Constructing gender identity through masculinity in CSR reports: The South Korean case

Lee, Jin Young; Parpart, Jane L.

doi:10.1111/beer.12191

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“…Another avenue to extend this research would be to investigate if masculinity is connected to the observed voluntarism. The prevailing hegemonic masculinity of business (Griffin, 2013;Lee & Parpart, 2018) may play a role for both the conventional marginalisation of social groups outside of a hegemonic power structure, and for the marginalising of criticism that I observe. By giving evidence of justification fallacies, I want to open up for the possibility that companies frequently fail in justifying their activities, and inspire research to investigate corporate acts of justification.…”

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“…Second, there is research providing direction on the impact disclosure has on legitimacy (Cormier & Magnan, 2015) and on financial performance (Lawal, May, & Stahl, 2017). Another dimension of disclosure is the focus on specific issues, for example, environment (Delgado-Márquez, Pedauga, & Cordón-Pozo, 2017), gender-equality issues (Lee & Parpart, 2018), or data (Schultz & Seele, 2020). My present interest lies in disclosure of one broad issue, CSR activities.…”

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CSR politics of non‐recognition: Justification fallacies marginalising criticism, society, and environment

Norberg

2020

Business Ethics: A Eur Rev

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Business is frequently criticized for not taking social and environmental responsibility. Large companies respond with CSR activities and some also with formulating justifications for their actions. This could indicate that business opens up to the criticism. I do, however, not observe such openness in the current study, but how companies use “CSR justifications” to fend off criticism. While companies use justifications as tool for creating legitimacy, I distinguish five justification fallacies. These failures in dealing with criticism cause a marginalisation of criticism, society, and environment. The fallacies found are neglecting criticism, shareholder primacy, organisation‐centricity, conflict avoidance, and progressivism. I contribute to the use of Habermasian ethics in the business ethics literature by showing how CSR justifications could play a part in a rational discourse. The concept justification fallacy, and the five fallacies can provide a framework for analysing corporate rhetoric more generally. Managers have fundamental difficulties in handling ethics and do not reflect on their reasons for working with CSR. They should be more careful when formulating justifications. In our situation of increasing affective polarisation, business needs to be more constructive than merely to marginalise criticism.

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CSR politics of non‐recognition: Justification fallacies marginalising criticism, society, and environment

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2020

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“…Another study on the sustainability reports of selected Fortune 500 companies reports that “discourses on women and gender carry the traditional patriarchal notions and women were presented as a distressed species and companies tried to portray themselves as the saviors of women” (Hossain et al , 2017a, p. 262). Exploring the inherently embedded meaning of texts in the CSR reports of 15 Korean Multinational Enterprise, Lee and Parpart (2018) note that women’s voices are silenced and marginalized in the CSR reports. Similarly, Ben-Amar et al (2020) report that Canadian corporations strategically use “merit” and “diversity” to obfuscate the exact representation of women on the corporate board.…”

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Gender-related discourses in corporate annual reports: an exploratory study on the Bangladeshi companies

Hossain

Alam

Mazumder

et al. 2021

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore the gender-related discourses in the annual reports of the listed companies in Bangladesh. Design/methodology/approach To fulfill this objective, a sociological discourse analysis (SDA) of the gender-related texts in the annual reports of Bangladeshi companies (listed in the Dhaka Stock Exchange) was conducted. Sandberg and Holmlund’s (2015) organizational impression management tactics (description, praise, admission, defense and writing styles) was applied as the analytical framework of SDA. The findings of the study were interpreted from a triangulation of two different theories: legitimacy theory and impression management theory. Findings The study suggests that the companies in Bangladesh are disclosing gender-related information to a limited extent. They provide some information in relation to equal opportunities, business activities targeted to women and corporate contribution to women’s welfare. Most of these gender-related discourses are rhetorical in nature. The companies used various impression management tactics such as description, praise, positive writing style, vague writing style and emotional writing style. Research limitations/implications This study is exploratory in nature and focuses on cross-sectional data. Thus, it does not identify the trend of corporate gender reporting over the years. Practical implications At the policy level, the findings revealed a need for reporting guidelines for gender narratives. Although there is a global gender reporting guideline as proposed under global reporting initiative, there is no local guideline in Bangladesh. Our findings suggest that in the absence of proper directives, companies presented facts and figures rhetorically and qualitatively. Social implications Our findings provide valuable insights for the companies in assisting the Government of Bangladesh to deal with the prevailing gender inequality and achieved gender-related sustainable development goals. It is argued that the government should take more interest in corporate social responsibility activities (such as promoting gender equality) and introduce legislation and guidelines for social accounting. Originality/value This is one of the very few studies that illustrate the corporate gender reporting of a developing economy – Bangladesh. To make a unique contribution to corporate gender disclosure, the study has drawn its analysis from a triangulation of the impression management and the legitimacy perspectives. Also, the use of SDA for annual report analysis has informed the readers about “how” the corporate narratives are presented in the annual reports rather than “what” issues are disclosed as commonly done in content analysis.

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“…On one hand, these programmes represent awareness of women’s systemic oppression and exploitation; on the other, they reflect women as human capital, a resource for international agencies, governments and corporations (Prügl, 2015; Tornhill, 2019). Women are simultaneously positioned as victims and saviours, with implications for how men are situated in development (Cornwall et al, 2011) and corporate responsibility narratives (Lee and Parpart, 2018). Who is included in worker empowerment programmes, and how they are portrayed, reproduces the persistent, damaging norms that inflect the production of ‘correct’ roles and behaviours of women and men within systems of differentiation that uphold the hegemony of men.…”

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The hegemony of men in global value chains: Why it matters for labour governance

2020

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Substandard labour practices continue to be observed in global value chains (GVCs), even where there are strong legal frameworks and in those that engage with ethical accreditation schemes. We argue that this indicates a slow rate of progressive change in GVC labour governance, that is due in part to the lack of attention paid to the interplay of men, masculinities and GVC operation. We offer a reading of Jeff Hearn’s ‘hegemony of men’ framework as a means of showing and deconstructing men’s power within GVC labour standards and welfare programmes, to understand how particular forms of masculinity are reproduced to detrimental effect. Our critical review of the GVC literature emphasises the need to recognise how the social category of ‘men’ has both material and discursive effects on GVCs. We then present a research agenda that emphasises how an intersectional lens on the hegemony of men can surface how complexities of race, class, caste and other experiences of working in GVCs interact with dominant forms of masculinity. This would significantly enhance our understanding of how governance mechanisms might be better designed and operationalised in GVCs, for the betterment of all.

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Constructing gender identity through masculinity in CSR reports: The South Korean case

Cited by 15 publications

References 72 publications

CSR politics of non‐recognition: Justification fallacies marginalising criticism, society, and environment

CSR politics of non‐recognition: Justification fallacies marginalising criticism, society, and environment

Gender-related discourses in corporate annual reports: an exploratory study on the Bangladeshi companies

The hegemony of men in global value chains: Why it matters for labour governance

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