Recognizing Business Ethics: Practical and Ethical Challenges in Awarding Prizes for Good Corporate Behaviour

Norman, Wayne; Roux, C.; Bélanger, Philippe

doi:10.1007/s10551-008-9846-5

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“…In the business world, awards and prizes for sustainable development are offered, including awards for reports, projects and initiatives focusing on the corporate social responsibility or social entrepreneurship, as well as 'intrapreneurship', internal activities initiated by employees (Norman et al 2009). In higher education institutions, the incubators of innovations for society, similar awards are rare.…”

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How to Assess Transformative Performance towards Sustainable Development in Higher Education Institutions

Mader

2012

Journal of Education for Sustainable Development

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This article highlights the role of sustainability appraisal for Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). Traditional HEI appraisal systems lack a way to assess the integration of sustainability principles refl ecting societal needs with the consequences of research, education and management of HEIs. Two appraisal systems are discussed. The Austrian Sustainability Award is a fi rst national attempt for sustainability appraisal for HEIs. The Graz Model for Integrative Development provides a tool for analysing the involvement of people (staff, students as well as society) in transformative processes in higher education. Using the fi ve principles of the Graz Model in sustainability appraisal overcomes the problem of not recognising the social impact of a HEI in its assessment. The model looks at how society is involved and its needs refl ected in an institution's research, management and outreach. Results of this paper

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How to Assess Transformative Performance towards Sustainable Development in Higher Education Institutions

Mader

2012

Journal of Education for Sustainable Development

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“…The production of rankings is a complex enterprise that involves a technical modality of representation, a social modality of evaluation of relative merit, and a political modality of control. As Norman, Roux, and Bélanger (2009) detail, entrepreneurs must resolve a number of epistemic and normative issues to create a ranking, including determining the underlying measurement dimensions, criteria for inclusion, approach to data, and modes of publication. Yet, we know very little about the rationale behind the selection of dimensions of performance, the procedures for data collection and aggregation, and the logic behind the presentation of rankings (e.g., Fortune ’s “Most Admired All-Star” list includes 50 firms, while Forbes’s “The World’s Most Innovative Companies” list comprises 100).…”

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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Organizational Rankings: A Multidisciplinary Review of the Literature and Directions for Future Research

Rindova

Martins²,

Srinivas

et al. 2017

Journal of Management

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A review of the literature on organizational rankings across management, sociology, education, and law reveals three perspectives on these complex evaluations-rankings are seen as a form of information intermediation, as comparative orderings, or as a means for surveillance and control. The information intermediation perspective views rankings as information products that address information asymmetries between the ranked organizations and their stakeholders; the comparative orderings perspective views them as representations of organizational status and reputation; and the surveillance and control perspective emphasizes their disciplining power that subjects ranked organizations to political and economic interests. For each perspective, we identify core contributions as well as additional questions that extend the current body of research. We also identify a new perspective-rankings entrepreneurship-which has been overlooked to date but presents significant opportunities to extend our understanding of the production and consumption of rankings.

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“…Such awards serve to both reward and incentivize firms to become more dedicated to CSR (Fombrun, 2007; Yoo & Pae, 2016). Winning prestigious CSR awards represents external recognition of excellence in the social and/or environmental domain, which could immediately elevate the social reputation and status of the award-winning firms (Norman et al, 2009). More importantly, CSR awards can function as a signal of legitimacy, which influences what a firm’s key stakeholders, such as its investors (Hawn et al, 2018; Jones & Murrell, 2001), employees (Bernardi et al, 2006; Dineen & Allen, 2016), and customers (Gemser et al, 2008), deem as comparable, desirable, and appropriate in their evaluation of firms and their actions.…”

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Keeping Up With the Joneses: Role of CSR Awards in Incentivizing Non-Winners’ CSR

Yin

Shi

et al. 2020

Business & Society

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We attempt to provide a novel antecedent of corporate social responsibility (CSR) by focusing on the role of CSR awards. Specifically, we investigate how competitors’ winning CSR awards incentivize non-winning firms’ CSR as a competitive catch-up. Using a difference-in-differences research design, we find that non-winners improve their CSR after their competitors have won CSR awards. Furthermore, based on the awareness-motivation-capability (AMC) framework from the competitive dynamics literature, we find that the media visibility of award winners, the performance gap of non-winners with award winners, and the prior CSR of non-winners strengthen the CSR competitive catch-up behaviors. Findings from this study contribute to the CSR research by highlighting the spillover effect of CSR awards as a meaningful event in incentivizing non-winning firms’ CSR and extending the AMC framework to explain the contingency factors of competitive catch-up in the context of CSR research.

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Recognizing Business Ethics: Practical and Ethical Challenges in Awarding Prizes for Good Corporate Behaviour

Abstract: business ethics, corporate citizenship, prizes, rankings, social and ethical auditing and reporting,

Cited by 8 publications

References 5 publications

How to Assess Transformative Performance towards Sustainable Development in Higher Education Institutions

How to Assess Transformative Performance towards Sustainable Development in Higher Education Institutions

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Organizational Rankings: A Multidisciplinary Review of the Literature and Directions for Future Research

Keeping Up With the Joneses: Role of CSR Awards in Incentivizing Non-Winners’ CSR

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