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CSR and Communication: Examining how CSR Shapes, and is Shaped by, Talk and Text
This is a reminder about our special issue call for papers at Business & Society (due December 2016) and an announcement about our exciting special issue workshop to be held immediately prior to the EGOS conference in Naples, Italy this summer (July 2016).
The special issue and workshop seeks to expand and enrich the body of research on CSR and communication (for a recent overview, see Crane & Glozer, forthcoming). Specifically, it aims to examine the role of talk and text (including verbal, visual and written communication) in shaping the nature and meaning of CSR – and how CSR meanings in turn shape such communication. This may include scholarly contributions that will extend our understanding of how rhetoric, narrative, discourse, sensemaking, and other frameworks of meaning are involved in CSR communication.
In particular we are seeking to develop research that explores the prospective, anticipatory, and formative role of communication for CSR that has, to date, tended to remain implicit or under-theorized in the CSR and communication literature. That is, communicative practices can play an important and constitutive role in the field of CSR, for instance, in constituting networked relationships between business firms and larger society (Castello, Morsing & Schultz, 2013; Schoeneborn & Trittin, 2013), in driving organizational and social change (Christensen, Morsing & Thyssen, 2013; Haack, Schoeneborn & Wickert, 2012), in forming new subject relations in the field of CSR (Caruana & Crane, 2008), and enabling sensemaking about what CSR can and cannot be (Basu & Palazzo, 2008). In other words, we believe there is a need to understand better what communication does to CSR and what CSR does to communication.
More details about the special issue including suggested questions and themes for submitted manuscripts can be found in the attachment or on the Business & Society website. The deadline for submission of full papers is December 12, 2016 and authors should submit their manuscripts through ScholarOne Manuscripts at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/bas.
Special Issue Workshop
To help authors prepare their manuscripts for submission, a Special Issue Workshop will be held on July 6, 2016, prior to the European Group of Organizational Studies (EGOS) Colloquium 2016 in Naples, Italy (more information can be found on the EGOS website). The workshop will be facilitated by the Special Issue editors, and will include contributions from leading CSR and communication scholars Jana Costas (European University Viadrina, Germany), Jean-Pascal Gond (Cass Business School, UK), Timothy R. Kuhn (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA), Dennis K. Mumby (University of North Carolina, USA), Guido Palazzo (University of Lausanne, Switzerland), Andreas G. Scherer (University of Zurich, Switzerland), and Steen Vallentin (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark)
Authors are invited to present and discuss their papers during the workshop and to receive feedback for further improvement of their manuscripts. Acceptance for presentation at the workshop does not guarantee acceptance of the paper for publication in Business & Society.
To be considered for the workshop, authors will need to submit a short paper (max. 10 double-spaced pages, incl. references and exhibits) via the EGOS website by March 31, 2016. Note that submission of a short paper to the workshop is not a precondition for submission of a full paper to the Special Issue.
This is a wonderful opportunity to get early stage feedback on your work-in-progress as well as to hear from a team of leading international scholars about current trends and opportunities in developing communication-centered perspectives on CSR.
If you would like to know more about the special issue or the workshop, please do not hesitate to contact any us in the guest editor team. We look forward to hearing from you!
Guest editors:
Andrew Crane, Schulich School of Business
Mette Morsing, Copenhagen Business School
Dennis Schoeneborn, Copenhagen Business School
References
Basu, K., & Palazzo, G. (2008). Corporate social responsibility: a process model of sensemaking. Academy of Management Review, 33(1): 122-136.
Caruana, R., & Crane, A. (2008). Constructing consumer responsibility: exploring the role of corporate communications. Organization Studies, 29: 1495-1519.
Castelló, I., Morsing, M., & Schultz, F. (2013). Communicative dynamics and the polyphony of corporate social responsibility in the network society. Journal of Business Ethics, 118(4), 683-694.
Christensen, L.T., Morsing M., & Thyssen, O. (2013). CSR as aspirational talk. Organization 20(3), 372–393.
Crane, A., & Glozer, S. (forthcoming): Researching CSR communication: Themes, opportunities and challenges. Journal of Management Studies. DOI: 10.1111/joms.12196.
Haack, P., Schoeneborn, D., & Wickert, C. (2012). Talking the talk, moral entrapment, creeping commitment? Exploring narrative dynamics in corporate responsibility standardization. Organization Studies, 33(5-6), 815-845.
Schoeneborn, D., & Trittin, H. (2013). Transcending transmission: Towards a constitutive perspective on CSR communication. Corporate Communications: An International Journal, 18(2), 193-211.
(See attached file: CSR and communication CFP_Final_updated1.docx)
Andrew Crane
George R. Gardiner Professor of Business Ethics
Director, Centre of Excellence in Responsible Business
Co-Editor, Business & Society
Schulich School of Business, Room N212,
York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto,
Ontario M3J 1P3
Canada
Tel: +1 (416) 736-2100 ext 30190
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