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