International Business and Corporate Wrongdoing: A Review and Research Agenda

Nieri, Federica; Giuliani, Elisa

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-70220-9_3

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“…For this purpose, Giuliani and colleagues 2013 and press freedom, they are less likely to be involved in human rights controversies. Generally, Nieri and Giuliani (2018) suggest that a human rights approach conceptualizing irresponsible business conduct on the basis of an internationally agreed normative framework like the International Bill of Human Rights would be superior to other conceptualizations, as it would provide international companies with less leeway and discretion about what is considered responsible business conduct (see also Giuliani et al, 2016).…”

Section: Ib Responsible Business and Human Rightsmentioning

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“…Waddock 2003). Instead, as pointed out earlier, reference to an internationally agreed normative framework is one of the perceived strengths of BHR, because it leaves less room for corporations to use discretion in the interpretation of their own responsibilities (Nieri and Giuliani, 2018;Giuliani et al, 2016). In practice, however, we must acknowledge that corporations still lack the necessary capabilities to deal with human rights and struggle to make sense of this often too abstract, controversial and political notion in their daily operations (Obara 2017).…”

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“…One area that has yet to receive sufficiently serious consideration in managerial discussions on MNEs concerns the various harmful impacts of their cross-national operations. IB research in particular has shown little interest in conceptualizing, measuring and predicting the conditions that lead MNEs to engage in wrongful conduct resulting in violations of human rights (Nieri and Giuliani, 2018). Yet the grand sustainability challenges we are facing today have not come from nowhere and are arguably connected at least partly to corporate wrongdoing.…”

Section: Anatomy Of Corporate Wrongdoingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…In line with prior research (Fiaschi et al, 2015(Fiaschi et al, , 2017Nieri & Giuliani, 2018;Ruggie, 2008;Wettstein, Giuliani, Santangelo, & Stahl, 2019), The variable "analytical thinking" from LIWC was used to measure analytical language, and the variable "authentic" was used to measure authentic language.…”

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Does involvement in corporate social irresponsibility affect the linguistic features of corporate social responsibility reports?

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Tuan

2019

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Companies publish corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports to inform their stakeholders of their CSR efforts. However, the literature has shown that these reports can be used as a way to offset companies' involvement in corporate social irresponsibility (CSIR). By relying on a cognitive‐linguistic perspective, we investigate whether firms respond to their own irresponsible business conduct by changing their CSR reports' linguistic features and, if so, how. We use a sample of 135 large corporations headquartered in developed countries between 1995 and 2014. An analysis of their CSR reports reveals that the more a firm is involved in irresponsible business conduct, the more likely it is to use narrative (instead of analytical) and deceptive (instead of authentic) language. Moreover, we show that these two trends are particularly evident for highly internationalised firms.

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“…In September 2015, accusations against the German company Volkswagen (VW) and its acceptance of the fraud carried out on more than 11 million vehicles shocked the business world [1]. This scandal generated, among other serious social and economic consequences, a situation of distrust towards the firm, an unprecedented loss of reputation and an immediate and important loss of value for its shareholders [2].…”

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Corporate social irresponsibility: review and conceptual boundaries

Riera

Iborra

2017

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to carry out a review of the academic literature about corporate social irresponsibility (CSIR) highlighting aspects that help us to define socially irresponsible behaviour and its relationship with socially responsible behaviour. Design/methodology/approach Through a Boolean search of studies related to terms of irresponsibility undertaken from 1956 to October 2016, the authors develop a review of the literature focussing on the main perspectives used for defining the term of CSIR. Findings The paper provides a framework of three main dimensions for understanding the differences in the literature that defines CSIR: who defines irresponsible behaviour, an impartial observer or a specific group of stakeholders, whether it is a firm strategy or a punctual action and which is the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and CSIR, continuity vs orthogonal relationship. Originality/value The paper provides and extensive and original review of a key construct, CSIR, and develops some insights about its antecedents and consequences. The authors try to provide light to the contradictory situation where a growing interest in CSR and the increase in voluntary commitments adopted by company leaders incorporating CSR into their strategies are, paradoxically, increasingly associated with CSIR.

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International Business and Corporate Wrongdoing: A Review and Research Agenda

Cited by 20 publications

References 56 publications

International business and human rights: A research agenda

International business and human rights: A research agenda

Does involvement in corporate social irresponsibility affect the linguistic features of corporate social responsibility reports?

Corporate social irresponsibility: review and conceptual boundaries

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