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One Rule to Rule Them All? Organisational Sensemaking of Corporate Responsibility

2015

Corporate responsibility (CR) has often been criticised as a decoupled organisational phenomenon: a publicly espoused rule that is not followed in daily organisational practices. We argue that a crucial reason for this criticism arises from the dominant in-house assumption of CR literature, which mitigates tensions and contradictions in organisational life by claiming that integrated rules result in coupled practices. We aim to provide new insights by problematising this in-house assumption and by examining how members of two organisations discursively make sense of CR, as a daily rule-bound practice, via three strategies: integration, differentiation and fragmentation. We elaborate the con…

Does Culture Matter? : Measuring Cross-Country Perceptions of CSR Communication Campaigns about COVID-19

2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought several challenges to businesses and societies. In response, many corporations have supported local communities and authorities in the management of the pandemic. Although these initiatives, which can be considered forms of corporate social responsibility (CSR), were highly coupled with explicit CSR communication campaigns, little is known about whether these campaigns were effective. Previous research indicates that culture can shape people’s perceptions of CSR initiatives and communications, suggesting that businesses pay attention to careful consideration of cultural norms for effective CSR communication. However, the COVID-19 pandemic as a new CSR setti…

Vastuullisuus paikallista yhteisöä kohtaan johdon käsityksissä yritysvastuusta

2016

Tässä pro gradu -tutkielmassa tutkittiin sitä, miten suomalainen yritys ymmärtää vastuullisen yritystoiminnan. Koska johdon käsitykset yritysvastuusta edustavat sitä, miten yritys ymmärtää vastuullisen yritystoiminnan, tarkoitettiin tässä tutkimuksessa yrityksen käsityksillä yritysvastuusta kohdeorganisaation johdon käsityksiä yritysvastuusta. Tutkimuksen kohdeorganisaatio oli Keskisuomalainen Oyj, joka on suomalainen viestintäyhtiö. Kohdeorganisaation johdolla tarkoitettiin tässä tutkimuksessa Keskisuomalainen Oyj:n johtoryhmän jäseniä. Keskisuomalainen Oyj:n johtoryhmän jäsenten käsityksiä yritysvastuusta tutkittiin fenomenografisella tutkimusotteella. Tässä tutkimuksessa kvalitatiivinen…

Yritysvastuuraportoinnin vertailukelpoisuus ja raportoinnin kehittäminen : case KONE Oyj

2013

Tämän tutkimuksen tarkoitus oli selvittää vastuuraportoinnin vertailtavuutta parantavia tekijöitä ja miten vertailukelpoisuutta voidaan kehittää yrityksissä. Tutkimuksen kohdeyrityksenä on KONE Oyj, jonka vastuuraportoinnin parantamiseksi annettiin kehitysehdotuksia. Tutkimuksen metodologinen lähestymistapa on kvalitatiivinen case-tutkimus. Tutkimus toteutettiin kahdella metodilla: Ensimmäinen osa sisältää vastuuraporttien vertailututkimuksen, jossa vertailtiin KONEen, ThyssenKruppin, Metson ja Ahlstromin vastuuraportteja raportoinnin selittävien teorioiden, GRI:n sisältö- ja laatutekijöiden, sertifiointien ja standardien, sisällön jatkuvuuden ja lukujen esittämisen sekä ulkoisen varmennuks…

History in corporate social responsibility : Reviewing and setting an agenda

2018

The integration of historical reasoning and corporate social responsibility (CSR) theorising has recently received remarkable cross-disciplinary attention by business historians and CSR scholars. But has there been a meaningful interdisciplinary conversation? Motivated by this question that presumes significant limitations in the current integration, I survey existing research for the purpose of sketching and shaping historical CSR studies, ie an umbrella that brings together diverse approaches to history and CSR theorising. Drawing from the recent efforts to establish historical methodologies in organisation studies, I first reconcile discrepant disciplinary and field-level traditions to c…

Aging as a topic in a business magazine : an opportunity or threat for management?

2018

Purpose Recently, research on aging in the work-life context from the perspective of how to manage, support and retain an aging workforce has increased among management scholars, and therefore is contributing to the current societal need to extend work careers. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the articles discussing aging in the work-life context in the Finnish business magazine Talouselämä (Economic Life) during the years 2002–2017. Design/methodology/approach A total of 81 articles were included in the analysis. They were classified into seven themes as a result of a content analysis. Three levels of discussions on aging were identified: societal, organizational and individual. T…

Employee Rhetoric in the Acceptance or Rejection of Corporate Environmentalism

2016

This study explores how employees in a Finnish financial company use rhetorical strategies to accept or reject corporate environmentalism. It is based on a qualitative study in which face-to-face interviews were conducted among 30 employees. The study shows how employees rejected corporate environmentalism by dissociating their employer from polluters or by dissociating environmental values from other values in the financial business. It also shows how they accepted corporate environmentalism by associating it with other business virtues and by associating the employer with polluters. The study identifies rhetorical strategies as a means for employees to construct an understanding of corpor…

The role of negative and positive forms of power in supporting CSR alignment and commitment between large firms and SMEs

2018

Do large firms exert power to shape the CSR behavior of their SME partners?” We answer this question by proposing a model built on the stakeholder theory and the shareholder theory, and go on to explain how this impact influences the commitment of the SME towards their large partner. The model highlights the central role that different forms of power exercised by the large firm play in the process. A survey of 291 SMEs confirms the key hypotheses, including the mediating role of reward power. The effects of coercive power are noteworthy and they illustrate the complex and competing forces at play in influencing CSR behavioral change in SMEs. The research makes a novel contribution to practi…

Playing by the game rules : the business responsibility of Stora Enso

2012

Sustainability in executive remuneration : A missing link towards more sustainable firms?

2021

This paper contributes by showing simultaneously the interlinked challenges of sustainability-based (based on long-term economic, social and environmental targets) executive remuneration and the problems of transparency in remuneration reporting. Our empirical data, analyzed using qualitative content analysis, consists of the published remuneration statements and sustainability reports of 43 Finnish companies reporting according to the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) framework. Our results indicate that comprehensive sustainability remuneration is still rare in Finnish large companies: long-term financial targets are implemented at most companies, but social or environmental targets were …