Meta-reviewing the business and society field through sociological paradigms: Towards pluralistic re-presentations of corporate social responsibility

  • Although the growth of the field of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) calls for more diverse exercises of reviewing, most reviews of CSR research present the organising categories on which they build as taken-for-granted. In so doing, they reify a structural-functionalist orientation and a linear view of time while failing to represent accurately alternative post-structural and anti-structural CSR paradigms. Building on an analysis of 40 reviews of the CSR field and on insights from the social studies of science, this paper revisits the notion of field re-presentation and highlights the need for building on categories, which embed a richer set of ontological assumptions to represent the CSR field in a manner that could maintain a dose of ontological and epistemological pluralism and diversity. We finally discuss the implications of our analysis to enhance CSR theory-building, cross-fertilize insights from distinct CSR paradigms and develop alternative assumptions to investigate empirically CSR phenomena.

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Document Type:Article
Language:English
Author(s):Jean-Pascal Gond, Sébastien MenaORCiD, Szilvia Mosonyi
Parent Title (English):Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society
ISSN:2160-6900
Publication year:2017
Publishing Institution:Hertie School
First Page:56
Last Page:57
DOI:https://doi.org/10.5840/iabsproc2017288
Release Date:2020/10/22
Volume:28
Licence of document (German):Metadaten / metadata
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