UNI Interdisciplinary Research Symposium "Get Connected. Make an Impact"

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UNI Interdisciplinary Research Symposium "Get
Connected. Make an Impact"

• Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate
  Citizenship, and Business Ethics
• Adele Queiroz

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Business and Society An Overview of the Field

• The social environment
• The ethical environment
• The public policy environment
• The ecological environment
• The stakeholder environment
• The international environment

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Three interrelated concepts

• Business EthicsQuestion asked What is right
  and wrong, good and bad, and harmful and
  beneficial regarding decisions and actions in
  organizational transactions? (Weiss 2006 p.7)
• Corporate Social ResponsibilityQuestion asked
  Do companies have a social as applied to social
  welfare issues responsibility and, if so, how
  can firms meet and evidence their fulfillment of
  this responsibility? (Hartman 2005 p. 267)
• Corporate/Business CitizenshipQuestion asked
  how do companies understand and manage their
  wider influences on society for the benefit of
  the company and society as a whole? (Andriof and
  McIntosh 2001 p. 14)

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Research Project 1 Motivations for use of
organizational social practices

• Commitment We do it because is the right thing
  to do
• Calculation We do it because it benefits the
  company
• Conformance We do it because this is how we do
  things here
• Caring We do it because we have an emotional
  attachment to this cause/nonprofit

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Research Project 2 The emergence of new
organizational forms

• Traditional organizational forms
• Environmental pressures
• New organizational forms

Language profitability focus social focus when
possible
Language social focus profitability as means to
achieve larger social objectives
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