Publication type: | Book part |
Type of review: | Editorial review |
Title: | Implementing corporate social responsibility as institutional work : exploring the day-to-day activities of CSR managers in multinational corporations |
Authors: | Wickert, Christopher Risi, David |
DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-030-15407-3_12 |
Published in: | Corporate social responsibility and corporate change : institutional and organizational perspectives |
Editors of the parent work: | Sales, Arnaud |
Page(s): | 243 |
Pages to: | 258 |
Issue Date: | 2019 |
Series: | Ethical Economy |
Series volume: | 57 |
Publisher / Ed. Institution: | Springer |
Publisher / Ed. Institution: | Cham |
ISBN: | 978-3-030-15405-9 978-3-030-15407-3 |
Language: | English |
Subjects: | CSR manager; Institutional theory; Corporate social responsibility (CSR); Multinational corporations (MNCs) |
Subject (DDC): | 658.408: Security management, environmental management |
Abstract: | We investigate the role of CSR managers in the process of institutionalizing CSR at the organizational level. From an institutional theory perspective, CSR managers can be regarded as pursuing institutional work that aims to establish CSR as a taken-for-granted way of doing business within and beyond a single organization. We investigate inductively what the day-to-day practices of CSR-related institutional work are that these CSR managers are carrying out. Our qualitative inquiry suggests a pattern of five distinct but interrelated strategies applied within organizational contexts. The data further indicates that the CSR-institutionalization project and corresponding institutional work of CSR managers cannot only be achieved by crafting formalized bureaucratic structures, but must be complemented by informal strategies of convincing, “subtly nudging” others, and forming “silent” alliances with like-minded supporters. While our study provides evidence of what institutional work in the context of CSR actually entails, it also contributes to a better understanding of the nascent micro-perspective on CSR. |
URI: | https://research.vu.nl/en/publications/implementing-corporate-social-responsibility-as-institutional-wor https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/17174 |
Fulltext version: | Published version |
License (according to publishing contract): | Licence according to publishing contract |
Departement: | School of Management and Law |
Appears in collections: | Publikationen School of Management and Law |
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Wickert, C., & Risi, D. (2019). Implementing corporate social responsibility as institutional work : exploring the day-to-day activities of CSR managers in multinational corporations. In A. Sales (Ed.), Corporate social responsibility and corporate change : institutional and organizational perspectives (pp. 243–258). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15407-3_12
Wickert, C. and Risi, D. (2019) ‘Implementing corporate social responsibility as institutional work : exploring the day-to-day activities of CSR managers in multinational corporations’, in A. Sales (ed.) Corporate social responsibility and corporate change : institutional and organizational perspectives. Cham: Springer, pp. 243–258. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15407-3_12.
C. Wickert and D. Risi, “Implementing corporate social responsibility as institutional work : exploring the day-to-day activities of CSR managers in multinational corporations,” in Corporate social responsibility and corporate change : institutional and organizational perspectives, A. Sales, Ed. Cham: Springer, 2019, pp. 243–258. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-15407-3_12.
WICKERT, Christopher und David RISI, 2019. Implementing corporate social responsibility as institutional work : exploring the day-to-day activities of CSR managers in multinational corporations. In: Arnaud SALES (Hrsg.), Corporate social responsibility and corporate change : institutional and organizational perspectives [online]. Cham: Springer. S. 243–258. ISBN 978-3-030-15405-9. Verfügbar unter: https://research.vu.nl/en/publications/implementing-corporate-social-responsibility-as-institutional-wor
Wickert, Christopher, and David Risi. 2019. “Implementing Corporate Social Responsibility as Institutional Work : Exploring the Day-to-Day Activities of CSR Managers in Multinational Corporations.” In Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Change : Institutional and Organizational Perspectives, edited by Arnaud Sales, 243–58. Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15407-3_12.
Wickert, Christopher, and David Risi. “Implementing Corporate Social Responsibility as Institutional Work : Exploring the Day-to-Day Activities of CSR Managers in Multinational Corporations.” Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Change : Institutional and Organizational Perspectives, edited by Arnaud Sales, Springer, 2019, pp. 243–58, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15407-3_12.
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