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The Role of NGOs in CSR: Mutual Perceptions Among Stakeholders 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
This paper explores the role of NGOs in corporate social responsibility (CSR) through an analysis of various stakeholders’
perceptions and of NGOs’ self-perceptions. In the course of qualitative research based in Spain, we found that the perceptions
of the role of NGOs fall into four categories: recognition of NGOs as drivers of CSR; concerns about their legitimacy; difficulties
in the mutual understanding between NGOs and trade unions; the self-confidence of NGOs as important players in CSR. Each of
these categories comprises the various elements analysed in the paper. We found some discrepancies between the perception
of others and the self-perceptions of NGOs, which explains why their role is often controversial. The research confirms that
secondary stakeholders, such as NGOs, are key players in CSR, but their role is still regarded as controversial and their
legitimacy contested. Deep-seated misunderstandings and mistrust among various stakeholder groups (particularly between NGOs
and trade unions) are a possible hurdle to the integration of social and environmental concerns in business activity and corporate
governance in Spain. The study finds that business managers need to take a less firm-centric and a more contextual approach,
and look more closely into the relationship with and among stakeholder groups. For NGO managers, the research shows that NGOs
are not always aware of the stereotypes they generate and the problems caused mainly by what is seen as ambivalent roles:
critic and counsellor, accuser and judge, idealist and fund raiser.
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Daniel ArenasEmail: |
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Over the past decade, discussion has flourished among practitioners and academics regarding workers’ rights in developing
countries. The lack of enforcement of national labour laws and the limited protection of workers’ rights in developing countries
have led workers’ rights representatives to attempt to establish transnational industrial relations systems to complement
existing national systems. In practice, these attempts have mainly been operationalised in unilateral codes of conduct; recently,
however, negotiated international framework agreements (IFAs) have been proposed as an alternative. Despite their growing
importance, few studies have empirically studied IFAs. This paper starts to fill this gap by studying why corporations adopt
IFAs, based on a qualitative study of the process leading to the signing of a recent IFA. The study’s findings complement
existing research into why corporations adopt IFAs, codes of conduct, and CSR policies by demonstrating that corporate motives
can be linked to a desire to retain a trusting relationship with the labour union movement. In addition, the findings indicate
that the discrete campaign model of stakeholder pressure dominant in previous research should be complemented by a continuous
bargaining model of stakeholder pressure. The paper concludes by discussing differences between these conceptual models of
stakeholder pressure and avenues for future research.
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Niklas Egels-ZandénEmail: |
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Thomas Maak 《Journal of Business Ethics》2007,74(4):329-343
I argue in this article that responsible leadership (Maak and Pless, 2006) contributes to building social capital and ultimately
to both a sustainable business and the common good. I show, first, that responsible leadership in a global stakeholder society
is a relational and inherently moral phenomenon that cannot be captured in traditional dyadic leader–follower relationships
(e.g., to subordinates) or by simply focusing on questions of leadership effectiveness. Business leaders have to deal with
moral complexity resulting from a multitude of stakeholder claims and have to build enduring and mutually beneficial relationships
with all relevant stakeholders. I contend, second, that in doing so leaders bundle the energy of␣different constituencies
and enable social capital building. Social capital can be understood as actual or potential resources inherent to more or
less institutionalized relationships of mutual recognition (Bourdieu 1980). By drawing on network analysis I suggest, third,
that responsible leaders weave durable relational structures and ultimately networks of relationships which are rich in ties
to otherwise unconnected individuals or groups. Against this background I argue, fourth, that responsible leadership may result
in the creation of value networks (Lord and Brown, 2001) of multiple stakeholders, which enhance social capital and thereby contribute to both a sustainable
business and the common good.
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Thomas MaakEmail: |
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Carmen Valor 《Journal of Consumer Policy》2008,31(3):315-326
This paper analyses one of the business case arguments for social responsibility: that corporate social responsibility plans
are rewarded by consumers. This paper explores the ability of consumers to buy responsibly, identifies the main obstacles
for responsible consumption, and suggests conditions for it to work. The review of previous studies leads us to conclude that
consuming responsibly is seen as a time consuming activity, economically disadvantageous, and stressful. The main thesis of
this paper is that unless market failures are corrected, consumers will not be able to buy responsibly, and therefore, market
incentives for CSR are seriously threatened.
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Carmen ValorEmail: |
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Thomas Maak 《Journal of Business Ethics》2008,82(2):353-368
In the years since Enron corporate social responsibility, or “CSR,” has become a ubiquitous phenomenon in both research and
business practice. CSR is used as an umbrella term to describe much of what is done in terms of ethics-related activities
in firms around the globe to such an extent that some consider it a “tortured concept” (Godfrey and Hatch 2007, Journal of Business Ethics
70, 87–98). Addressing this skepticism, I argue in this article that the focus on CSR is indeed problematic for three main reasons:
(1) the term carries a lot of historical baggage – baggage that is not necessarily conducive to the clarity of the concept;
(2) it is the object of increasing ethical instrumentalism; and (3) given the multiple ethical challenges that corporations
face, and given the fact that the “social” responsibilities of business are but one set of corporate responsibilities, a suitable
term would have to be more inclusive and integrative. I therefore suggests moving instead toward a sound definition of corporate integrity and aim in this article to develop a working definition by fleshing out “7 Cs” of integrity: commitment, conduct, content,
context, consistency, coherence, and continuity. I then discuss how these 7 Cs impact our understanding of CSR or, more broadly,
corporate responsibility in general.
