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2 - Historical Perspectives on Corporate Sustainability
- from Part I - Corporate Sustainability: Approaches
- Edited by Andreas Rasche, Copenhagen Business School, Mette Morsing, Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME), UN GlobalCompact, United Nations, Jeremy Moon, Copenhagen Business School, Arno Kourula, Amsterdam Business School, University of Amsterdam
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- Corporate Sustainability
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- 09 March 2023
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- 30 March 2023, pp 29-53
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This chapter offers three main historical perspectives on corporate sustainability. First, it addresses the ‘what’, ‘how’ and ‘why’ questions of corporate sustainability. It investigates the ‘what’ question through the issues to which corporate sustainability has been addressed; the ‘how’ question through the modes which have been deployed to deliver corporate sustainability; and the ‘why’ question through the rationales that have been offered for corporate sustainability. Second, it investigates the ‘who’ question by unpacking the historical roles and relationships of society, business, government and the natural environment actors. Third, it examines the ‘when’ question through three key phases of corporate sustainability. It presents corporate sustainability in the contexts of: industrialisation in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; the rise of the modern corporation and ‘managerial capitalism’ in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; and rapid internationalisation in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries bringing wider impacts of corporate power and the greater awareness of the Anthropocene and human interdependency. This analysis of three historical phases is illustrated through the experiences of two long-standing companies: Boots, the UK pharmacist, and Tata, the Indian conglomerate.
170 Perceptions of Relevance and Delivery Modes of Research Best Practices Training for Community Health Workers and Promotoras.
- Deepthi Satheesa Varma, Elias Samuels, Meghan Sprioff, Melisa Price, Gustavo Loera, Luisa Murphy, Sergio-Aguilar-Gaxiola, Linda B. Cottler, Susan Murphy
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- Journal of Clinical and Translational Science / Volume 6 / Issue s1 / April 2022
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- 19 April 2022, p. 20
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OBJECTIVES/GOALS: Researchers include community health workers and promotoras (CHW/Ps) on research teams to increase community engagement; however, no formal training on research best practices exists for this group. Study objectives were to examine perceived relevance of a new culturally and linguistically appropriate CHW/P training and optimal delivery modes. METHODS/STUDY POPULATION: We conducted six focus groups (FGs), three each in English and Spanish, at three study sites, University of Florida, University of Michigan, and University of California Davis from February to August 2021. The CHWs/Ps were purposively selected to include diverse age, race/ethnicity, educational level, and work experience. Separate FGs were conducted for CHWs/Ps in English and Spanish as appropriate. All FGs were audio recorded, translated to English from Spanish, transcribed and analyzed using RADaR (Rigorous and Accelerated Data Reduction) technique. RESULTS/ANTICIPATED RESULTS: Forty CHWs/Ps (95% women, mean age 45) participated, with the majority (58%) identifying as Hispanic/Latino. Of the sample, most identified as White (50%) or Black (25%). The proposed training was mentioned as relevant and would help them to be confident, comfortable, knowledgeable and effective in the community. Online training, though advantageous due to its flexibility also reportedly had barriers such as internet access, computer availability and technological know-how of CHWs/Ps. A hybrid training approach, online plus peer-led, was recommended due to the importance of personal guidance by an experienced CHW/P’ especially for a newly recruited CHW/P. DISCUSSION/SIGNIFICANCE: Findings indicated that a culturally and linguistically appropriate CHW/P training that is flexible and easily accessible in its mode of delivery is relevant and useful. In-person guidance to a new CHW/P was reported as an important training component. Poster will include the detailed quotes on relevance, usefulness, and mode of delivery of training.
Chapter 2 - Historical Perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility
- from PART I - STRATEGY AND CSR
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- By Jeremy Moon, Copenhagen Business School, Luisa Murphy, University of Oxford, Jean-Pascal Gond, City University London
- Edited by Andreas Rasche, Copenhagen Business School, Mette Morsing, Copenhagen Business School, Jeremy Moon, Copenhagen Business School
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- Corporate Social Responsibility
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- 28 May 2018
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- 23 March 2017, pp 31-62
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Learning Objectives
• Understand corporate social responsibility (CSR) history in terms of key phenomena: issues, modes, rationales.
• Understand CSR history as a feature of key relationships between society, business and government.
• Apply these understandings in three key phases: industrialisation; the rise of the modern corporation; internationalisation.
• Understand the dynamics of CSR: its contexts, what motivates it and how it changes.
Introduction
As history is about the past, and concerns with CSR are very present, why look backwards? As Henry Ford is thought to have said, ‘History is more or less bunk’. Others contend that history enables lessons about CSR which can be applied today, warning that: ‘those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it’ (Santayana, 1905: 284). History also gives insights into ‘path dependencies’ whereby today's CSR is informed not just by today's agendas, but also by inherited assumptions and approaches. Moreover, an understanding of CSR in history enables you to better distinguish what is recurrent and what is novel, and to understand the significance of its different contexts.
CSR is a moving target. Over the last four millennia it has developed from its ethical underpinnings in the norms of ancient societies and religions governing the behaviour of people engaged in commerce and with wealth. Over the last two hundred years it has developed from industrial philanthropy and paternalism to more integration in the business. In the last hundred years or so it has emerged as a corporate practice, rather than leadership characteristic. Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, it has become internationalised, and responsibility has extended to issues beyond the corporation's workforce and immediate community, throughout their value chains. But the changes in business social responsibility (which we retrospectively call, CSR) over these years, decades and centuries have played out very differently in different places: CSR has a history of uneven development.
So any aspect of history could only offer a limited account of the unfolding and recursions of CSR. Hence, we offer two perspectives on how to conceptualise historical and comparative CSR. The first perspective addresses the ‘what’, ‘how’ and ‘why’ questions about CSR. Thus, we discuss its phenomena: ‘issues’, ‘modes of practice’ and ‘underlying rationales’. Second, we discuss the ‘who’ questions of CSR, focusing on the key types of CSR actor: society, business and governmental.