CSR
Monday, 14. May 2012 |
Managing contradictions of CSR: The sustainability of diversity in a frontrunner firm
Managing contradictions of CSR: The sustainability of diversity in a frontrunner firmBjerregaard, T. & Lauring, J. 2012 I : Business Ethics.Publikation: Forskning - peer review › TidsskriftartikelOriginalsprogEngelskTidsskriftBusiness EthicsUdgivelsesdato2012ISSN0962-8770StatusAccepteret
Friday, 13. April 2012 |
Do Companies care about the environment and do they dare communicate it?
Do Companies care about the environment and do they dare communicate it?Madsen, H., Nielsen, A. E., Thomsen, C. & Ulhøi, J. P. 2012Publikation: Forskning - peer review › PaperThe actual debate on climate changes has clear relevance to debates and developments in areas such as corporate environmental management and corporate social responsibility. For quite a while, management scholars have investigated the interrelations between corporate business activities and the natural environment and society at large. Since it makes good sense for industry to respond to concerns and stakes espoused by key holders, it is of high relevance to identify and analyze patterns in company’s perception of these behavioural drivers as well as how they try to influence stakeholders when communicating attitudes and actions related to their environmental and societal concern. Data for this paper comes from two studies: (i) a questionnaire based survey distributed to a random sample of industrial companies in Denmark in 1995, 1999, 2003, 2007 and 2011 focusing on their respond to the environmental challenge; and (ii) an interview based study of CSR activities in Danish SMEs in 2007. The paper concludes that despite the apparent attractiveness of self-regulation in industry, the major influence on industry’s’ environmental and climatically related behaviour seems to originates from stakeholders representing regulatory factors; i.e. voluntary options tend not to be widely adopted thus pointing to a continued strong need for an effective regulation. Furthermore, it concludes that SMEs and SME managers tend not to communicate strategically and externally about the CSR activities of the company.OriginalsprogEngelskUdgivelsesdato2012Antal sider38StatusAccepteretKonferenceKonference12th Conference of the European Academy of ManagementLandHollandByRotterdamPeriode06-06-12 → 08-06-12
Friday, 02. March 2012 |
Analyzing CSR Reports with Computer-Aided Text Analysis: The Art of Digging, Chopping and Sieving
Analyzing CSR Reports with Computer-Aided Text Analysis: The Art of Digging, Chopping and SievingPollach, I. 2012Publikation: Forskning › PaperOriginalsprogEngelskUdgivelsesdato2012Antal sider19StatusAccepteretKonferenceKonferenceEuropean Business Ethics Network Research ConferenceLandStorbritannienByNewcastlePeriode07-06-12 → 09-06-12
Monday, 30. January 2012 |
Writing consumer identities through the iPod: The Good Guide application's role in communicating knowledge about Corporate Social Responsibility
Writing consumer identities through the iPod: The Good Guide application's role in communicating knowledge about Corporate Social ResponsibilityKampf, C. E. 2011Publikation: Forskning - peer review › Konferenceabstrakt til konferenceHow do web 2.0 and mobile technologies affect the available means for interaction between consumers and corporations? What are the implications for communicating corporate social responsibility? Gee (1996:6) states that “When we write or read, speak or listen, we coordinate and are coordinated by specific identities, specific ways of using language, various objects, tools, technologies, sites and institutions, as well as other people’s minds and bodies.” Using Gee’s focus on the connection between language use, technology and context as part of identities in interaction, this paper explores the potential and implications of mobile technologies for the communication of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). The Good Guide iPod application is a mini third party database of product rankings in terms of social responsibility towards consumer health, environmental impact and social effects of production. It offers a space for examining the potential impacts of a technology mediated interaction between consumers and corporations.OriginalsprogEngelskUdgivelsesdato2011StatusUdgivetKonferenceKonferenceRhetoric in Society IIILandBelgienByAntwerpenPeriode26-01-11 → 28-01-11
