scholarly journals Navigating a defining moment: COVID-19 and curatorial thinking

FACETS ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 1621-1627
Author(s):  
Madeleine Mant ◽  
Samantha Cutrara
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Defining Moment ◽  
Defining Moments ◽  
Critical Moment ◽  
Interdisciplinary Framework ◽  
Interdisciplinary Thinking

The COVID-19 pandemic has engendered a critical moment in education. Questions of equity, engagement, and interaction have been brought into sharper focus as students’ homes became their classrooms. There is a demonstrated need for interdisciplinary thinking, enabling students to work with the resources they have at hand, and helping learners orient themselves in place and time. Defining Moments Canada/Moments Déterminant Canada, using the interdisciplinary framework of curatorial thinking, encourages students to make sense of information, more effectively create a meaningful story, and build a stronger sense of social responsibility and awareness. This framework is operationalized using the S.A.S.S. pedagogy—Selecting, Archiving, Sense-Making, and Sharing—through which students find their personal way into a research question and demonstrate their learning while considering narrative intent, evidence limitations, and their own role as a historical actor. This integrative, critical, and interdisciplinary focus is an approach to a (post)pandemic world that prioritizes creative student responsiveness to upcoming challenges.

Managing the adverse effect of supply chain risk on corporate reputation: The mediating role of corporate social responsibility practices

2021 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 251-261
Author(s):  
Nitya P. Singh
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Corporate Reputation ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Supply Chain Risk Management ◽  
Supply Chain Risk ◽  
Corporate Social

Within the last decade, research has focussed on corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices as a strategic tool that enables firms to improve stakeholder perception, brand image and corporate reputation. However, one area that remains understudied is the role played by CSR practices in managing corporate reputation under conditions of supply chain risk. To answer this research question, we conduct a literature review and develop the corresponding hypothesis. We test our hypothesis using quantitative analysis of both primary and secondary data collected from organizations dispersed globally. The results highlight that under conditions of supply chain network disruption risk, CSR practices play an important role in enabling firms to manage the negative impact of such risk drivers on corporate reputation. The study further suggests that CSR practices positively impact supply chain risk management (SCRM) practices and are a necessary condition for SCRM practices to be effective in improving corporate reputation of organizations.

Making sense of continuous development of digital infrastructures

2021 ◽  
pp. 026839622110466
Author(s):  
Karen Osmundsen ◽  
Bendik Bygstad
Keyword(s):  
Research Question ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Interaction Patterns ◽  
Longitudinal Case Study ◽  
Learning And Development ◽  
Continuous Development ◽  
Organizational Contexts ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Digital Infrastructure ◽  
Definition Of

Continuous development extends the agile approach and focuses on bringing valuable services to users with the aim of achieving a continuous flow of learning and development in short cycles. The objective of this work is to theorize the idea of continuous development in the context of digital infrastructure evolution and explore the organizational interactions underlying continuous development. By drawing on literature on digital infrastructure theory and continuous development as it has emerged as an idea from the DevOps thinking expanded from agile, we outline main characteristics of continuous development and propose a theoretical definition of continuous development in organizational contexts. Then, in answering our research question “which patterns of interactions can be identified in the continuous development of digital infrastructures?”, we conducted a longitudinal case study at a Norwegian grid company and explored how a specific digital infrastructure evolved through continuous development. We identified generic interaction patterns with two cycles of sense-giving and sense-making between organizational actors, enabling the continuous development of the digital infrastructure. Our findings and model of interaction patterns offer a nuanced perspective on both digital infrastructure evolution and established views of sense-making and sense-giving mechanisms, as well as new ways to think about digitalization in incumbent firms.

scholarly journals How realism promotes better social outcomes than empiricism and subjective idealism

2019 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 105-123
Author(s):  
Juan Pablo Stegmann
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Social Outcomes ◽  
Modern Thinking ◽  
Interdisciplinary Thinking

This paper proposes a conceptual model that fosters interdisciplinary thinking and critical thinking by connecting the three main philosophical traditions that impact modern thinking – British empiricism, Continental Europe subjective idealism, and realism – with their epistemological foundations and in combination with modern social disciplines: ethics, social responsibility, and political economy. Through a statistical analysis this paper shows which of the three epistemologies produces better social outcomes.

scholarly journals How Service Learning Can Impact Medical Students’ Perceptions of Social Responsibility

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. p1
Author(s):  
Sherry A. McDonald ◽  
Chris Cale Cale ◽  
Sunddip Panesar-Aguilar ◽  
Michelle McCraney
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Community Integration ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Educational Method ◽  
Liaison Committee ◽  
Practice Of Medicine ◽  
Eye Opening