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Thomas MaakEmail: |
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Lilian Soares Outtes Wanderley Rafael Lucian Francisca Farache José Milton de Sousa Filho 《Journal of Business Ethics》2008,82(2):369-378
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become a much-discussed subject in the business world. The Internet has become one
of the main tools for CSR information disclosure, allowing companies to publicise more information less expensively and faster
than ever before. As a result, corporations are increasingly concerned with communicating ethically and responsibly to the
diversity of stakeholders through the web. This paper addresses the main question as whether CSR information disclosure on
corporate websites is influenced by country of origin and/or industry sector. Analysing the websites of 127 corporations from
emerging countries, such as Brazil, Chile, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Thailand and South Africa, it becomes evident
that both country of origin and industry sector have a significant influence over CSR information disclosure on the web (CSRIDOW).
Based on the data studied, country of origin has a stronger influence over CSRIDOW than industry sector.
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José Milton de Sousa FilhoEmail: |
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Daisuke Okamoto 《Journal of Business Ethics》2009,87(1):117-132
As a criterion of a good firm, a lucrative and growing business has been said to be important. Recently, however, high profitability
and high growth potential are insufficient for the criteria, because social influences exerted by recent firms have been extremely
significant. In this paper, high social relationship is added to the list of the criteria. Empirical corporate social performance
versus corporate financial performance (CSP–CFP) relationship studies that consider social relationship are very limited in
Japan, and there are no definite conclusions for the studies in the world, because of scant data and the inappropriate methods,
especially for supporting linear hypothesis which these studies are based on. In this paper, the CSP–CFP relationship is analyzed
by an artificial neural networks model, which can deal with a non-linear relationship, using 10-year follow-up survey data.
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Daisuke OkamotoEmail: |
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Our study investigates differences in CEO turnover between focused and diversified firms to determine whether diversification
strategies are necessarily associated with governance efficiency in family businesses. We find that large family CEO firms
are more likely to engage in corporate diversification than are small non-family CEO firms and their CEOs are seldom replaced.
Large family CEO diversified firms also have lower turnover sensitivity relative to focused firms. The results imply that
the CEOs of diversified firms have entrenched themselves, thereby increasing agency costs within family businesses. However,
we fail to find diversification discounts in family businesses. It is interesting that CEOs tend to diversify their businesses
in order to decrease firm risk. Founding families favor risk-reducing decisions in order to maintain family wealth and prestige;
suggesting that family businesses are more interested in survival than growth. Although family businesses may benefit from
risk reduction, a negative relationship between diversification level and CEO turnover is still evidence of poor corporate
governance. Agency theory may not completely account for the adoption of diversification strategies in family businesses and
corporate diversification may weaken the effectiveness of internal monitoring mechanisms.
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Wen-Hsien TsaiEmail: |
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Boris Holzer 《Journal of Consumer Policy》2007,30(3):281-301
Transnational corporations are often implicated in conflicts over environmental problems and human rights in developing countries.
As a result they become targets of both local and transnational campaigns. Given the lack of resources and influence of local
activists, campaigning groups often turn to consumer audiences abroad to pressurize a certain company or brand. That requires
agenda-setting and “framing” of the issues concerned in order to gain consumers’ attention. Local activists and campaigning
groups use the public sphere to call attention to allegedly dubious corporate policies and practices that lie behind the consumer
goods offered for sale in the Western world. Based on an analysis of the public discourse about the operations of the oil
multinational Royal Dutch/Shell in Nigeria in the year 1995, this paper suggests that once the corporation is framed as a
moral actor, it gets difficult for the corporation to deny its responsibility for human rights—even though the actual influence
of the corporation may be limited.
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Boris HolzerEmail: |
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In this article, we argue that firms in high-margin industries can benefit from founding family influence. Specifically, in
more profitable markets, the influence of the founding family provides an additional corporate governance-monitoring function.
The sample consists of 294 firm-year observations from 98 publicly traded companies headquartered in Sweden, representing
approximately half of all non-financial traded firms. Our support that the effect of family leadership in publicly held firms
should be assessed in relation to the intensity of industry competition.
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Justin B. CraigEmail: |
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Martin Jetter Prof. Dr. Gerhard Satzger Andreas Neus 《Business & Information Systems Engineering》2009,1(1):37-45
This article investigates the influence of information and communication technology (ICT) on business transformation. First,
the general, ICT-driven development lines of globalization and service-orientation are described. Then, an analysis of the
IBM Corporation’s transformation over the past 50 years into a globally integrated, service-oriented company illustrates that
ICT innovations must be dealt with by simultaneous adaptation of business model, organization and corporate culture. For many
companies the ability to manage this change becomes increasingly critical.
