The Manufacture of Corporate Social Responsibility: Constructing Corporate Sensibility

By J. Roberts. 2003

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Subfields: Information Systems and Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Corporate environmental responsibility and accountability: What chance in vulnerable Bangladesh? (2015, background): “Roberts (2003) suggests that what is needed is for the most vulnerable to be able to enter into dialogue to inform corporations of their effects.”
Critical dialogical accountability: From accounting-based accountability to accountability-based accounting (2019, background): “…notable works that address personal accountability as well as related ethical considerations include Roberts and Scapens (1985), Sinclair (1995), Roberts (1991, 2001, 2003, 2009, 2018), Schweiker (1993), Shearer (2002), McKernan (2012), McKernan and MacLullich (2004). and legitimized (Rached,…”
How Corporate Social Responsibility Engagement Strategy Moderates the CSR–Financial Performance Relationship (2012, neutral): “Second, internal CSR involves activities that can enhance performance related to external CSR, more so than vice versa (Basu and Palazzo, 2008; Carmeli et al., 2007; Cole et al., 2010; Roberts, 2003).”
Narcissism: An Integrative Synthesis and Dominance Complementarity Model (2014, background): “For example, rather than striving for social responsibility, a narcissistic leader may simply use CSR to garner positive attention (Roberts, 2001, 2003; Spence, 2009).”
Updating the Critical Perspective on Corporate Social Responsibility (2009, background): “Like the commodity form, CSR is complex and can legitimately be a variety of contradictory things, e.g. the desire of senior management to clean up the environment, to increase profitability and to ensure basic human rights (Roberts 2003).”
Sustainability in entrepreneurship: A tale of two logics (2011, background): “…impressions among different target audiences through customized reports and advertising as well as through the internal aspects of their business, thereby becoming selective regarding the issues upon which they focus or ignore (Parkinson and Howorth, 2008; Roberts, 2003; Weaver et al., 1999).”
An Analysis of Corporate Social Responsibility at Credit Line: A Narrative Approach (2008, background): “…ethics in business ‘will always be a personal matter and the sensible corporation will always need to be built and grounded in individual conduct’ (Roberts, 2003: 251), then perhaps it should be no surprise that people who had chosen to work for a young, aggressive, US-owned bank that…”
Adoption of corporate social responsibility – incorporating a stakeholder perspective (2006, background): “The pilot project at Nässjö appears to be more advanced than “compromise” and can be characterised as a manifestation of CSR which is akin to “dialogue with the vulnerable” (Roberts, 2003).”
Why would corporations behave in socially responsible ways? an institutional theory of corporate social responsibility (2007, background): “But their rhetoric may diverge from their substantive behavior insofar as they take the issue seriously and dedicate significant resources to it (Roberts, 2003; Weaver, Treviño, & Cochran, 1999).”
The emergence of (2016, background): “…Jones 2010, IFAC 2011a) and necessitates a reporting framework that provides awareness of the collective positive and negative impacts of business activity with a focus on accountability as opposed to long-term performance drivers (Gray et al. 1995, Roberts 2003, Cooper and Owen 2007, Buhr 2007).”
Good Neighbours, Public Relations and Bribes: The Politics and Perceptions of Community Benefit Provision in Renewable Energy Development in the UK (2010, background): “What then are the commonly understood motives or rationales for providing community benefits? The UK governmental toolkit for ‘Delivering Community Benefits from Wind Energy Developments’ suggests three motives: ‘Being a good neighbour’, a gesture that fits with commitments to corporate social respo”
Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting in South Africa (2008, background): “Company rhetoric may differ from substantive behavior with respect to policies and resources devoted to CSR (Roberts, 2003; Weaver, Trevino, & Cochran, 1999).”