As criticism intensifies regarding healthcare disparities, the Liaison Committee for Medical Education has added accrediting standards mandating Service Learning (SL) in their curriculum. SL is a viable educational method to enhance social responsibility and other elements of professional identity. The problem of implementing highly effective SL projects in medical education was addressed in this study. Kiely’s model of transformational SL was used in this basic qualitative study to examine 10 medical students’ experiences during an SL project. The research question for the study was focused on the students’ descriptions of their experiences to understand how they perceived changes in themselves resulting from participation in SL. Findings from the data collected with semistructured interviews indicated that medical students described SL experiences as beneficial for community integration, educating others, and gratification. They expressed disappointment that they did not know the results of their projects. They related SL experiences that were eye-opening for them and stated that SL influenced their development of compassion as well as their intent to serve their community in their future practice of medicine. The resulting research study consisted of a curriculum plan for a required, credit-bearing SL project. The research contributes to positive social change by the intentional design of a transformative SL curriculum to foster social responsibility development.

Clusters as Entrepreneurial Ecosystems for Corporate Social Responsibility in SMEs

2016 ◽  
pp. 72-87
Author(s):  
M. Isabel Sánchez-Hernández
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Regional Government ◽  
Entrepreneurial Ecosystems ◽  
Responsible Behavior ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Corporate Social

The research question in this chapter is whether clusters are good entrepreneurial ecosystems to enhance social and responsible behavior in SMEs at regional level. We will address institutional efforts in Corporate Social Responsibility carried out in the Autonomous Region of Extremadura in Spain as case study because the regional government, with the aim of promoting business cooperation to enhance competitiveness, decided to develop a clustering policy for SMEs in the region. Additionally, since 2010 the region has developed its own plan for the promotion of responsibility at regional level. To answer the question we have carried out focus groups with representative businesses´ managers belonging to the existing and operative clusters in Extremadura at the moment.

scholarly journals Importance of professional ethics and corporate social responsibility within business studies curriculum within context global economy

2020 ◽  
Vol 74 ◽  
pp. 04004
Author(s):  
Tatjana Daudisa ◽  
Velga Vevere
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Business Students ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
The Future ◽  
Mba Curriculum ◽  
Corporate Social

Businesses today have to juggle between the need to survive due to increased competition and the pressure to become socially and environmentally responsible business entity. Consistent with the intensification of discussion about the importance of embracing CSR among businesses, the issues now has expanded to the concern over the future of CSR. In view of this, the future of CSR will depend on how the future generations perceive the importance of embracing CSR in business operations. The purpose of the current study is to research the business students’ perception of importance of ethics and corporate social responsibility courses within their curriculum. The quantitative research design is applied in the study – the target group survey using 7-point Likert scale questionnaire, nonprobability purposive sampling (n=131). The research question posed in the current article is the following: Does business students’ attitude towards CSR and ethics depend upon taking these courses as part of BBA and MBA curriculum? The result of the study – the mapping of students perceptions and attitudes towards ethical aspects taught at the university. The practical implications of the current study are of improvement of BBA and MBA curriculum to meet the needs of the 21st century in the globalized business environment.

scholarly journals Selected aspects of corporate social responsibility in maritime freight services on the example of selected courier companies

2018 ◽  
Vol 58 ◽  
pp. 01003
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Budziewicz-Guźlecka ◽  
Anna Drab-Kurowska
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Logical Inference ◽  
Inference Method ◽  
Transport Services ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
Reduction Of Co2 ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Environmental Activities

The aim of the article is to present the activities of corporate social responsibility in the CEP industry, with particular emphasis on maritime freight services. The article will present good practices and environmental activities proposed by the leaders of the CEP industry. An example may be the new "green services" of sea freight, which allow for reduction of CO2 emissions. The article puts forward the following research hypothesis - Raising awareness in the CSR area in the CEP industry will allow the implementation of environmental activities. In reference to the assumed goal and the hypothesis adopted in the article, the following research question was posed - what specific CSR implementation tools should be adopted by the CEP industry to actively shape environmental activities in maritime freight services? In an attempt to answer the question, the article first addressed the aspects of corporate social responsibility at CSR 3.0 level. Next, the focus was on presenting the results of the analysis of the maritime freight services offered by the leaders of the CEP industry. The following research methods were used in the article: method of critical analysis of literature, method of observing the proceedings of the entities examined, logical inference method, method of analysis and synthesis.The key element of the article is the presentation of proposals for actions aimed at intensifying activities strengthening maritime transport services through activities in the area of CSR.

