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Cynthia A. Williams

Corporate governance

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An Emerging Third Way - The Erosion Of The Anglo-American Shareholder Value Construct, Cynthia A. Williams, John M. Conley Jul 2016

An Emerging Third Way - The Erosion Of The Anglo-American Shareholder Value Construct, Cynthia A. Williams, John M. Conley

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A Tale Of Two Trajectories, Cynthia A. Williams Jul 2016

A Tale Of Two Trajectories, Cynthia A. Williams

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Putting The S Back In Corporate Social Responsibility: A Multi-Level Theory Of Social Change In Organizations, Ruth V. Aguilera, Cynthia A. Williams, Deborah Rupp, Jyoti Ganapathi Jun 2004

Putting The S Back In Corporate Social Responsibility: A Multi-Level Theory Of Social Change In Organizations, Ruth V. Aguilera, Cynthia A. Williams, Deborah Rupp, Jyoti Ganapathi

Cynthia A. Williams

This paper provides a multi-level theoretical model to understand why business organizations are increasingly engaging in corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives, and thereby exhibiting the potential to exert positive social change. Our model integrates theories of micro-level organizational justice, meso-level corporate governance and macro-level varieties of capitalisms. Using a theoretical framework presented in the justice literature, we argue that organizations are pressured to engage in CSR by many different actors, each driven by instrumental, relational and moral motives. These actors are nested within four levels of analysis: individual, organizational, national and transnational. After discussing the motives affecting actors at each …