Post-Partnership Strategies for Defining Corporate Responsibility: The Business Social Compliance Initiative

Egels‐Zandén, Niklas; Wahlqvist, Evelina

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“…Various authors (Scott, 1995;Suchman, 1995;Deephouse, 1996;Kostova and Roth, 2002;Golant and Sillince, 2007). K 43,3/4 Over the last decade different investigations have been carried out taking into account legitimacy in organizations (Baum and Oliver, 1991;Suchman, 1995;Deephouse, 1996;Egels-Zandén and Wahlqvist, 2007;Díez Martín et al, 2010). These authors point out that legitimacy is a key factor in order to survive and grow.…”

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Institutional context and hotel social responsibility

2014

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Purpose -The authors want to study the connection between institutional theory and corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the set of hotels with three, four and five star situated in Galicia (Spain) and in the Northern region of Portugal. The authors aim to see whether there is a contrast of isomorphic behaviour in the institutional context of both regions. Design/methodology/approach -A quantitative study in which the authors apply the partial least square (PLS) technique, a methodology based on structural equations models using the software Visual-PLS. The authors intend to study the relationships between the pressures of institutional context and CSR practices, together with the relationship between legitimacy and these practices. The focus of the proposed model is based on the system theory. Findings -The main findings of this research clearly show that hotels are incorporated into an institutional context marked by enforced and regulatory pressures.Research limitations/implications -The proposed research model can be replicated using other units of study, sectors, geographic areas, among others, due to the explanatory capacity of the theoretical framework used. Originality/value -The originality of this work derives from the main contributions based on the theoretical framework (institutional theory and CSR), the object of study and geographical area (three, four and five star hotels located in Galicia and in the North of Portugal), the context (economic crisis), the field of study (private sphere) and the type of organizations (profit making).

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“…Egels-Zandén and Wahlqvist (2007) interpreted that organisations are interested in being identified as responsible organisations with the strategic objective of increasing or correcting the status of legitimacy from the consumer or client's point of view.…”

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Institutional context and hotel social responsibility

2014

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“…However, this project more or less excludes unions and NGOs (Egels-Zandén and Wahlqvist, 2007), so the local, rather than global, organizing ideal has not been challenged among unions and NGOs. These findings indicate that the global organizing principle is not a relevant concept for understanding differences in organizing between unions and NGOs.…”

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Differences in Organizing Between Unions and NGOs: Conflict and Cooperation Among Swedish Unions and NGOs

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Hyllman²

2011

J Bus Ethics

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“…Existing explanations of why firms withdraw from complying with movement demands point at push factors, in particular the negative experiences of firms in multi-stakeholder institutions, which are perceived as costly, ineffective, and slow (Fransen, 2012a(Fransen, , 2012b. This negative perception is sometimes heightened by disputes between different types of civil society actors, in particular between unions and NGOs (Egels-Zandén & Wahlqvist, 2007). Concession costs, in other words, are high, and firms prefer less costly solutions.…”

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Explaining Dynamic Strategies for Defending Company Legitimacy: The Changing Outcomes of Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns in France and Switzerland

Balsiger

2015

Business & Society

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This article analyzes and compares the dynamically changing outcomes of anti-sweatshop campaigns in France and Switzerland through a qualitative comparative case study using interviews and analysis of firsthand and secondary data. In both countries, some targeted firms made early concessions and later withdrew from those concessions. To explain these changing outcomes over time, the article develops a perspective that puts emphasis on interaction phases and highlights corporate strategic responses to anti-sweatshop movement demands. Analyzing those responses as driven by legitimacy contests between companies and activists, the study explains why anti-sweatshop movements had significant outcomes early on and shows the mechanisms that allowed firms to withdraw from initial concessions at a later stage. In the course of changing interaction dynamics and contexts, companies developed strategies building on competing sources of legitimacy to circumvent movement demands. The companies thereby compensated for the legitimacy losses inflicted by their withdrawal from

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Post-Partnership Strategies for Defining Corporate Responsibility: The Business Social Compliance Initiative

Abstract: actor-network theory (ANT), Business Social Compliance Initiative (BSCI), codes of conduct, corporate responsibility, garment industry, institutional theory, partnership, supplier relations,

Cited by 74 publications

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Institutional context and hotel social responsibility

Institutional context and hotel social responsibility

Differences in Organizing Between Unions and NGOs: Conflict and Cooperation Among Swedish Unions and NGOs

Explaining Dynamic Strategies for Defending Company Legitimacy: The Changing Outcomes of Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns in France and Switzerland

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