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Working with and Working on Corporate Social Responsibility: The Flexibility of a Management Concept

Författare

Summary, in English

Why do some corporations become positioned as socially responsible and others as socially irresponsible? Here, an attempt is made to explore this issue. Within the established management literature it is held that managers do not understand corporate social responsibility (CSR), wherein the focus has been turned towards how corporations can work with CSR inside their organisation as a response to expectations coming from outside. In this book, interviews with managers in one British and one Swedish food retailer are analysed, with the intention to understand how CSR is given meaning in and has become integrated with everyday business practices. The investigation was extended to a study of various stakeholder organisations whose texts published on the Internet were analysed. Based on the outcome of text analyses, it is argued that CSR is not only something which can be worked with inside organisations, but is also worked on, within and between organisations, where various meanings of CSR are constructed. The purpose is to open up the complexity of CSR, suggesting that CSR as a management concept is desired by stakeholders to be flexible rather than fixed.

Publiceringsår

2008

Språk

Engelska

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Lund Studies in Economics and Management

Volym

103

Dokumenttyp

Doktorsavhandling

Förlag

Lund Institute of Econonomic Research

Ämne

  • Business Administration

Nyckelord

  • management concept
  • Corporate social responsibility
  • food retailing
  • critical discourse analysis

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0284-5075
  • ISBN: 13 978-91-85113-28-6
  • ISBN: 10 91-85113-28-X

Försvarsdatum

26 september 2008

Försvarstid

13:00

Försvarsplats

EC3:207 Holger Crafoords Ekonomicentrum

Opponent

  • Andrew Crane (Professor)