Corporate social irresponsibilityreview and conceptual boundaries

  1. Riera, Marta 1
  2. Iborra, María 1
  1. 1 Universitat de València, Valencia, Spain
Zeitschrift:
European journal of management and business economics

ISSN: 2444-8494,  2444-8451

Datum der Publikation: 2017

Ausgabe: 26

Nummer: 2

Seiten: 146-162

Art: Artikel

DOI: 10.1108/EJMBE-07-2017-009 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen Access editor

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Zusammenfassung

The purpose of this paper is to carry out a review of the academic literature about corporate social irresponsibility (CSIR) highlighting aspects that help us to define socially irresponsible behaviour and its relationship with socially responsible behaviour. Through a Boolean search of studies related to terms of irresponsibility undertaken from 1956 to October 2016, the authors develop a review of the literature focussing on the main perspectives used for defining the term of CSIR. The paper provides a framework of three main dimensions for understanding the differences in the literature that defines CSIR: who defines irresponsible behaviour, an impartial observer or a specific group of stakeholders, whether it is a firm strategy or a punctual action and which is the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and CSIR, continuity vs orthogonal relationship. The paper provides and extensive and original review of a key construct, CSIR, and develops some insights about its antecedents and consequences. The authors try to provide light to the contradictory situation where a growing interest in CSR and the increase in voluntary commitments adopted by company leaders incorporating CSR into their strategies are, paradoxically, increasingly associated with CSIR

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