Jennifer Mize Smith

TL;DR: The authors found that employees are likely to be influenced by the discourse and activities of their colleagues, and that the discourse is increasingly present in the workplace and that one's identity is often shaped by work.

TL;DR: This paper found that employees viewed charitableness as an integral part of the organization's overall value system and used charitable values to make sense of other company practices, even those outside the conventional notions of corporate philanthropy.

TL;DR: This article examined the ways in which employees made sense of their employer's charitableness and found that employees' value-based social construction of corporate giving may be at odds with the current corporate shift toward strategic philanthropy suggesting that all good works are not created equal and that corporate attempts to rationalize philanthropy may be met with uncertainty and resistance.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored how identification with the cause or the recipients of support affects the success of non-profit organizations (NPOs) in achieving desired outcomes by fostering organizational identification.

TL;DR: This paper adopted a dialectical approach to explore the discourse of breast cancer survivors as they talked about and made sense of corporate involvement in promoting and sustaining breast cancer, and found that corporate involvement was a major factor in breast cancer survival.