Corporate Responsibility and Identity: from a Stakeholder to an Awareness Approach

Heikkurinen, Pasi; Ketola, Tarja

doi:10.1002/bse.744

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“…This approach leads to a new business philosophy that can be contextualized into a coordination game schema, where reputation permeates every action or decision and, as a final outcome, the results are consistent with the theory of multiple intelligences, allowing the development of a new skill that can be called reputational intelligence. As a result, this manuscript provides an original multidisciplinary analysis of reputational management by relating well-known theoretical results from game theory to organizational realities, considering that an organization can adopt different identities when facing sustainability issues [25] and favoring the appearance of new approaches [26] as well as the reconsideration of the traditional ones [27]. This is done in order to rethink and advance the existing academic knowledge [28][29][30], taking into account that there is no need for theories of organizations to be exact or general in order to become helpful [31].…”

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confidence: 99%

Reputation, Game Theory and Entrepreneurial Sustainability

2016

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Abstract:This manuscript provides a novel approach to reputational management as a driver of entrepreneurial sustainability, using game theory to integrate three dimensions of reputation. First, if the entrepreneur perceives reputation as a risk source, the analysis is framed as a prisoner's dilemma schema that is solved by protecting against reputational threats from entrepreneurial sustainability. Second, if the entrepreneur perceives reputation as a competitive advantage, the analysis is framed as an innovator's dilemma that is solved by getting reputational opportunities from entrepreneurial sustainability. Third, if reputation is perceived as a strategic asset, the analysis is framed as a coordination game schema that results in the development of a reputational intelligence skill that has the potential to become crucial for success in entrepreneurial sustainability. Consequently, this manuscript provides an original multidisciplinary analysis of reputational management by relating well-known theoretical results from game theory to organizational realities.

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confidence: 99%

Reputation, Game Theory and Entrepreneurial Sustainability

2016

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“…The stakeholder approach to business and society relationships implies that consumers, NGOs and other stakeholders adopt a watchdog role to contain corporate irresponsibility that puts their interests at risk (Heikkurinen and Ketola, 2012). In order to fulfil this role and to serve as a counterweight to corporate power, stakeholders urge corporations and their associated supply chains to be transparent (e.g., Dingwerth and Eichinger, 2010;Fernandez-Feijoo et al, 2014;Garcia-Sanchez et al, 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Despite their central role in the supply chain, focal companies are not entirely free to do whatever they wish, as active stakeholders (usually customers, state representatives and nongovernmental organisations) act as watchdogs when their stakes are at issue (Freeman et al, 2010;Heikkurinen and Ketola, 2012). But for the watchdog mechanism to work, a degree of transparency is needed.…”

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Transparency fallacy

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Heikkurinen

2018

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Purpose The focus of the enquiry is on the research question of how stakeholder claims for transparency work as a means to support responsibility in the international supply chain.Design/methodology/approach This theoretical study analyses the relationship between stakeholder claims for corporate transparency and responsible business in the global context, and develops a conceptual model for further theoretical and empirical work. FindingsThe study finds that the call for corporate transparency is insufficient as a means to increase responsibility within international supply chains. The erroneous belief that stakeholder claims for transparency will lead to responsible behaviour, is identified as the Ôtransparency fallacyÕ. The fallacy emerges from the denial of opacity in organisations and the blindness to the conditions of international supply chains (including complexity, distance, and resistance) that work against attempts to increase transparency. Research limitations/implicationsAcknowledging the limits of the transparency mechanism in both management theory and practice is necessary in order to advance responsible business in the international arena. Being conceptual in nature, the generic limitations of the type of research apply.Practical implications While acknowledging opacity, corporate managers and stakeholders should focus on changing the supply chain conditions to support responsible behaviour. This includes reducing complexity, distance, and resistance in the supply network.Originality/value This study contests the commonly assumed link between corporate transparency and responsibility, and sheds light on the limits and unintended consequences of stakeholder attempts to impose transparency on business organisations.

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“…The susceptibility toward organizations' environment has essentially ethical dimensions, as well. Heikkurinen and Ketola (2012) raised the question of "how companies can admit a responsible identity which leads to a desired image and reputation?" and proposed an awareness approach: Instead of trying to manage the complexity of contextual identities as the consequence of "outsourced ethics," companies can diminish the complexity by approving the personification of the company as the consequence of "insourced ethics."…”

Section: Csr and Sa Linkagementioning

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Public Policy Influences on Academia in the European Union

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The aim of this research is to examine the public policy influences on academic investigations that contain a substantial convergence among human resource management-industrial relations and corporate social responsibility-stakeholder approach by means of using bibliometric and content analyses of relevant publications in the Scopus and ScienceDirect databases. Totally, 160 publications were subject to bibliometric, cluster, and summative content analyses. In this context, this study claims that public policy in the EU influences academic investigations and scholars. The investigation draws attention to the importance of active participation of different public institutions and key stakeholders (e.g., trade unions, works councils, academic associations) that prepare a basis for collaboration, solidarity, and communication for strengthening EU social model, social dialogue, collective bargaining, and the protection of social rights. The research findings illuminate the fact that European public policies have significant effects on shaping and encouraging investigations that are considered within the scope of IR-HRM and CSR-SA. One of the most crucial recommendations of this study is that the investigations which are out of this framework can be considered quite idealistic. Therefore, researchers may attempt to publish more scientific investigations in frame of IR-HRM and CSR-SA to enhance the comprehensiveness and depth of these two clusters.

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Corporate Responsibility and Identity: from a Stakeholder to an Awareness Approach

Cited by 54 publications

References 69 publications

Reputation, Game Theory and Entrepreneurial Sustainability

Reputation, Game Theory and Entrepreneurial Sustainability

Transparency fallacy

Public Policy Influences on Academia in the European Union

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