Post-Partnership Strategies for Defining Corporate Responsibility: The Business Social Compliance Initiative
While cross-sectoral partnerships are frequently presented as a way to achieve sustainable development, some corporations that first tried using the strategy are now changing direction. Growing tired of what are, in their eyes, inefficient and unproductive cross-sectoral partnerships, firms are star...
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Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
2007
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Journal of business ethics
Jahr: 2007, Band: 70, Heft: 2, Seiten: 175-189 |
weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Corporate Responsibility
B codes of conduct B Institutional Theory B actor-network theory (ANT) B supplier relations B Partnership B Business Social Compliance Initiative (BSCI) B garment industry |
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Zusammenfassung: | While cross-sectoral partnerships are frequently presented as a way to achieve sustainable development, some corporations that first tried using the strategy are now changing direction. Growing tired of what are, in their eyes, inefficient and unproductive cross-sectoral partnerships, firms are starting to form post-cross-sectoral partnerships (‚post-partnerships’) open exclusively to corporations. This paper examines one such post-partnership project, the Business Social Compliance Initiative (BSCI), to analyse the possibility of post-partnerships establishing stable definitions of ‚corporate responsibility’. We do this by creating a theoretical framework based on actor-network theory (ANT) and institutional theory. Using this framework, we show that post-partnerships suffer from the paradox of striving to marginalise those stakeholders whose support they need␣for establishing stable definitions of ‚corporate responsibility’. We conclude by discussing whether or not post-partnership strategies, despite this paradox, can be expected to establish stable definitions of ‚corporate responsibility’. |
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ISSN: | 1573-0697 |
Enthält: | Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s10551-006-9104-7 |