.
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A Conversation about Three Key yet Underexplored Tensions in Contemporary Notions of CSR Communication
- 2022. - 1
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In: The Routledge Handbook of Corporate Social Responsibility Communication. - New York : Routledge. - 9781000784237 - 100318491X - 1000784231 - 9781000784251 - 9781003184911 - 1000784258 - 9781032019093 - 9781032027326 - 1032027320 - 1032019093 ; , s. 101-112
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- In this conversation, the authors identity and discuss three communicative tensions found in contemporary conceptualizations of CSR: voluntary/regulatory regime, talk/action dichotomy, and transparency/opacity continuum. The conversation unpacks the tensions and illuminates the communicative implications of the assumptions as well as what they mean for CSR communication research.
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- Thyssen, Ole, et al.
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Timely hypocrisy? Hypocrisy temporalities in CSR communication
- 2020
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In: Journal of Business Research. - : Elsevier. - 0148-2963. ; 114, s. 327-335
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Hypocrisy is usually understood as inconsistencies between talk and action. Most research on hypocrisy in the context of corporate social responsibility (CSR) tends to evaluate such inconsistencies in the immediate present, thus disregarding the temporal dynamics of hypocrisy, that is, what hypocrisy might do to organizations and society over time. Taking our point of departure in a performative notion of communication, we present time as an important intervening factor in talk-action relationships. Specifically, we base our discussion on a reflexive conception of time according to which dimensions of the past and the future are inevitably reflected in the ongoing present. On this backdrop, we propose four temporal modes of hypocrisy: aspiration, deferment, evasion, and re-narration. Applying our discussion to the context of CSR, we consider in each mode the performative potential of hypocrisy beyond the immediate presence.
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