Causes of Career-Defining Moments

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 110-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen Ann Ensher ◽  
Troy R. Nielson ◽  
Wesley Kading
Keyword(s):  
Career Decisions ◽  
Diverse Group ◽  
Spiritual Experiences ◽  
Career Experiences ◽  
Defining Moment ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
Defining Moments ◽  
Future Career ◽  
Relationship Experiences ◽  
Tremendous Impact

The purpose of this research was to develop a typology of career-defining moments in order to better understand the nature of this phenomenon. A career-defining moment is a point in time that substantially alters the trajectory of one’s career. We conducted interviews with a diverse group of 18 executives to learn about their career-defining moments. A typology of five distinct categories of career-defining moments and their respective subthemes emerged from the interviews. The five major types of career-defining moments are as follows: (a) anticipated transition events, (b) unanticipated transition events, (c) insight experiences, (d) relationship experiences, and (e) spiritual experiences. This study adds to the theoretical understanding of career experiences and provides a foundation for a largely untapped stream of inquiry for future researchers. Career-defining moments are important as they influence future career decisions and have a tremendous impact on the individuals making those decisions and their organizations.

scholarly journals Is Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) a New Alternative to Governance Challenges of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs)?

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 28-46
Author(s):  
Davit Maisuradze ◽  
Giorgi Narmania ◽  
Magda Lazishvili ◽  
Mariam Tkeshelashvili ◽  
Irakli Shakiashvili
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Current Theory ◽  
Alternative Theory ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Governance Model ◽  
Governance Challenges ◽  
Corporate Social

AbstractThis article aims to analyze the current theory of managing the State-owned Enterprises (SOEs) with the use of Single Ownership Entity and to suggest alternative solution, particularly, managing SOEs with Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).After a thorough review of the literature analyzing the connection between CSR and SOEs, the article states that there are important missing points in the previous research and academic debate: (1) no scholar directly emphasizes CSR as the answer to the problems of SOEs; (2) there is no research conducted on the comparison of Single Ownership Entity and CSR, evaluating their potential positive effects on SOEs; (3) accordingly, academic literature does not discuss the ways and tools of implementation of CSR in SOEs.The article aims to fill this gap and emphasize the links between CSR and SOEs. Due to the challenges, goals and ownership structure of SOEs, CSR is the most suitable corporate governance model for SOEs and its effective implementation is more vital than the execution of recommendations on creating the single ownership entity suggested by international organizations. The research question of the article is to compare managing the SOEs with the use of the CSR model (Alternative Theory) to single ownership mechanism established by OECD (Current Theory) and find out whether CSR is a better solution to the existing problems of SOEs.Finally, the article discusses the institutional context of SOEs based on the examples of the countries of Eastern and Central Europe where the problems regarding SOEs remain remarkable; presents the balance of interests of stakeholders’ in SOEs in connection to Alternative and Current Theories; and combines analysis, research and recommendations of international organizations and academia towards the problems of SOEs.

Can corporate social responsibility deter consumer dysfunctional behavior?

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (7) ◽  
pp. 729-738
Author(s):  
Alexis M. Allen ◽  
Todd Green ◽  
Michael K. Brady ◽  
John Peloza
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Consumer Perceptions ◽  
Google Trends ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Negative Events ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Dysfunctional Behavior ◽  
Corporate Social

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how and when a reputation for corporate social responsibility (CSR) can deter dysfunctional consumer behaviors (DCBs) such as shoplifting or negative word-of-mouth (WOM) in response to firm failures. The authors predict that congruency of the CSR activities and the basis for the firm failure (e.g. environmental protection, environmental harm) provides protection for firms while incongruency (e.g. environmental protection, social harm) does not. The authors base this prediction on the process of retroactive attribution and sense-making. Design/methodology/approach Across two studies the research finds support that a reputation for CSR can deter consumer dysfunctional behavior. Study 1 uses an experimental design with a Mturk sample, and a behavioral outcome using an overpayment situation, to examine when consumers will act honestly and recognize overpayment. Study 2 uses secondary data, across three novel data sources (Google trends data, an existing data set of consumer perceptions of CSR and Factiva to uncover press coverage of negative firm events). Study 2 examines how CSR reputation impacts consumers’ participation in negative WOM in response to firm failures. Findings Study 1 finds support for CSR congruency as a protection mechanism against dysfunctional behavior in response to negative events. The authors find that dysfunctional behaviors in conditions of congruency, while incongruent and a control condition do not provide such protections. Study 2 supports these findings using Google trends data in the form of online negative WOM. The authors find that when firms are known for their social performance, negative events in the social domain result in significantly lower levels of negative WOM. Originality/value The current paper makes the novel prediction that consumers will use a current negative event (corporate social irresponsibility) to re-evaluate previous CSR. Thus, in contrast with prior research, the authors argue that a negative event is not affected by previous CSR but that previous CSR is affected by a negative event. Furthermore, the authors posit that the congruency between the transgression and previous CSR moderates consumer perceptions, such that incongruent CSR and transgression contexts lead to increased DCBs through consumers’ retroactive sense-making process.

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