Monday, 30. January 2012 |
Mobile CSR projects linking consumers with corporations: Carrotmob, GoodGuide and ColaLife
Mobile CSR projects linking consumers with corporations: Carrotmob, GoodGuide and ColaLifeKampf, C. E. 2011 PowerPoint.Publikation: Forskning › Net-publikationOriginalsprogEngelskUdgivelsesdato2011TypePowerPointKilde/udgiverCSR Communication Conference and Slideshare.netStatusUdgivet
Monday, 30. January 2012 |
Turning CSR on it's head: CarrotMob.org using Social Media to entice local businesses to reduce their ecological footprint in the US and EU
Turning CSR on it's head: CarrotMob.org using Social Media to entice local businesses to reduce their ecological footprint in the US and EUKampf, C. E. 2011Publikation: Forskning › Konferenceabstrakt til konferenceCSR takes a stakeholder approach that considers a broader definition of people who can affect and are affected by firms (Freeman 1984, Donaldson & Preston 1995). Currently, CSR is conceptualized from the perspective of firms choosing their practices based on communication with these stakeholders. However, from a technology perspective, Howe (2009) argues that the boundaries of the firm are becoming porous, and through social media people are contributing some of their best energy for free. These technology empowered stakeholders can be resources for strategy when the firm is seen as having porous, rather than impermeable boundaries. Thus, social and mobile media can be approached as a force that works at further eroding boundaries between the firm and technology empowered individuals equipped with their personal agendas and social media capital. As an example of social media turning tradition on its head, Carrotmob.org turns a firm-focused understanding of the CSR conversation upside down by providing a platform for consumers to bring their ideas about CSR to local firms, engaging the firms in a competition to pledge a percentage of their profits during an afternoon towards reducing their ecological footprint. Then CarrotMob members use social media to recruit as many customers as possible to shop at that time, thus increasing both profits and available resources for the business to engage in sustainability. As sustainability and CSR are enacted differently in the US and EU (Matten and Moon 2004, Kampf 2007), this paper analyzes YouTube videos of CarrotMob events, comparing and contrasting ways in which CarrotMob events are conceptualized, practiced and presented differently in EU andUS cultural, and CSR contexts. Sources:Freeman, R. E, 1984. Strategic Management: A stakeholder approach. Boston: Pitman. ISBN 0273019139.Donaldson, T., Preston, L. E. 1995. "The Stakeholder Theory of the Corporation: Concepts, Evidence, and Implications". Academy of Management Review (Academy of Management) 20 (1): 71.Howe, J. 2008. Crowdsourcing: Why the power of the crowd is driving the future of business. Crown Business Publishers.Kampf, C. 2007. “Corporate social responsibility: WalMart, Maersk and the cultural bounds of representation in corporate web sites.” Corporate Communications: An International Journal. 12(1).Matten, D. and Moon, J. 2004. „Implicit‟ and „explicit‟ CSR: a conceptual framework for understanding CSR in Europe. ICCSR Research Papers Series– ISSN1479-5124 No. 29-2004. http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/business/ICCSR/pdf/ResearchPdfs/29-2004.pdf, visited 1 July 2005.OriginalsprogEngelskUdgivelsesdato2011Antal sider1StatusUdgivetKonferenceKonferenceEUKO the 11th Interdisciplinary Symposium of the Research Network European Cultures in Business and Corporate CommunicationLandDanmarkByAarhus Periode10-11-11 → 12-11-11
Monday, 30. January 2012 |
CSR in Corporate Self-Storying – Legitimacy as a Question of Differentiation and Conformity
CSR in Corporate Self-Storying – Legitimacy as a Question of Differentiation and ConformityJohansen, T. S. & Nielsen, A. E. 2012 I : Corporate Communications. 19 s.Publikation: Forskning - peer review › TidsskriftartikelOriginalsprogEngelskTidsskriftCorporate CommunicationsUdgivelsesdato2012Antal sider19ISSN1356-3289StatusAccepteret
Friday, 27. January 2012 |
Consumer-oriented CSR communication: Focusing on ability or morality?
