Corporate social responsibility – a PR invention?

By Peter Frankental. 2001

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Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management

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In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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2. Khosro S. Jahdi
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In Strategy and Management

1. Meng‐Wen Wu
2. Tim Breitbarth
3. Khosro S. Jahdi
4. A. Hassan
5. A. Sutantoputra
6. Gaye Acikdilli
7. Xavier Font
8. Alexander Douglas

Citations in the corpus

• Corporate social reporting in Irish financial institutions (2004, background): “CSR implies that an organisation is responsible for its wider impact on society (Frankental, 2001).”
• The Role of Corporate Social Responsibility in the Football Business: Towards the Development of a Conceptual Model (2008, background): “It has also been criticized as a modern age branding tool, a ‘‘greenwash’’ of corporate behaviour, boardroom talk, and a public relations invention (Frankental, 2001), However, CSR is no longer a ‘‘fad’’ or an ‘‘extra option’’ but describes a deeper change in looking at organizations and their…”
• Social disclosure rating system for assessing firms' CSR reports (2009, background): “The guidelines have provided benchmarks to measure firms’ attainment on social aspects of CSR (Frankental, 2001).”
• Corporate social responsibility: The disclosure–performance gap (2012, background): “Nonetheless, the meaning of CSR is contested although to aver, as Frankental (2001) does, that because CSR is a vague and intangible term it is effectively without meaning is far-fetched.”
• Corporate social responsibility: a case study of the UK's leading food retailers (2005, background): “That said there seems to be no universally agreed definition and Frankenal (2001)”
• Corporate social responsibility in the banking industry: Motives and financial performance (2013, background): “Finally, greenwashing attempts to enhance the corporate image without significantly changing the business (Frankental, 2001).5 According to Dam et al. (2009), if no clear cost differences are observed between responsible and irresponsible corporations, then these firms are merely greenwashing,…”
• A pathway towards true sustainability: A recognition foundation of sustainable supply chain management (2017, background): “Today’s discourses on sustainability and CSR are “obfuscated” (Prasad & Mills, 2010, p. 231) with questions of corporate reputation, branding, and ultimately profit maximisation (Frankental, 2001).”
• Exploring corporate social responsibility disclosure: the case of Islamic banks (2010, background): “There are a few distinctive key CSR issues which include: corporate governance, environmental and social impact, stakeholder engagement, employees and community relation, social equity, etc. CSR implies that a company is responsible for its wider impact on society (Frankental, 2001).”