The View from Organizational Studies: A Discourse-Based Understanding of Corporate Social Responsibility and Communication

The Handbook of Communication and Corporate Social Responsibility

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 534-549

  Grant, David ^a   Nyberg, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Critical management research from interpretive cultural studies; CSR activities, debate on whether they are good for business; CSR identity processes internal to organization; CSR politicized arena, competing for power, resources and legitimacy; CSR, field of organizational discourse studies (ODS); Danger of supporting arguments in favor of CSR, as being self interest; Handbook of communications and corporate social responsibility; Hardy and Phillips' framework, of power dynamics and CSR; Organizational studies and discourse based understanding of CSR

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886003274     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118083246.ch27     Document Type: Chapter

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