The corporation as a political actor – European and North American perspectives

Rasche, Andreas

doi:10.1016/j.emj.2014.08.001

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“…State reform constitutes one of the most formidable problems in the European Union, with EU, national and organizational-institutional logics intervening. Three topics associated with state reform may inform future research in a distinctly European context (Rasche, 2015), in which advanced liberal democracies have developed, over time, generous welfare states and, for a variety of reasons, are now being pushed to reconfigure them. Three topics can be considered as deserving special attention: the conflict between institutional logics at different levels of analysis, the persistent paradoxes and dialectics of change, and the process of change.…”

Section: Reforms Vicious Circles and European Organization Theorymentioning

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Reforming the state: Understanding the vicious circles of reform

Cunha

Tsoukas

2015

European Management Journal

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Section: Reforms Vicious Circles and European Organization Theorymentioning

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Reforming the state: Understanding the vicious circles of reform

Cunha

Tsoukas

2015

European Management Journal

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“…; Liedong et al . ; Rajwani and Liedong ; Rasche ; Scherer and Palazzo ). The review paper by Frynas and Stephens () is an important contribution to the debate.…”

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“…In the past decade, the political dimension of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been studied intensively. Various theoretical perspectives and numerous empirical studies have been published (for reviews, see Frynas and Stephens ; Rasche ; Scherer et al . ).…”

Section: Introduction: the Emergence Of Political Corporate Social Rementioning

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Theory Assessment and Agenda Setting in Political CSR: A Critical Theory Perspective

Scherer

2017

Int J Management Reviews

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Frynas and Stephens (Political corporate social responsibility: reviewing theories and setting new agendas. International Journal of Management Reviews, 17, pp. 483-509, 2015) reviewed the literature on political corporate social responsibility (CSR). They described existing trends and suggested an agenda for future research. They attempted to develop 'a more inclusive pluralist research agenda in political CSR, which can integrate different perspectives on political CSR in order to account for different phenomena, including global governance changes at macro level, instrumental concerns at organizational level or cognitive dimensions at individual level, in both descriptive and normative terms'. This was an ambitious endeavour, given the rapid growth of the literature and the extensive heterogeneity of the field. There is much to like in Frynas and Stephens' paper, as it spans a broad range of perspectives and links together discrete research topics. In the present review, however, the author focuses on a number of critical aspects in their argument. Frynas and Stephens failed to define core concepts, to reveal their normative stance on CSR and their paradigmatic position, or to address the inherent conflict of values in political CSR. And they were too optimistic about the possibilities and benefits of 'integration'. The author suspects that their approach, when adopted in practice, will impede rather than promote social welfare. This paper starts with a brief summary of the field and continues by emphasizing critical issues in Frynas and Stephens' analysis. It concludes with an alternative agenda for research in political CSR.

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“…Indeed, CSR is widely considered as “a form of self‐regulation to contribute to [societal] welfare” (Moon, , p. 298). In short, the literature largely emphasizes voluntarism (e.g., Brammer, Jackson, & Matten, ), a focus retained in the emerging political CSR literature (Rasche, ; also Whelan, ). Conceptualizations of CSR as inherently discretionary are congruent with a wider preference for a political dispensation in which state power is to be curtailed (see “self‐regulation,” below).…”

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“…Lobbying has been beyond the scope of this political literature stream (e.g., Palazzo & Scherer's, , p. 581, “mere lobbyism”). Recent work by Rasche () starts to bring together the literature on CPA (which he identifies as mainly North American) and political CSR (characterized as predominantly European).…”

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Lobbying and the responsible firm: Agenda‐setting for a freshly conceptualized field

Anastasiadis

Moon

Humphreys

2018

Business Ethics: A Eur Rev

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“Responsible lobbying” is an increasingly salient topic within business and management. We make a contribution to the literature on “responsible lobbying” in three ways. First, we provide novel definitions and, thereby, make a clear distinction between lobbying and corporate political activity. We then define responsible lobbying with respect to its content, process, organization, and environment, resulting in a typology of responsible lobbying, a conceptual model that informs the rest of the paper. Second, the paper provides a thematic overview of the current literature underpinning lobbying and the responsible firm, and the underlying paradigms informing this literature. Third, the paper makes specific suggestions for a future research agenda, ending with a consideration of methodological implications of such research.

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The corporation as a political actor – European and North American perspectives

Cited by 55 publications

References 38 publications

Reforming the state: Understanding the vicious circles of reform

Reforming the state: Understanding the vicious circles of reform

Theory Assessment and Agenda Setting in Political CSR: A Critical Theory Perspective

Lobbying and the responsible firm: Agenda‐setting for a freshly conceptualized field

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