scholarly journals Organizational Justice, Behavioral Ethics, and Corporate Social Responsibility: Finally the Three Shall Merge

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah E. Rupp ◽  
Patrick M. Wright ◽  
Samuel Aryee ◽  
Yadong Luo
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Organizational Behavior ◽  
Organizational Justice ◽  
Moral Behavior ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Behavioral Ethics ◽  
Power Differentials ◽  
Corporate Social

Issues of ethics, justice, and social responsibility are as fundamental to organizational behavior as they are to society at large. As contracts are forged, individuals employed, and power differentials created, opportunities for exploitation, oppression, and victimization emerge. In contrast, as social structures evolve, coordinated opportunities arise for imparting positive social change at the community, environmental, and societal levels. Inherent to all of these phenomena is the application of norms surrounding moral behavior. Norms about what is considered fair and ethical underlie how individuals perceive and evaluate the behaviors and decisions of others; how groups and societies define acceptable behavior; and how individuals, groups, and societies evaluate the decisions and actions of organizations. In addition to defining standards, these norms also drive the reactions (or sanctions) against those who violate them.

Corporate social responsibility strategies and their impact on employees’ commitment

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 172-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Mory ◽  
Bernd W. Wirtz ◽  
Vincent Göttel
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Organizational Commitment ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Organizational Behavior ◽  
Social Exchange ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Affective Organizational Commitment ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Corporate Social

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate how employees perceive corporate social responsibility (CSR) within their organizations, thus employees’ Internally Perceived CSR and how it impacts their organizational commitment. Design/methodology/approach – For conceptualizing, the constituents of Internally Perceived CSR – Individual CSR-Perception, Organizational CSR-Perception and their respective factors – are derived from social exchange theory, social identity theory and further relevant literature. The study’s research model is tested through a survey consulting 386 respondents from a company operating in renewable energies. Findings – The results lead to the following conclusions: Internally Perceived CSR strongly impacts employees’ Affective Organizational Commitment and comparatively low influences Normative Organizational Commitment. Moreover, Affective Organizational Commitment mediates Normative Organizational Commitment. Originality/value – The implementation of CSR has evolved to a crucial component of both organizational behavior and management. Nevertheless, the internal CSR-dimension has been largely neglected so far.

Coercive, mimetic and normative: Interdiscursivity in Malaysian CSR reports

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 424-444 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kumaran Rajandran
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Strategic Management ◽  
Financial Accounting ◽  
Normative Reasons ◽  
Reporting Practices ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
The Relationship

Malaysian corporations have to disclose corporate social responsibility (CSR), and a typical genre for disclosure is CSR reports. These reports incorporate other discourses which indicate the presence of interdiscursivity. The article examines interdiscursivity in Malaysian CSR reports. It selects the CSR reports of 10 major corporations and pursues an interdiscursive analysis which involves four sequential stages. CSR reports contain discourses of public relations, sustainability, strategic management, compliance and financial accounting. Although the discourses are often multisemiotic, language maintains primacy in content, while image tends to exemplify or simplify content. These discourses constitute an interdiscursive profile, and it has central and auxiliary discourses. The central discourse is public relations discourse, and it promotes corporations helping and not harming society. The auxiliary discourses are sustainability, strategic management, compliance and financial accounting discourses, and these discourses mitigate the promotional focus. Interdiscursivity enables the primarily promotional CSR reports to not seem overtly promotional. The choice of discourses is probably influenced by coercive, mimetic and normative reasons. These discourses enhance the reliability of CSR reports because their disclosure is anchored to various CSR aspects, international or reporting practices and professional domains. Interdiscursivity helps to build stakeholders’ confidence in disclosure and, therefore, in corporations. It joins other functions in CSR reports to convey corporations as agents of positive social change. The article also probes the relationship between interdiscursivity and intertextuality and advances a matrix of intertextual–interdiscursive use.

Delineating CSR and social change: Querying corporations as actors for social good

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Miller Gaither ◽  
Lucinda Austin ◽  
MaryClaire Schulz
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Descriptive Model ◽  
Social Good ◽  
Case Evaluation ◽  
Social Initiatives ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
The Relationship

This article seeks to delineate the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and social change and asks the important question of whether and how corporations may serve as agents of social change. Dimensions of the business–society relationship are explored to further distinguish CSR from other types of corporate social initiatives and critically examine what types of corporate social initiatives can effectively and ethically serve as vehicles for social change. Based on this exploration, the article advances a descriptive model of business–society relationships and their capacity for creating and promoting social change. A case evaluation of Coca-Cola’s ‘3Ws’ social initiatives – related to well-being, water, and women’s empowerment – is then used to highlight and contextualize the model.

scholarly journals Retro-Innovation and Corporate Social Responsibility

2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erika Loucanova ◽  
Jan Parobek ◽  
Martina Kalamarova
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
New Products ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Corporate Social

Abstract The paper deals with the retro-innovation and their importance to corporate social responsibility (CSR). Corporate social responsibility is a process with the aim to encourage a positive impact through activities on the environment, consumers, employees, communities, and all other stakeholders of the public sphere. The accelerated rate of technological and social change influences on the society. The main social problems are symptoms of future shock. Retro-innovation trend is emerging against an accelerating backdrop of “datafication”. New products are designed to connect customers with the past in ways that are nostalgic, interactive and environmental. CSR thanks to the retroinnovation encourages has a positive impact on the all stakeholders and eliminates the future shock.

The Influence of Corporate Social Responsibility on Incumbent Employees: A Meta-Analytic Investigation of the Mediating and Moderating Mechanisms

2020 ◽  
pp. 014920632094610 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoping Zhao ◽  
Chuang Wu ◽  
Chao C. Chen ◽  
Zucheng Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Organizational Justice ◽  
Organizational Identification ◽  
Organizational Trust ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Significant Heterogeneity ◽  
Mediating Mechanisms ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Mediation Models

This article reviews 86 studies and uses meta-analytical methods to investigate how perceived corporate social responsibility (CSR) impacts employee attitudes and behaviors and to identify the mediating mechanisms and boundary conditions. An initial review of this body of research finds a multitude of mediators but a limited focus on CSR typology as a potential moderator. Drawing upon social exchange theory, we develop and test two multivariate mediation models to integrate and synthesize three most-studied mediating mechanisms: organizational justice, organizational trust, and organizational identification. Meta-analyses find that while all three mechanisms within the parallel mediation model are equally significant in mediating the effect of perceived CSR on organizational commitment and job satisfaction, organizational identification is superior to organizational justice and organizational trust in mediating the effect of CSR perceptions on organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) and turnover intention. It is also found that although both mediation models adequately represent the accumulated empirical data, the sequential model is statistically superior to the parallel model. Although meta–structural equation modeling analyses reveal minimal differences between the broadly defined internal and external CSR perceptions, significant heterogeneity exists between perceived CSR and the outcome variables. The additional analyses suggest that significant differences exist between more specific stakeholder CSR types. In summary, this article extends our understanding of how employees perceive and respond to CSR through multiple sociopsychological mechanisms in additive and sequential fashions and how such responses could differ depending on the specific stakeholder subgroups targeted by CSR. Theoretical contributions and future research directions are also discussed.

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