Corporate Responsibility Evolution Models: Concepts, Evidence and Implications

Description

There is increasing pressure from societies for corporations to become more responsible. Against this background, corporate responsibility (CR), which aims at integrating financial with ethical, social, and environmental aspects in management, has been a concept of growing interest. Research has shown that companies develop through conceptual stages from defensive to transformational on a learning curve. We present a literature review on evolutionary models of corporate responsibility (CR) and show possible alleys for future research. We argue that future research should be more rigorous in the differentiation of theoretical and empirical research and that different learning characteristics, such as learning direction, transition, and speed all require further inquiry.

AB - There is increasing pressure from societies for corporations to become more responsible. Against this background, corporate responsibility (CR), which aims at integrating financial with ethical, social, and environmental aspects in management, has been a concept of growing interest. Research has shown that companies develop through conceptual stages from defensive to transformational on a learning curve. We present a literature review on evolutionary models of corporate responsibility (CR) and show possible alleys for future research. We argue that future research should be more rigorous in the differentiation of theoretical and empirical research and that different learning characteristics, such as learning direction, transition, and speed all require further inquiry.

Period	01.07.2010 → 03.07.2010
Event title	26th EGOS Colloquium - EGOS 2010 : Waves of Globalization: Repetition and difference in organizing over time and space
Event type	Conference
Conference number	26
Organiser	University of Lisbon
Sponsor	European Group of Organizational Studies
Location	Lisbon, PortugalShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International