Boundaries Between Business and Politics: A Study on the Division of Moral Labor

Mäkinen, Jukka; Kasanen, Eero

doi:10.1007/s10551-014-2419-x

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“…It is conceptually intertwined with, or indistinguishable from, a variety of related research areas, including business ethics, stakeholder management, corporate citizenship, corporate sustainability, environmental responsibility, corporate social performance, corporate community involvement, and political CSR (Baron, 2001;Carroll, 2015;Lockett, Moon, & Visser, 2006;Mäkinen & Kasanen, 2016;Shackelford, Fort, & Charoen, 2016;Taneja, Taneja, & Gupta, 2011;Van Marrewijk, 2003). The survivability of CSR in society is a function of the willingness and ability of its companies to continue to adapt and execute CSR strategies (Carroll, 2015).…”

Section: Corporate Social Responsibilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Recruiting millennials: Exploring the impact of CSR involvement and pay signaling on organizational attractiveness

Waples

Brachle

2019

Corp Soc Responsibility Env

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Modern organizations must consider corporate social responsibility (CSR) and its implications. CSR involvement carries many potential benefits, including opportunities to promote stakeholder engagement with the organization, particularly among young people (i.e., millennials) in the emergent workforce. Collectively, millennials are often described as both socially active and self‐centered. These seemingly antithetical motives complicate the execution of optimal recruitment practice. This empirical study examined the impact of CSR activity and relative pay level signals on organizational attractiveness. Participants who were seeking or soon to be seeking employment in the United States responded to a hypothetical company profile. Confirming expectations, results revealed an effect of CSR information on organizational attractiveness, wherein notification of CSR involvement enhanced attractiveness. Pay level and CSR notification did not significantly interact, indicating that the effects of CSR on attractiveness are not moderated by information about pay levels. The implications of the results and future research recommendations are discussed.

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Section: Corporate Social Responsibilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Recruiting millennials: Exploring the impact of CSR involvement and pay signaling on organizational attractiveness

Waples

Brachle

2019

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“…Unfreezing in unitary polities therefore hinges on the efforts of external constituents to influence organizational elites to consider this new logic. External constituents include regulators (Mäkinen & Kasanen, 2016), rating agencies (Chatterji, Durand, Levine, & Touboul, 2016), mass media (Carberry & King, 2012;Zavyalova, Pfarrer, Reger, & Shapiro, 2012), professionals (DiBenigno & Kellogg, 2014, and social movement activists (de Bakker, den Hond, King, & Weber, 2013).…”

Section: Unfreezing In Unitary Politiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Institutional Complexity and Organizational Change: An Open Polity Perspective

Waeger

Weber²

2019

AMR

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Changing environments often expose organizations to institutional logics that are at odds with other logics that were imprinted into the organizations in the past, giving rise to conflict. We specifically propose that prior institutional environments imprint organizational coalitions and governance systems-the organization's polity-and that these polity imprints explain variance in organizational change processes in response to new logics. We argue that such polity imprints shape how different organizational groups construe their conflicting interests in relation to new logics, how they mobilize for and against changes emanating from these logics, and how the outcomes of group conflict become stabilized. To develop this argument, we identify four ideal types of organizational polities, based on differences in the centralization of authority and the unity of organizational elites. Each ideal type gives rise to a characteristic pattern of how organizations process the advent of new logics. Our analysis demonstrates the utility of conceptualizing organizations as open polities-political entities that interact with their external environment-and the importance of taking historically imprinted political features of organizations into account in studies of organizational responses to institutional complexity.

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“…In some of the most extreme variants of the paternalist experience, the firm became fused with the geographical community in which it was embedded. Brede Klaedefabrik north of Copenhagen, Denmark, the Stumm family in the Saar region, Germany, Philips in Eindhoven, Netherlands, Schneider in Le Creusot, France, the tire manufacturer, Michelin in the city of Clermont-Ferrand, France, and Gustaf Adolf Serlachius Company in Mänttä, Finland are all typical examples of how paternal employers across Europe took on social and political responsibilities towards the local community by creating sometimes entire factory towns (De Bry 1980;Gueslin 1993;Kalb 1997;Mäkinen and Kasanen 2014;Mäkinen and Kourula 2012;Nielsen 1994;Van Dülmen 1989).…”

Section: The Paternalist Reaction and Its Ideological Frame: Authoritmentioning

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Contextualizing Corporate Political Responsibilities: Neoliberal CSR in Historical Perspective

2015

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This article provides a historical contextualization of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and its political role. CSR, we propose, is one form of businesssociety interactions reflecting a unique ideological framing. To make that argument, we compare contemporary CSR with two historical ideal-types. We explore in turn paternalism in nineteenth century Europe and managerial trusteeship in early twentieth century US. We outline how the political responsibilities of business were constructed, negotiated, and practiced in both cases. This historical contextualization shows that the frontier between economy and polity has always been blurry and shifting and that firms have played a political role for a very long time. It also allows us to show how the nature, extent, and impact of that political role changed through history and coevolved in particular with shifts in dominant ideologies. Globalization, in that context, is not the driver of the political role of the firm but a moderating phenomenon contributing significantly to the dynamics of this shift. The comparison between paternalism, trusteeship, and contemporary CSR points to what can be seen as functional equivalents-alternative patterns of business-society interactions that each correspond, historically, to unique and distinct ideological frames. We conclude by drawing implications for future theorizing on (political) CSR and stakeholder democracy.

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Boundaries Between Business and Politics: A Study on the Division of Moral Labor

Cited by 42 publications

References 42 publications

Recruiting millennials: Exploring the impact of CSR involvement and pay signaling on organizational attractiveness

Recruiting millennials: Exploring the impact of CSR involvement and pay signaling on organizational attractiveness

Institutional Complexity and Organizational Change: An Open Polity Perspective

Contextualizing Corporate Political Responsibilities: Neoliberal CSR in Historical Perspective

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