Directors’ Roles in Corporate Social Responsibility: A Stakeholder Perspective
We propose that corporate directors are important in helping organizations deal with two major issues of stakeholders. First, directors can help manage the interests of organizational stakeholders, and second, they assist in protecting the interests of their organizations as stakeholders in society....
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
2011
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Journal of business ethics
Year: 2011, Volume: 103, Issue: 3, Pages: 385-402 |
| Further subjects: | B
corporate directors
B corporate social responsibility roles B Stakeholders |
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| Summary: | We propose that corporate directors are important in helping organizations deal with two major issues of stakeholders. First, directors can help manage the interests of organizational stakeholders, and second, they assist in protecting the interests of their organizations as stakeholders in society. Their contribution can be conceptualized as the directors’ roles in corporate social responsibility (DR-CSR). We identify two types of DR-CSR, organization-centered and society-centered roles. Based on a study of 120 corporate directors, we observe that the more concern that corporate directors have for stakeholders, the more likely that they will perceive the need to perform their DR-CSR effectively. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-0697 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s10551-011-0870-5 |