Toward Integrative Corporate Citizenship Research Advances in Corporate Social Performance

by Orlitzky, Marc; Swanson, Diane L.

• ISBN13: 9780230201873
• ISBN10: 0230201873
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-11-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Given the increased impact of non-market forces on business reputation, there has never been a greater need to grasp corporate social performance. This book demonstrates that a holistic perspective on corporate citizenship that accommodates the importance of profits and other time-honored social values is both desirable and possible.

Author Biography

MARC ORLITZKY is CSR Research Fellow at the International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility, Nottingham University Business School, UK. He serves on the editorial review boards of the Academy of Management Journal and Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society, and has published extensively in several other leading journals. He gained his PhD at the University of Iowa, USA.

DIANE L. SWANSON is a Professor of Management and the von Waaden Professor of Business Administration at Kansas State University, USA. Recognized in several Whos Who bibliographical indices, she is an Associate Editor for the Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society, serves on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Review and Business Ethics Quarterly, and has published extensively in other leading journals. She gained her PhD at the University of Pittsburgh, USA.  

Table of Contents

List of Tables	p. ix
List of Figures	p. x
List of Abbreviations	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xii
Introduction	p. 1
Theories of Corporate Social Performance: Toward a New Vision of Theoretical Integration of Value-Based Business Leadership	p. 7
Addressing a Lack of Theoretical Integration in Corporate Social Performance	p. 11
Toward an Integrative Theory of Value-based Leadership	p. 35
Value Attunement: Exploring the Potential for Responsible Executive Decision Making	p. 63
Empirical Research Integration: Business Social Performance, Risk, and Financial Performance	p. 79
Corporate Social and Financial Performance: An Integrative Review	p. 83
Corporate Social Performance and Business Risk	p. 121
Organizational Size, Corporate Social Performance, and Business Performance	p. 147
Doing Well by Doing Good: Objective Findings, Subjective Assumptions, or Selective Amplification?	p. 164
Implications for Measurement and Implementation: Toward an Integrative Perspective on Corporate Citizenship	p. 189
Corporate Social Performance, Stakeholder Satisfaction, and Generalizability Theory	p. 192
Normative Myopia, Executives' Personality, and Preference for Pay Dispersion: Implications for Corporate Social Performance	p. 212
Prospects for Integrative Citizenship in Research and Practice	p. 242
Index	p. 255
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