Moving to CSR
- 1 March 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Business & Society
- Vol. 37 (1) , 40-59
- https://doi.org/10.1177/000765039803700103
Abstract
The study of Social Issues in Management (SIM) has exhausted its primary analytic framework based on corporate social performance (social science), business ethics (philosophy), and stakeholder theory (organizational science), and needs to move to a new paradigmatic level based on the natural sciences. Doing so would expand research horizons to include cosmological perspectives (astrophysics), evolutionary theory (biology, genetics, ecology), and non-sectarian spirituality concepts (theological naturalism, cognitive neuroscience). Absent this shift, SIM studies risk increasing irrelevance for scholars and business practitioners.Keywords
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