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Andreas NeusURL: http://www.ksri.uni-karlsruhe.de |
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Jeff Hearn Marjut Jyrkinen Rebecca Piekkari Eeva Oinonen 《Journal of Business Ethics》2008,83(1):41-54
This article addresses the intersections, even blurrings, of two “homes” and two “aways” – the personal, ‹private’ home and
the corporate ‹public’ ‹away’, and the national home country and corporate base and the transnational work away. Drawing on
40 semi-structured interviews with women and men top and middle managers in seven multinational corporations located in Finland,
we examine the complex relations among transnational managerial work, corporate careers and personal, marriage and family-type
relations, and their differences for women and men managers. This shows the very different personal and social worlds inhabited
by senior women and men managers, and how transnational processes can make those differences even greater.
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Eeva OinonenEmail: |
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The purpose of this study is to determine whether there are cross-cultural differences between Chinese and Canadian business
students with respect to their assessment of the ethicality of various business behaviors. Using a sample of 147 business
students, the results indicate cultural crossvergence; the Chinese (72 students) and Canadians (75 students) exhibit different
ethical attitudes toward questionable business practices at the individual level but not at the corporate level. A social
desirability bias (a tendency to deny socially unacceptable actions and to admit to socially desirable ones) is also found
to be a cross-cultural phenomenon, with the Canadians demonstrating a greater bias than the Chinese. Finally, this bias causes
respondents to increase their assessment of the un-ethicality of questionable business activities.
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Paul DunnEmail: |
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Business students are confronted early in their academic careers with examples of questionable acts and practices related
to individual and corporate integrity. The current study identifies four segments of students with respect to their attitudes
toward unethical behavior and is one of the first known attempts to understand country corruption and its impact on students
of business. Findings from a worldwide survey of over 6,000 business students suggest that corruption does breed corruption
and that business students in more corrupt countries have a greater likelihood than their counterparts in less corrupt countries
to equate legal and ethical. It appears that business students in more corrupt countries expect to use the law as their ethical
gauge in business decisions.
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Victoria L. CrittendenEmail: |
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The job of a leader includes caring for others, or taking responsibility for them. All leaders face the challenge of how to
be both ethical and effective in their work. This paper focuses on the requirement that leaders be present to care for their
followers in times of crisis. It examines the story of Nero playing his fiddle while Rome burns. This is a tale that has been
repeated in various forms by ancient historians and modern writers. The fact that the story gets repeated through the ages
tells us about the kind of care that people expect from their leaders.
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Joanne B. CiullaEmail: |
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This paper discusses the nature of financial business relationships by drawing on the IMP Group’s theory of industrial relationships.
It discusses, among other aspects, the interaction process between banks and their corporate clients, the longevity of relationships,
the interdependence between both sides, and the atmosphere of financial services relationships. The conclusions are thought
to be interesting and useful for the managers of firms and financial services when setting relationship marketing policies
and for academic research on business-to-business services relationships. The field research was done in Portugal and the
case method was used.
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Luís M. de CastroEmail: |
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It has been proposed conceptually that viewers respond to certain advertisements via Empathetic Responses; that is, by feeling with depicted characters. Such deep viewer engagement is especially valued in today’s media environment and is central to dramatic
advertising strategies. Nevertheless, Empathetic Responses remain relatively understudied. We situate Empathetic Responses
within a model comprising high-level personality domains (within the “Big Five”), lower-level personality facets (multidimensional
Trait Empathy), and Perceived Ad Vividness, all as antecedents, as well as consequent Ad-Evoked Feelings. Our findings clarify
the composition and function of Empathetic Responses, adding to both basic and applied understandings.
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Todd A. MooradianEmail: |
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Bjorn Fasterling 《Journal of Business Ethics》2009,88(1):21-34
The processes of economic integration induced by globalization have brought about a certain type of legal practice that challenges
the core values of legal ethics. Law firms seeking to represent the interests of internationally active corporate clients
must embrace and systematically apply concepts of strategic management and planning and install corporate business structures
to sustain competition for lucrative clients. These measures bear a high conflict potential with the core values of legal
ethics. However, we observe in parallel a global consolidation of these core values through an enhanced cooperation of national
professional bodies, the use of international codes, and comparative legal ethics teaching and research. Furthermore, state
regulation of the legal profession is concerned with preserving the core values of legal ethics to conserve the lawyer’s role
in upholding the rule of law. This article defends that legal ethics is adapting to the pressures exerted by “managerial”
approaches to legal practice without this altering core values that underlie legal ethics.
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Bjorn FasterlingEmail: |
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The Appropriateness of the Key Account Management Organization 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Stefan Wengler 《Journal of Business Market Management》2007,1(4):253-272
Key account management programs often lack efficiency and effectiveness, as most key account management organizations are
inadequately designed for specific customer-supplier relationships. In this paper, a decision model based on transaction cost
economics is developed that allows for individualized decision-making on the most appropriate key account management organization:
By defining the transaction cost economics determinants uncertainty and frequency more in-depth companies will become able to refine their decision on the key account management organization alternatives
with respect to the characteristics of their individual customer-supplier relationship.
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Stefan WenglerEmail: |