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One of the main objectives of the companies is to serve society. Companies, in fulfilling this objective, managers and employees, government, partners and customers are obliged to observe. Intense competition in the day, these elements do not sufficiently take into account firms, economic, environmental, cultural and social development can not be expected to lend support to continue their lives as well be considered. Study, in the last days of the giant car companies, vehicle recall in their understanding of social responsibility has been taken in. © Medwell Journals, 2010.

"Im Blickpunkt der qualitativ ausgerichteten Studie stehen 15 hauptsächlich große
österreichische Unternehmen, die sich im Bereich CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility)
engagieren. Zwei Hauptfragen stehen im Mittelpunkt: 1.) Warum und wie wird CSR im
Unternehmensalltag praktiziert? 2.) Ist der Begriff "Familie" im Zusammenhang mit CSR
präsent? Dazu wurden 15 Personen im problemzentrierten Interview (PZI) befragt, die in
ihrem Unternehmen für CSR zuständig sind. Das Kriterium der Stichprobenziehung ist
inhaltlich und fokussiert auf österreichische Unternehmen, die (nach Definition der Vorstudie
aus 2006) familienrelevante externe Maßnahmen setzen. Die Interviews wurden mittels
qualitativer Inhaltsanalyse ausgewertet. Die Studie liefert einen a) subjektbezogenen (nicht
repräsentativen) Einblick in Einstellungen, Erfahrungen und Wünsche sowie b) Hypothesen
zu wichtigen Faktoren für das Gelingen von CSR. Die Analyse eruierte vier theoretische
Dimensionen, die hier entscheidend sind: Authentizität, Kontinuität, Commitment und
Emotionalität."[Autorenreferat]

Scholars increasingly have argued that the future effectiveness and legitimacy of firms' corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities are dependent on more transparent forms of lobbying to ensure firms' policy positions are aligned with their CSR commitments. Very little empirical work, however, has systematically analyzed firms' lobbying disclosures or examined how these firms coordinate their lobbying and CSR activities. We address these empirical questions by analyzing the CSR reports of 150 corporations from Germany, the UK and the US over an 18‐year period and by conducting interviews with the CSR managers of these firms. We find that corporations have become more transparent about their public policy advocacy over time, thus acknowledging that lobbying is a CSR issue. For most firms, however, this commitment to transparency appears to be largely ceremonial. Few firms disclose the specific policy positions they advocate or sufficiently coordinate the work of their lobbying and CSR units to foster greater alignment of these activities. These modest changes in lobbying transparency appear to be driven by legitimacy concerns and, in a few instances, by governance gaps firms perceive to be relevant to their future business interests.

AbstractScholars increasingly have argued that the future effectiveness and legitimacy of firms' corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities are dependent on more transparent forms of lobbying to ensure firms' policy positions are aligned with their CSR commitments. Very little empirical work, however, has systematically analyzed firms' lobbying disclosures or examined how these firms coordinate their lobbying and CSR activities. We address these empirical questions by analyzing the CSR reports of 150 corporations from Germany, the UK and the US over an 18‐year period and by conducting interviews with the CSR managers of these firms. We find that corporations have become more transparent about their public policy advocacy over time, thus acknowledging that lobbying is a CSR issue. For most firms, however, this commitment to transparency appears to be largely ceremonial. Few firms disclose the specific policy positions they advocate or sufficiently coordinate the work of their lobbying and CSR units to foster greater alignment of these activities. These modest changes in lobbying transparency appear to be driven by legitimacy concerns and, in a few instances, by governance gaps firms perceive to be relevant to their future business interests.

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