Drama and Discounting in the Relational Dynamics of Corporate Social Responsibility

Grigore, Georgiana; Molesworth, Mike; Vonțea, Andreea Angela; Basnawi, Abdullah Hasan; Celep, Ogeday; Jesudoss, Sylvian Patrick

doi:10.1007/s10551-020-04591-5

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“…Our participants therefore inevitably reveal the rhetoric embedded in their role, their other identifications, and their relationship to digital technology. The process of data analysis was iterative and abductive, consistent with studies such as Erkama and Vaara (2010), Laine et al (2015), Wickert and De Bakker (2018), or Grigore et al (2020). As Driver (2017) notes, subsequent interpretations are not intended as proof of a finding, but as plausible explanations that contribute to debate.…”

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confidence: 95%

(Un)resolving digital technology paradoxes through the rhetoric of balance

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The organizational benefits of digital technologies are increasingly contrasted with negative societal consequences. Such tensions are contradictory, persistent and interrelated, suggesting paradoxes. Yet, we lack insight into how such apparent paradoxes are constructed and to what effect. This empirical paper draws upon interviews with thirty-nine responsibility managers to unpack how paradoxes are discursively (re)constructed and resolved as a rhetoric of ‘balance’ that ensures identification with organizational, familial and societal interests. We also reveal how such ‘false balance’ sustains and legitimizes organizational activity by displacing responsibilities onto distant ‘others’ through temporal (futurizing), spatial (externalizing) and level (magnifying / individualizing) rhetorical devices. In revealing the process of paradox construction and resolution as ‘balance’ in the context of digitalization and its unanticipated outcomes, we join conversations into new organizational responsibilities in the digital economy, with implications for theory and practice.

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“…Together, these initial self-representations refer to pre-existing roles that protagonists seize as discursive resources and reproduce. As proposed by Grigore et al (2021), we use upper case letters to distinguish the self-authored representations in this research from society’s actual victims, witnesses, resisters and perpetrators.…”

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confidence: 99%

It all starts with a story: Questioning dominant entrepreneurial identities through collective narrative practices

Solbreux,

Hermans,

Pondeville

et al. 2024

International Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurs

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Taking a multiple-practitioner perspective on entrepreneurial identity construction, we explore how identities can be co-constructed through social interactions. In the context of a social entrepreneurship course at a Belgian business school, we stress the role of collective narratives in breaking free of dominant frames of reference and shaping emancipatory ones. As the stories unfold, collective narratives provide opportunities to perform and negotiate dominant identities as discursive resources: to ‘thin’ certain parts and ‘thicken’ other preferred traits. Through collective narrative practices, practitioners can disrupt the dominant individual heroic entrepreneur myth and develop new entrepreneurial identities reflecting an understanding of entrepreneurship as collective action. Our original intervention method, scaffolding conversations, shows how narratives can be collected and analysed at the individual and group levels, providing members with opportunities to reflect on their shared experiences, struggles and hopes.

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“…Implementing stakeholder relationship management throughout the organization has an important role in CSR management [56]. It centers on creating, maintaining, and coordinating stakeholder relationships to enhance value and prevent ethical issues.…”

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Mapping stakeholders’ relationships management in fulfilling corporate social responsibility: A study of China’s construction industry

Zhang,

Jiang,

et al. 2024

PLoS ONE

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Businesses today face a strong call for implementing corporate social responsibilities (CSR) subject to stakeholders’ multiple expectations on the creation of long-term value. However, a vast majority of companies have struggled with the challenge of stakeholder management in CSR fulfillment, giving rise to a waste of enterprise resources. This study aims to map out stakeholders’ relationships in CSR fulfillment to underscore stakeholder management. 253 CSR reports published by Chinese listed construction companies from 2010 to 2021 were collected and analyzed to map the stakeholders’ relationships. The results show that construction companies usually stress the importance of corporate governance and workers interest, followed by construction quality and environmental preservation in implementing CSR. They adopt three types of stakeholder management approaches: coercive, cooperative, and coordinated approaches. The study presents the latest effort in managing stakeholders’ relationships in the domain of CSR research. It favors construction firms to reconsider CSR activities from the stakeholder management perspective.

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Drama and Discounting in the Relational Dynamics of Corporate Social Responsibility

Cited by 11 publications

References 43 publications

(Un)resolving digital technology paradoxes through the rhetoric of balance

(Un)resolving digital technology paradoxes through the rhetoric of balance

It all starts with a story: Questioning dominant entrepreneurial identities through collective narrative practices

Mapping stakeholders’ relationships management in fulfilling corporate social responsibility: A study of China’s construction industry

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