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Drama and Discounting in the Relational Dynamics of Corporate Social Responsibility

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posted on 2020-12-14, 15:18 authored by Georgiana Grigore, Mike Molesworth, Andreea Vontea, Abdullah Hasan Basnawi, Ogeday Celep, Sylvian Patrick Jesudoss
Employing theoretical resources from Transactional Analysis (TA) and drawing from interviews with managers dealing with social or environmental issues in their role, we explain how CSR activity provides a context for dramas in which actors may ignore, or discount aspects of self, others, and the contexts of their work as they maintain and reproduce the roles of Rescuers, Persecutors and Victims. In doing so, we add to knowledge about CSR by providing an explanation for how the contradictions of CSR are avoided in practice even when actors may be aware of them. Specifically, we theorise how CSR work can produce dramatic stories where adversity is apparently overcome, whilst little is actually achieved at the social level. We also add to the range of psychoanalytic tools used to account for organizational behaviours, emphasizing how TA can explain the relational dynamics of CSR.

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Journal of Business Ethics, (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-020-04591-5

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School of Business

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Journal of Business Ethics

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Springer Verlag

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0167-4544

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2020-07-23

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2020

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2020-08-03

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en

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