The Emotional Tightrope Of Downsizing
In: Organizational dynamics: a quarterly review of organizational behavior for professional managers, Band 35, Heft 2, S. 145-159
ISSN: 0090-2616
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In: Organizational dynamics: a quarterly review of organizational behavior for professional managers, Band 35, Heft 2, S. 145-159
ISSN: 0090-2616
In: LEA's organization and management series
In: Administrative science quarterly: ASQ, Band 48, Heft 2, S. 268-305
ISSN: 1930-3815
Companies are increasingly asked to provide innovative solutions to deep-seated problems of human misery, even as economic theory instructs managers to focus on maximizing their shareholders' wealth. In this paper, we assess how organization theory and empirical research have thus far responded to this tension over corporate involvement in wider social life. Organizational scholarship has typically sought to reconcile corporate social initiatives with seemingly inhospitable economic logic. Depicting the hold that economics has had on how the relationship between the firm and society is conceived, we examine the consequences for organizational research and theory by appraising both the 30-year quest for an empirical relationship between a corporation's social initiatives and its financial performance, as well as the development of stakeholder theory. We propose an alternative approach, embracing the tension between economic and broader social objectives as a starting point for systematic organizational inquiry. Adopting a pragmatic stance, we introduce a series of research questions whose answers will reveal the descriptive and normative dimensions of organizational responses to misery.
In: Administrative science quarterly: ASQ ; dedicated to advancing the understanding of administration through empirical investigation and theoretical analysis, Band 48, Heft 2, S. 268-305
ISSN: 0001-8392
In: Politeia. Notizie di Politeia, Band 23, Heft 85-86, S. 379-399
ISSN: 1128-2401
In: [Research report] RR-A263-1