Dealing With Uncertainties When Governing CSR Policies |
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Authors: | Jan Lepoutre Nikolay A Dentchev Aimé Heene |
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Institution: | (1) Management and Entrepreneurship, UGent, Hoveniersberg 24, Gent, B-9000, Belgium |
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Abstract: | As corporate social responsibility involves a voluntary business endeavour to address social and environmental issues beyond
legal compliance, governments cannot fall back on hierarchical command-and-control policies to support it. As such, it is
complementary with the increasing popularity of public policies known as New Governance policies, where the government is
engaged in a horizontal inter-organizational network of societal actors and where public policy is both formed and executed
by the interacting and voluntary efforts from a multitude of stakeholders. However, such policies are known to generate substantive
uncertainty about the content of CSR and its related issues, strategic uncertainty regarding the behavior of the actors involved
and institutional uncertainty related to the interaction process involved in the institutional change. We explore New Governance
policy instruments to address these uncertainties in the context CSR and discuss the experiences with these methods in the
European Union.
Jan Lepoutre is a Ph.D. candidate in Applied Economics at Ghent University, Belgium. In his dissertation, he focuses on the
competences associated with small business social responsibility and networks as governmental means to build competences among
small businesses.
Nikolay A. Dentchev is an independent research fellow at Ghent University, Belgium, and a project coordinator at the corporate
venturing department of Fortis Group (Fortis Venturing). He holds a Ph.D. in business economics from Ghent University. His
current research is related to entrepreneurship, instrumental stakeholder theory, and management challenges of corporate social
responsibility.
Aimé Heene is a professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at Ghent University, Belgium. He teaches
strategic management for private and public organizations and currently focuses his research on (competencebased) management
in public and social profit organizations. |
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Keywords: | corporate social responsibility uncertainty New Governance public policy policy instruments |
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