Corporate Social Responsibility: A Process Model of Sensemaking
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- 1 January 2008
- journal article
- Published by Academy of Management in Academy of Management Review
- Vol. 33 (1) , 122-136
- https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2008.27745504
Abstract
In contrast to content-based models of corporate social responsibility (CSR), we propose a process model of organizational sensemaking explaining how managers think, discuss, and act with respect to their key stakeholders and the world at large. We also propose a set of cognitive, linguistic, and conative dimensions to identify such an intrinsic orientation that guides CSR-related activities. Recognizing patterns of interrelationships among these dimensions might lead to a better understanding of a firm's CSR impact and generate a rich research agenda that links key organizational features to CSR character.Keywords
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