New publication on "Political CSR"

Journal of Management Studies (JMS) has just published the Special Issue on “Managing for Political CSR” that was co-edited by Andreas Scherer, Guido Palazzo, Andre Spicer and Andreas Rasche

04/20/2016

Abstract - The entire issue can be accessed for free until the 6th of May, 2016

Special Issue: Managing for Political Corporate Social ResponsibilityThis article takes stock of the discourse on ‘Political CSR’ (PCSR), reconsiders some of its assumptions, and suggests new directions for what we call ‘PCSR 2.0’.

We start with a definition of PCSR, focusing on firms’ contribution to public goods. We then discuss historical antecedents to the debate and outline the original economic and political context. The following section explores emerging changes in the institutional context relevant to PCSR and reconsiders some of the assumptions underlying Habermas’ thesis of the postnational constellation. This highlights some neglected issues in previous works on PCSR, including the influence of nationalism and fundamentalism, the role of various types of business organisations, the return of government regulation, the complexity of institutional contexts, the efficiency of private governance, the financialization and digitalization of the economy, and the relevance of managerial sensemaking.

Finally, we discuss the contributions to this special issue and relate them to the newly emerging research agenda.

Keywords in the article

Business and society, corporate political activity, CSR, globalization, governance

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