How significant is corporate social responsibility to business research?

Gago, Roberto Fernández; García, Laura Cabeza; Godos‐Díez, José‐Luis

doi:10.1002/csr.1927

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“…In the Norwegian media, the sustainability discourse has progressively permeated discussions on the business-society relationship. Although there is an increased attention to CSR in the academic literature (Carroll, 2021;Fernández-Gago et al, 2020), it is interesting to observe a decreased reference to the term in public discourse over the last decade. However, even if discussions on CSR and the social responsibility of business have declined since 2008 in our data set from the newspaper Aftenposten, we argue that the concept of CSR has become more ambitious as a result of inherent premises in the sustainability discourse, meaning that the public understanding of the role of business in society envisions a wide and deep engagement where business actors are expected to be proactive agents of social and environmental change.…”

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The long-term transformation of the concept of CSR: towards a more comprehensive emphasis on sustainability

Aslaksen

Hildebrandt

Johnsen

2021

Int J Corporate Soc Responsibility

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This article adds to the discussion of the long-term transformation of CSR, presenting a perspective on the interplay between CSR debate and public discourse on business responsibility. 50 years after Milton Friedman’s provoking claim that the only responsibility for business is to seek profit, a broader debate has emerged aligning CSR with an increasingly comprehensive concept of sustainability. We trace this evolution of the concept during the last three decades focusing on the intersection of economic, social, and environmental responsibility. Based on discourse analysis of news articles and opinion pieces in the largest public newspaper in Norway from 1990 until 2018, the study confirms that discussions on CSR, sustainability and the social model often approach the same challenges. We argue that sustainability has become the dominating term in popular usage for describing the relationship between business and society. Based on our analysis of the public debate, CSR has become a more comprehensive term, transformed from being a term mainly related to internal business affairs to part of a broader societal discussion about sustainability.

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The long-term transformation of the concept of CSR: towards a more comprehensive emphasis on sustainability

Aslaksen

Hildebrandt

Johnsen

2021

Int J Corporate Soc Responsibility

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“…The history of corporate social responsibility (CSR) is as old as the business itself (Afsar et al, 2020; Fernández‐Gago et al, 2020). To date, there is no generally agreed definition of CSR.…”

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Framing the evolution of the corporate social responsibility and environmental management journal

Farrukh

Raza

et al. 2021

Corp Soc Responsibility Env

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This study presents a bibliometric analysis of Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management (CSREM) covering the period from 2003 to 2020. Data for the analysis is drawn from the Scopus database. The analysis of 875 publications reflects an admirable pursuit for intellectual excellence by the journal. It is starting with five citations in 2003; the journal has earned 6434 citations during the year 2020. Over the last 18 years, the journal has accumulated 22,770 citations. The paper provides an in-depth insight into what has been achieved by the journal by analyzing bibliographic mapping of knowledge, intellectual structure of publications, contributions by universities, countries, and authors using bibliographic coupling (BC), co-citations, and co-occurrence (CC) methods. As the first retrospection of the journal, the study would be of interest to the readers, contributors, and the editorial board, as it offers inputs for future research.

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“…This reflection has been distorting academic growth for the past 50 years and, according to the research results, this tendency will intensify (particularly in the context of implementing rules four through eight) (Table 4). It is increasingly discussed in management journals, including the most prestigious ones (e.g., Academy of Management Journal [97,98], Journal of Business Ethics [99][100][101]) or even devoted ones (Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management [102][103][104]). The abovementioned statement is confirmed in the research results (Figure 4).…”

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Philanthropy and the Contribution of Andrew Carnegie to Corporate Social Responsibility

Janowski

2020

Sustainability

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The idea of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has attracted the interests of both practitioners and scientists, particularly since 1953, when H. R. Bowen published The Social Responsibilities of the Businessman. Over the years, the CSR concept evolved and became a managerial phenomenon; it was applied to different sectors with supposedly excellent effects. Unfortunately, there was discourse around the meaning of CSR. In the world of science, there is no agreement as to the semantic area of CSR. Academics face absolute, undisturbed freedom in the formulation of its elements and definitions. That abovementioned ambiguity determined the situation the recent CSR literature is vague and biased, and an extensive analysis of the latest contributions are lacking. To address this gap, there has been proposed a systematic literature review and bibliometrics of 119 articles published in 45 peer-reviewed, high-quality academic journals and 19 books, from January 1950 to July 2020. There are three objectives of this paper: to analyze the recent CSR definitions in the context of Carnegie’s principles, to identify trends in that field and evaluate the utility of the scientific efforts in the abovementioned context, and to indicate the future research paths in the context of corporate social responsibility.

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How significant is corporate social responsibility to business research?

Cited by 30 publications

References 49 publications

The long-term transformation of the concept of CSR: towards a more comprehensive emphasis on sustainability

The long-term transformation of the concept of CSR: towards a more comprehensive emphasis on sustainability

Framing the evolution of the corporate social responsibility and environmental management journal

Philanthropy and the Contribution of Andrew Carnegie to Corporate Social Responsibility

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