Not dinosaurs but dynamos: the roles of middle managers in corporate social responsibility and sustainable development issues

Birollo, Gustavo; Esper, Susana C.; Rouleau, Linda

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“…Integrating sustainability decisions in daily practice requires that managers and employees with mainstream business functions and roles act sustainably, too. The literature has recently shown that middle line managers play an important role in that matter (Birollo et al., 2021). Without engaged sustainable mainstream managers in product development, procurement, production, logistics, sales, accounting, etc.…”

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“…Based on distinctive roles, we propose six archetypes of CAS and develop a framework to discuss their contribution potential for sustainability transformations. This special issue aims to extend and deepen the burgeoning scholarly debate on CAS (e.g., Battilana et al, 2009;Birollo et al, 2021;Boiral et al, 2014;Buhr et al, 2023;Caldwell, 2003;Carollo & Guerci, 2018;Daudigeos, 2013;Girschik, 2020a;Lindgreen et al, 2011;Westley et al, 2013). We have solicited contributions that share further light into who CAS are, what they do, and how they impact corporate sustainability.…”

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Corporate change agents for sustainability: Transforming organizations from the inside out

Schaltegger,

Girschik,

Trittin‐Ulbrich

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Business Ethics Env & Resp

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Sustainable development requires sustainability transformations of (so far unsustainable) companies. Sustainability transformations of companies do not happen by themselves but are the result of individuals and groups who purposefully act for sustainability. It is individual managers and employees within an organization—so‐called “change agents for sustainability”—who play a vital role in advancing corporate sustainability, as they are responsible for starting initiatives, making decisions, and implementing measures. Recent contributions have started to address the transformational role of individual sustainability professionals and employees shaping decisions around social and environmental issues in organizations. An overview and conceptualization of what can be understood by change agents for sustainability, their roles, and interactions is however missing. This article therefore proposes a framework and typology of six archetypes of change agents for sustainability: their key competencies and roles in initiating, scaling, and sustaining change in and beyond organizational boundaries.

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Corporate change agents for sustainability: Transforming organizations from the inside out

Schaltegger,

Girschik,

Trittin‐Ulbrich

et al. 2023

Business Ethics Env & Resp

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Responsibilities for just transition to low-carbon societies: a role-based framework

Kortetmäki

Huttunen

2022

Environmental Politics

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Integration of CSR Practices by Project Managers

Houndegnon-Gbai

Birollo

Esper

2022

Handbook of Research on Promoting an Inclusive Organizational Culture for Entrepreneurial Sustainability

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Extant research has overlooked the critical role that middle position actors, not directly related to corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives, play in the implementation of the sustainable development policy of the organization. In the context of project-based organizations, there is a need for a deeper understanding of the role of project managers' integration of CSR practices when developing and executing their projects. To capture the concrete actions project managers perform when integrating CSR practices into their projects, the authors collected data through semi-structured interviews, opting for a qualitative methodology and a single exploratory case study. They contribute to the CSR literature by opening the black box of intra-organizational CSR dynamics, by bringing forward the relational process triggered by project managers to enact the organizational CSR practices, and by recognizing the importance of project managers' horizontal interactions inside their organization to achieve their project goals while framing them on a sustainable approach.

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Not dinosaurs but dynamos: the roles of middle managers in corporate social responsibility and sustainable development issues

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Corporate change agents for sustainability: Transforming organizations from the inside out

Corporate change agents for sustainability: Transforming organizations from the inside out

Responsibilities for just transition to low-carbon societies: a role-based framework

Integration of CSR Practices by Project Managers

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