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Local or Global: Analyzing the Internationalization of Social Responsibility of Corporate Foundations
Ceren Altuntaş,Duygu Turker +1 more
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In this article, the authors explore the link between globalization/adaptation debate and corporate foundation activity within a small subset of such foundations and analyze the corporate social responsibility (CSR) approaches of this sample of corporate-owned foundations using the tri-dimensional CSR research model of Arthaud-Day (2005) to articulate the perspective, content and strategic orientations of the companies.Abstract:
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the link between the globalization/adaptation debate and corporate foundation activity within a small subset of such foundations. In the light of this debate, the study analyzes the corporate social responsibility (CSR) approaches of this sample of corporate-owned foundations using the tri-dimensional CSR research model of Arthaud-Day (2005) to articulate the perspective, content and strategic orientations of the companies. Design/methodology/approach – The study selects three different corporate foundations based on internationalization scale and field of activities. A content analysis methodology is applied to the data collected from the official web sites of 24 corporate foundations. Findings – The analysis results show a general compatibility between the subsidiaries and the main branches of the corporate foundations, at least on the conceptual level. However, the practices of CSR activities, targeted stakeholders or content domains differ at the opera...read more
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The iron cage revisited: Institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields (Chinese Translation)
Paul DiMaggio,Walter W. Powell +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that rational actors make their organizations increasingly similar as they try to change them, and describe three isomorphic processes-coercive, mimetic, and normative.
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How global is international CSR research? Insights and recommendations from a systematic review
TL;DR: The authors systematically reviewed 494 articles in 31 journals over a 31-year period and found that international CSR research is far from being global and still emerging in ‘mainstream’ management/business.
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Multinational Enterprise Strategies for Addressing Sustainability: the Need for Consolidation
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the growing number of publications on multinational enterprise management of sustainability issues and found that although the literature is tending towards growing acceptance about sustainability and its challenges most researchers have focused on corporate social responsibility and investigate their own niche problem, industry, and country using their own chosen theory and do not consider the need for consolidation and integration of social, environmental and economic performance.
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Implementation of sustainable development goals: The role for business academics:
TL;DR: Achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 is a Grand Challenge, especially for business academics who have a responsibility to work with businesses regarding the SDGs.
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Economic impact of corporate foundations: An event analysis approach
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the relationship between the creation of a corporate foundation and the corporation's stock market value and found that the foundation's behavior and its communication influenced the stock market.
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The iron cage revisited institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields
Paul DiMaggio,Walter W. Powell +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that rational actors make their organizations increasingly similar as they try to change them, and describe three isomorphic processes-coercive, mimetic, and normative.
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Content analysis: an introduction to its methodology
TL;DR: History Conceptual Foundations Uses and Kinds of Inference The Logic of Content Analysis Designs Unitizing Sampling Recording Data Languages Constructs for Inference Analytical Techniques The Use of Computers Reliability Validity A Practical Guide
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Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony
John W. Meyer,Brian Rowan +1 more
TL;DR: Many formal organizational structures arise as reflections of rationalized institutional rules as discussed by the authors, and the elaboration of such rules in modern states and societies accounts in part for the expansion and i...
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Toward a Theory of Stakeholder Identification and Salience: Defining the Principle of who and What Really Counts
TL;DR: In this paper, a theory of stakeholder identification and saliency based on stakeholders possessing one or more of three relationship attributes (power, legitimacy, and urgency) is proposed, and a typology of stakeholders, propositions concerning their saliency to managers of the firm, and research and management implications.
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Strategy and society: the link between competitive advantage and corporate social responsibility.
Michael E. Porter,Mark R. Kramer +1 more
TL;DR: A fundamentally new way is proposed to look at the relationship between business and society that does not treat corporate growth and social welfare as a zero-sum game and introduces a framework that individual companies can use to identify the social consequences of their actions.