Consumer-oriented CSR communication: Focusing on ability or morality?Schmeltz, L. 2012 I : Corporate Communications. 17, 1, s. 29-49. 20 s.Publikation: Forskning - peer review › TidsskriftartikelOriginalsprogEngelskTidsskriftCorporate CommunicationsUdgivelsesdato2012Vol/bind17Tidsskriftsnummer1Sider29-49Antal sider20ISSN1356-3289DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1108/13563281211196344StatusUdgivet
Friday, 20. January 2012 |
Building a Framework of Global Cooperation Beyond the Economic Performance of Companies in Developing Nations
Building a Framework of Global Cooperation Beyond the Economic Performance of Companies in Developing NationsFitriasari, D. & Kampf, C. E. 2011 Analysis of Social and Environmental Reporting as a Practice of Accountability to Stakeholders . Fitriasaari, D. (red.). Aarhus : Aarhus School of Business, Aarhus University s. 136-176. 40 s. (PhD thesis).Publikation: Forskning - peer review › Bidrag til bog/antologiWe examine the emerging generative force in developing SER (social and environmental reporting) that focuses on the economic performance of companies from developing nations. The focus raises our concern because it suggests that the development of SER is for shareholders and other capital suppliers. We observe that the focus is in direct contradiction to the original generative force of SER, i.e. stakeholder interests. This leads to the marginalization of other stakeholder groups' interests. In order to shift the focus of developing nations, cooperation between developing nations and SER standard setters is important because the cooperation is a place for negotiating and transforming conceptions. We adopt the sociological approach to culture because SER in developing nations has significant relations to national conditions. Foucault's history of subjectivity outlines the stages of social actors to give insights into their cultural values, Foucault's technology of the selfwith its care of one-self introduces the concept of social actors liberation from the history of subjectivity and thereby, to elaborate and transform their self-conception in relation to others' conceptions of identity. Laclau's construct of empty signifiers assists to allow communication between social actors as the processes underlying empty signifiers brings together homogeneous and heterogeneous particulars in one palce. Findings from our case study of a historical progression of Indonesia from the third century to the present day suggest the mix of national contexts and universal standards is desirable provided all social actors are willing to communicate and transform their conceptions. OriginalsprogEngelskTitelAnalysis of Social and Environmental Reporting as a Practice of Accountability to Stakeholders RedaktørerDewi FitriasaariAntal sider40UdgivelsesstedAarhusUdgiverAarhus School of Business, Aarhus UniversityUdgivelsesdato2011Sider136-176Kapitel4ISBN (trykt)978-8778825-79-7StatusUdgivetPublikationsserierNavnPhD thesisVol/bind2011:16ISSN (Trykt)1601-653X
Tuesday, 13. December 2011 |
The soil-water characteristic curve at low soil-water contents: Relationships with soil specific surface area and texture
The soil-water characteristic curve at low soil-water contents: Relationships with soil specific surface area and textureResurreccion, A. C., Møldrup, P., Tuller, M., Ferrè, T., Kawamoto, K., Komatsu, T. & de Jonge, L. W. 2011 I : Water Resources Research. 47, W06522, 12 s.Publikation: Forskning - peer review › TidsskriftartikelAccurate description of the soil water retention curve (SWRC) at low water contents is important for simulating water dynamics and biochemical vadose zone processes in arid environments. Soil water retention data corresponding to matric potentials of less than −10 MPa, where adsorptive forces dominate over capillary forces, have also been used to estimate soil specific surface area (SA). In the present study, the dry end of the SWRC was measured with a chilled-mirror dew point psychrometer for 41 Danish soils covering a wide range of clay (CL) and organic carbon (OC) contents. The 41 soils were classified into four groups on the basis of the Dexter number (n = CL/OC), and the Tuller-Or (TO) general scaling model describing water film thickness at a given matric potential (<−10 MPa) was evaluated. The SA estimated from the dry end of the SWRC (SA_SWRC) was in good agreement with the SA measured with ethylene glycol monoethyl ether (SA_EGME) only for organic soils with n > 10. A strong correlation between the ratio of the two surface area estimates and the Dexter number was observed and applied as an additional scaling function in the TO model to rescale the soil water retention curve at low water contents. However, the TO model still overestimated water film thickness at potentials approaching ovendry condition (about −800 MPa). The semi–log linear Campbell-Shiozawa-Rossi-Nimmo (CSRN) model showed better fits for all investigated soils from −10 to −800 MPa and yielded high correlations with CL and SA. It is therefore recommended to apply the empirical CSRN model for predicting the dry part of the water retention curve (−10 to −800 MPa) from measured soil texture or surface area. Further research should aim to modify the more physically based TO model to obtain better descriptions of the SWRC in the very dry range (−300 to −800 MPa).OriginalsprogEngelskTidsskriftWater Resources ResearchUdgivelsesdato2011Vol/bind47TidsskriftsnummerW06522Antal sider12ISSN0043-1397DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2010WR010229StatusUdgivet
