Sub-theme 24: Critical Perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility and Stakeholder Relations
Convenors:
Johanna Moisander, Aalto University School of Business, Finland
Kathryn Fahy, Lancaster University Management School, UK
Claudia Groß, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Session I: Thursday, July 02, 11:00 to 12:30, COM-2111
'Opening' + Political CSR and Critical Stakeholder Relations
Chair: Kathryn Fahy, Claudia Groß & Johanna Moisander
Jukka Mäkinen and Eero Kasanen
Combining government social responsibility and Corporate Social Responsibility
Session II: Thursday, July 02, 14:00 to 15:30, COM-2111
Disrupting Market-oriented Conceptions of CSR
Chair: Claudia Groß
Nora Lohmeyer
Struggles for hegemony: The social construction of the business case for CSR
Florence Palpacuer, Eléonore Mounoud, Christophe Alliot and Sylvain Ly
The circular economy as a road for sustainable development: Contradictions and limits in the French system of 'extended producer
responsibility' for e-waste management
Christian T. Lystbaek
Conceptions of corporate responsibility in CSR policy
Session III: Thursday, July 02, 16:00 to 17:30, COM-2111
CSR in Practice: logics, Discourses, and Value Systems
Chair: Kathryn Fahy
Emilio Marti and Anselm Schneider
Socially responsible investing as a driver of corporate social responsibility? An instituitonal logics perspectice
Hélio Arthur Reis Irigaray, Lygia Costa and Renata Oliveira-Silva
Corporate Social Responsibility: What the daily life in a Brazilian slum can teach us?
Session IV: Friday, July 03, 09:00 to 10:30
- Round Table -
Round Table A: Institutional Dynamics in CSR - Room: COM-2111
Chair: Denise Campos Chaves Machado
Eshani Beddewela
Exploring the antecedents of political corporate social responsibility: Institutional and organisational perspectives
Sebastian Öttl
Stakeholders' advocates within MNCs: Institutional complexity and the role of structures and processes of internal representation
Natalya Turkina, Ben Neville, Sara Bice and Peter Gahan
A multilevel explanation of variety in corporate social responsibility: A 'dually embedded agency' perspective
Daniel Jardim Pardini, Denise Machado and Carlos Alberto Gonçalves
Corporate social responsibility: Origins and evolution through a historical perspective at four Brazilian steel companies
Round Table B: The Communicative Construction of CSR - Room: PIERCE-702
Chair: Kirsti Iivonen
Kirsti Iivonen
Discursive construction of a controversial industry – Villainization of the beverage industry
Meri-Maaria Kyyrönen, Martin Fougère, Veronica Liljander and Pia Polsa
Desperately seeking CSR: How a business confederation-owned infomediary constructs positive business impacts on society
Philipp Poschmann, Jan Goldenstein, Sebastian G.M. Händschke and Peter Walgenbach
Communicative appropriation of employees' voluntary engagement in the enactment of corporate social responsibility
Session V: Friday, July 03, 14:00 to 15:30
- Round Table -
Round Table A: The influence and Avoidance of Mandatory CSR Practices - Room: COM-2111
Chair: Irina Lock
Youqing Fan and Peter Hofman
The role of government in the diffusion of Corporate Social Responsibility practices in China: An institutional logic and
legitimacy perspective
Kathrin Böhling and Diego Murguia
Sustainability reporting in the mining sector: Managing for legitimacy
Irina Lock and Peter Seele
Voluntary and/or mandatory standardization of CSR reports? Critical comments from a quantitative content analysis of CSR reports
Round Table B: The CSR Practitioner - Room: PIERCE-702
Chair: Anu Penttilä
Diana Zdravkovic, Nina Königslehner and Michael Müller-Camen
Professionalization and Corporate Social Responsibility: A study on German and US American job requirements in CSR jobs
Anu Penttilä
Responsibility as daily work of practitioners – Studying responsibility work from a practice theoretical perspective
Luca Carollo and Marco Guerci
CSR managers talk: occupational rhetoric between continuity and change in organizations
Sofia Villo
What really drives corporate response to stakeholders’ calls for transparency, dialogue and engagement? The case of Gazprom
Arctic oil drilling
Session VI: Saturday, July 04, 09:00 to 10:30, COM-2111
Legitimacy and Justification
Chair: Visa Penttilä
Visa Penttilä, Kirsi Eräranta and Johanna Moisander
Tax avoidance and the division of moral labour in health care: A discursive perspective on political CSR
Kerrie Sadiq, Mattia Anesa, Nicole Gillespie and Andreas Paul Spee
Understanding the legitimacy of corporate tax strategies from multiple perspectives
Rolf Brühl and Melanie Eichhorn
Justification as a rhetorical strategy to restore legitimacy after the financial crisis
Session VII: Saturday, July 04, 11:00 to 12:30, COM-2111
Legacies and Narratives of CSR + Closing Discussion
Chair: Kathryn Fahy, Claudia Groß & Johanna Moisander
Pilar Acosta, Mar Pérezts, Aurélien Acquier and Olivier Delbard
Political CSR as déjà vu: A case of the sedimented nature of CSR in Colombia
José-Carlos García-Rosell
Contesting, negotiating and constructing the notion of social responsibility through collaborative storytelling