A2 Review article, Literature review, Systematic review
History in corporate social responsibility : Reviewing and setting an agenda (2021)
Stutz, C. (2021). History in corporate social responsibility : Reviewing and setting an agenda. Business History, 63(2), 175-204. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2018.1543661
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Publication details
All authors or editors: Stutz, Christian
Journal or series: Business History
ISSN: 0007-6791
eISSN: 1743-7938
Publication year: 2021
Volume: 63
Issue number: 2
Pages range: 175-204
Publisher: Routledge
Publication country: United Kingdom
Publication language: English
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2018.1543661
Publication open access: Not open
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Publication is parallel published (JYX): https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/71930
Additional information: Published online: 04 Dec 2018.
Abstract
The integration of historical reasoning and corporate social responsibility (CSR) theorising has recently received remarkable cross-disciplinary attention by business historians and CSR scholars. But has there been a meaningful interdisciplinary conversation? Motivated by this question that presumes significant limitations in the current integration, I survey existing research for the purpose of sketching and shaping historical CSR studies, ie an umbrella that brings together diverse approaches to history and CSR theorising. Drawing from the recent efforts to establish historical methodologies in organisation studies, I first reconcile discrepant disciplinary and field-level traditions to create a meaningful intellectual space for both camps. Secondly, I provide a synthesis of the history of CSR from three different meta-theoretical perspectives in the context of three maturing knowledge clusters. To bridge past and future work, I finally set a research agenda arising from current research and drawing on different sets of assumptions about history and CSR.
Keywords: enterprises; history; corporate responsibility; business ethics; organisational research; ethics
Free keywords: business history; corporate social responsibility (CSR); historical organisation studies
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Ministry reporting: Yes
Reporting Year: 2021
JUFO rating: 2
