The Structural Contradictions and Constraints on Corporate Social Responsibility: Challenges for Corporate Social Irresponsibility

Nunn, Alex

doi:10.1108/s2043-9059(2012)0000004012

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“…Organizations can be simultaneously unifying and divisive, for example as stratified conglomerates, that may involve class conflicts when various groups have different moral agency and separate responsibilities. For example, from a Marxist point of view, corporate moral agency as a particularly significant version of current institutional agency is sometimes viewed as severely constrained by inter-capitalist competition and class struggle (Nunn, 2012). It is also possible to think about distributed, fuzzy agency when integrity is identified as shared but not collective (Polowczyk, 2012).…”

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Organizational ethical integrity: good and bad illusions

Polowczyk

2017

Palgrave Commun

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Integrity has always been an ambiguous or vague concept. Integrity as a general concept seems to be too problematic in philosophical or scientific language. This paper will aim to improve and preserve the specific notion of integrity-the concept of moral integrity as a virtue and as a moral purpose, and its opposite-the concept of counterfeit moral integrity or false moral integrity. It stresses a strong relationship between the concepts of morality and the concept of moral integrity: if moralities are diverse, moral integrity has many forms too, and the forms are only as good as the morality behind them. The paper emphasizes their organizational dimensions because any organizational impact-due to its scale-can be especially beneficial or detrimental to society. The first objective is to introduce a preliminary conceptual order by means of definitions and typologies to support clearer (language analysis) and more critical (Critical Theory) thinking on organizational moral integrity: establishing definitions of moral and ethical integrity, new definitions of material and formal moral integrity, descriptions of irrational and rational moral integrit, and individual and organizational moral integrity. The definitions and typologies are designed to be prototypes of false integrity "detectors". The second objective is to outline an ideal of a total and rational moral commitment for every organization: organizational material ethical integrity (OMEI). The ideal of OMEI points out that most self-proclaimed ethical organizations are probably not ethically committed. The third objective is to justify the theses that (1) moral integrity can be good or bad, not simply good, and that (2) false moral integrity can be good. Whether we think of "Kantian-Nazi" integrity of Adolf Eichmann or lethal and irrational integrity of Islamic State fighters, moral integrity based on bad morality is bad. False ethical integrity (or rational moral integrity) is always bad because it imitates good morality for a bad purpose, for example: rational discourse on integrity can be a "smokescreen" to hide exploitation of labor or environmental degradation. As in the case with Irena Sendler who pretended to be "a good slave" to save children's lives, false moral integrity can be ethically good if it simulates bad morality for a good purpose. The paper offers ethical justifications for "ethical prestidigitators", "warriors of illusions", masters of "moral aikido": persons and organizations that use counterfeit integrity to maximize ethical values.

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Section: Morality and Definitions Of Integritymentioning

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Organizational ethical integrity: good and bad illusions

Polowczyk

2017

Palgrave Commun

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“…in the form of wages, taxes or profits) or the way in which 'subsistence' is socially constructed (Nunn, 2012a). For its part, capital is both engaged in class struggle but also in inter-capitalist competition to secure enhanced surplus value, particularly by innovating in products, the technology of production and organization of labour to realize greater productivity, or 'relative surplus value' (Marx, 1867, Chapter 16).…”

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The Political Economy of Competitiveness and Continuous Adjustment in EU Meta-Governance

Nunn

Beeckmans

2015

International Journal of Public Administration

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This paper asserts that attempts to resolve the crisis through recent changes in European meta-governance are just the latest phase in a project to secure 'continual adjustment' in European societies to the systemic demands of competitiveness. Utilising a New Materialist approach, the paper locates the structural pressures experienced by European economies, polities and societies in the process of world market integration. It is argued that a scalarrelational perspective drawn from critical geography can help to illuminate the ways in which the scale of the world market is becoming 'ecologically dominant' over a series of other economic, political and social scales. Understanding continual adjustment in this way suggests that the outcome of crisis management and restructuring is unlikely to be 'return to normalcy' and the scope for alternative more Keynesian programmes of reform through EU meta-governance are highly constrained.

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Irresponsabilité et résipiscence

2022

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L’objectif de cet article est de montrer que les allégations d’irresponsabilité sociale des entreprises entraînent deux types de réactions : la résipiscence individuelle – des entreprises individuelles apportant des améliorations locales « ponctuelles » ou mettant en œuvre des améliorations plus larges liées au domaine particulier de la controverse – et la disciplinarisation du secteur – des mesures compensatoires prises par d’autres entreprises du secteur qui ne sont pas directement visées par l’allégation. Les auteurs testent leurs prédictions théoriques à l’aide d’une modélisation linéaire hiérarchique et d’un échantillon de 1 803 entreprises de 2002 à 2014 provenant du Thomson Reuters Responsibility Ratings.

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The Structural Contradictions and Constraints on Corporate Social Responsibility: Challenges for Corporate Social Irresponsibility

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Organizational ethical integrity: good and bad illusions

Organizational ethical integrity: good and bad illusions

The Political Economy of Competitiveness and Continuous Adjustment in EU Meta-Governance

Irresponsabilité et résipiscence

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