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- Title
Shared Value Creation in Equivocal CSR Environments: A Configuration Approach.
- Authors
Aronson, Olivia; Henriques, Irene
- Abstract
Organizations are increasingly expected by their stakeholders to tackle the "wicked" problems of society. These new pressures have created a highly equivocal corporate social responsibility (CSR) environment whereby firms face competing stakeholder perspectives regarding their CSR strategy. To reduce CSR environmental equivocality and determine a CSR strategy, organizations need to effectively and efficiently identify, evaluate, and exploit CSR initiatives to create financial and social value (i.e., shared value). In this paper, we explain how organizations can optimize their shared value creation and promote the construction of intersubjective agreement, which can reduce CSR environmental equivocality. Theory is put forth that explains how the proper alignment of an organization's level of CSR environmental equivocality, which is comprised of varying amounts of "unknowingness," corporate entrepreneurship strategy, which promotes experimentation, and stakeholder engagement process, which facilitates information gathering and dissemination, supports the construction of intersubjective agreement. A typology of organizational shared value creation in equivocal CSR environments with four "ideal types" of organizations—Container, Explorer, Embracer, and Manager—is presented and an organization's choice among and movement between types discussed.
- Subjects
SOCIAL responsibility of business; BUSINESS ethics; SOCIAL responsibility; CORPORATE sustainability; CONFIGURATION management; STAKEHOLDERS; VALUE creation; ENTREPRENEURSHIP
- Publication
Journal of Business Ethics, 2023, Vol 187, Issue 4, p713
- ISSN
0167-4544
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10551-022-05260-5