Revisiting Corporate Sustainability : Towards a Critically-Reflexive Research Agenda
Type
conference paper
Date Issued
2011-08-12
Author(s)
Wickert, Christopher
;
Schaefer, Stephan
Abstract
Corporations have acknowledged the importance of being perceived as socially responsible. Their actions however frequently show a misalignment between image and actions, which calls for critical research on the substance of corporate sustainability. Scholars of the Critical Management Studies movement have engaged in disclosing the ‘dark side’ of corporate behavior. Yet, we argue this stream of research has focused on deconstructing, and remained at distance to reflexivity and reconstruction. We conceptualize a research framework of critically performative and reflexive practices of deconstruction, reconstruction and self-reflection to advance critical research on CS, addressing shortcomings of current CS research - being overly functionalistic and instrumental - and a CMS agenda, which is often disconnected from economic constraints.
Language
English
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Refereed
Yes
Book title
West meets East : Enlightening, Balancing, Transcending
Publisher
Academy of Management
Publisher place
New York
Start page
40
Event Title
71st Academy of Management Annual Meeting (AOM)
Event Location
San Antonio, USA
Event Date
12.-16.08.2011
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Eprints ID
209052