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Dear ONE-L and SIM Colleagues,

Given our mutual interest in corporate social responsibility (CSR) and related issues, we are emailing to invite you to write a commentary to be considered for publication together with an article on CSR to appear in Industrial and Organizational Psychology Perspectives (IOP). As you may know, IOP is the official journal of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) and, similar to the Academy of Management journals, each issue is distributed to all SIOP members. Thus, it has quickly become a highly visible journal. More information on IOP is available at http://www.siop.org/journal/siopjournal.aspx

IOP's format is quite unique: Each issue includes two focal articles followed by commentaries. Commentary submissions are peer-reviewed and are usually no longer than 10 manuscript pages as a rough upper limit. More detailed guidelines regarding commentary submissions are available at http://www.siop.org/journal/Commentary_Guidelines.aspx Commentaries should be emailed to IOP's Editor, Kevin R. Murphy, at krm10@me.com

Commentaries on each focal article are accepted during a short period of time, and the call for commentaries on the CSR article will be posted online in about 3 months. However, because there is a short timeframe from when the focal article is posted and when commentaries are due, we wanted to give you the heads up so you have plenty of time to work on a commentary if you are interested in doing so. We know IOP's editor is particularly interested in receiving commentary submissions with different perspectives, so diverse points of view, and even those that may not agree with some of the ideas in our focal article, are certainly welcome.

Our article is available at http://mypage.iu.edu/~haguinis/pubs.html (item # 109) and the Abstract is below. We certainly hope you will be interested in submitting a commentary to IOP.

All the best,

--Herman Aguinis and Ante Glavas.

Aguinis, H., & Glavas, A. (in press). Embedded versus peripheral corporate social responsibility: Psychological foundations. Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice.

Abstract

We propose a new conceptualization to make sense of the vast and diverse body of work regarding corporate social responsibility (CSR): (a) embedded CSR and (b) peripheral CSR. This distinction relies on psychological foundations originating primarily in industrial-organizational psychology and related fields (i.e., organizational behavior, human resource management) and allows for a better understanding of when and why CSR is likely to lead to positive outcomes for employees, organizations, and society. Embedded CSR involves an organization's core competencies and integrates CSR within a firm's strategy, routines, and operations and therefore affects all employees. In contrast, peripheral CSR focuses on activities that are not integrated into an organization's strategy, routines, and operations (e.g., philanthropy, volunteering). We use our conceptualization to explain the success of CSR initiatives at GE, IBM, and Intel, and to re-interpret the scholarly CSR literature in the fields of marketing, corporate governance and legal studies, and economics. We also describe how our conceptualization can help bridge the much lamented micro-macro and science-practice gaps and helps guide future CSR research as well as organizational interventions.

Herman Aguinis, Ph.D.

Dean's Research Professor and

Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resources

Director, Institute for Global Organizational Effectiveness

Department of Management and Entrepreneurship

http://mypage.iu.edu/~haguinis/