EDF Energy's green CSR claims examined: the follies of global carbon commodity chains

Böhm, Steffen; Brei, Vinícius Andrade; Dabhi, Siddhartha

doi:10.1111/glob.12089

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“…Furthermore, Latapí Agudelo, Johannsdottir, and Davidsdottir [23] identified only twelve publications focused specifically on CSR implementation in the energy sector. The findings from those twelve publications suggest the following: CSR implementation responds to the institutional context where the company operates [40][41][42][43][44]; some energy companies see CSR as a tool for legitimizing their activities [45,46]; company-specific aspects, such as leadership and employees, play a significant role in the effective implementation of CSR [47,48]; each energy company has specific motivations and a unique approach to CSR implementation [49]; and CSR can be used by energy companies as a way for advancing their efforts for becoming sustainable, as well as for transitioning towards renewable sources [50,51].…”

Section: Csr In the Energy Sectormentioning

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The Barriers to Corporate Social Responsibility in the Nordic Energy Sector

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Nordic companies have been at the top of sustainable business rankings since the early 2010s. Some of them are energy companies that have adopted Corporate Social Responsibility to have a positive social impact and become carbon neutral. However, limited literature has analyzed the barriers that Nordic energy companies face while implementing Corporate Social Responsibility. This article aims to identify and categorize the barriers faced by Nordic energy companies. The research is based on empirical data obtained from interviews involving high-level managers from the largest suppliers of energy in the Nordic region. A model is developed, which identifies and categorizes seven barriers at the individual level, seven at the organizational level, and three at the institutional level of analysis. The findings suggest that barriers can be of a direct and indirect nature and can be found across the three levels of analysis. The main contributions of this article are: (1) it identifies and categorizes the barriers that Nordic energy companies face; (2) it defines the barriers as direct and indirect based on their interaction with the company; (3) it presents two models of the barriers and provides empirical evidence that complement the literature; and (4) it contributes to the literature by focusing on the Nordic countries, a region that has received limited attention by scholarly research.

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Section: Csr In the Energy Sectormentioning

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“…Much of this latter tension can be seen in the increasing focus on the emotional management of climate change by firms (Wright & Nyberg, 2015) as well as the competing narratives of climate change adopted both within and across firms (Levy & Spicer, 2013). Some of this production of narratives can be understood as greenwashing (Böhm, Brei, & Dabhi, 2015;Ferguson, Sales de Aguiar, & Fearfull, 2016), but they often have more complex dynamics, with narratives playing important roles reconstituting the identity of firms (Wright & Nyberg, 2015).…”

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Political economies of climate change

Paterson

P-Laberge

2018

WIREs Climate Change

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Political economy approaches across the social sciences provide powerful explanations for important dynamics within the global response to climate change. This article discusses in particular how they provide explanations of the social origins of greenhouse gas emissions, the dominant policy and governance responses to climate change, recurrent political conflicts over these responses, and the patterns of bargaining between states, businesses, and other actors. Underlying these dynamics are a set of contradictions or tensions between the character of capitalism as a social system and the demands of decarbonizing the global economy, specifically: between the imperative for growth that constrains and shapes responses; concerning the power of large transnational businesses and other incumbent interests to block responses; and over the embeddedness of carbon emissions in daily life. The article explores the implications of these contradictions as well as some of the important theoretical debates about the limits of political economy approaches. This article is categorized under: Policy and Governance > Multilevel and Transnational Climate Change Governance Climate Economics > Economics and Climate Change

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“…As innovators, lobbyists and “street‐level bureaucrats” that have to implement policy, business is central to efforts to tackle climate change (Begg, van der Woerd, & Levy, 2005; Bumpus, Tansey, Perez Henriquez, & Okereke, 2015; Newell & Paterson, 2010). Significant bodies of scholarship have focused on firm‐level case studies of corporate strategies (Böhm, Brei, & Dabhi, 2015) as well as sectoral (Okereke & McDaniels, 2012), national (Martus, 2017), and regional (Jones & Levy, 2007) analysis of how businesses have responded to the threat (alongside overarching frameworks for understanding business and climate change (Hoffman, 2007; Hoffman & Woody, 2008; Ihlen, 2009; Kolk & Pinkse, 2005, 2007; Krabbe et al, 2015; Lee, 2012; Levy, 2005; Pinske & Kolk, 2009; Weinhofer & Hoffman, 2010). Political scientists and scholars of International Relations have also sought to understand business attempts to undermine or support public climate policy (Meckling, 2011; Newell & Paterson, 1998; Okereke, Wittneben, & Bowen, 2012), while others have looked at the role corporations play in generating new forms of private climate governance (Lovell, 2014; Pattberg, 2012).…”

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The business of rapid transition

Newell

2020

WIREs Climate Change

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In a context of climate emergency and calls from the IPCC for "transformative systemic change," we need to revisit the role of business in helping to accelerate responses to climate crisis. The scale and depth of the challenges facing business have intensified in ways which force us to refocus our research on questions of urgency and speed, as well as the growing need for new and alternative business models and a fundamental re-balancing of the economy. There is a large literature dealing with business responses to climate change from a range of perspectives and disciplines covering issues such as corporate strategy and public policy engagement. But I argue that the question of the nature and speed of change now required, and whether there are historical and contemporary precedents for accelerated transitions within and beyond business, must assume a more central place in our research. This must be alongside growing efforts to understand how business will adapt to climate chaos. This conclusion implies a closer engagement and cross-fertilization of ideas with scholars of sustainability transitions, for example. Here, there is growing interest in the question of how to accelerate transitions, but where greater attention is required to the role of business actors.

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EDF Energy's green CSR claims examined: the follies of global carbon commodity chains

Cited by 13 publications

References 48 publications

The Barriers to Corporate Social Responsibility in the Nordic Energy Sector

The Barriers to Corporate Social Responsibility in the Nordic Energy Sector

Political economies of climate change

The business of rapid transition

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