Ideologies in Markets, Organizations, and Business Ethics: Drafting a Map: Introduction to the Special Issue

Abstract

Interest in corporate social responsibility (CSR) has increased exponentially over the last few decades. Many articles and special issues have been published that define and document the roles and responsibilities of business organizations in different contexts (see, for example, Fleming et al.2013; Jack et al.2012; Scherer et al.2009). CSR has expanded in several fields. First, a significant proportion of the research on CSR has focused on the business organization itself, including organizational motivation, internal processes, implementation challenges, and strategic aspects focused on the integration of CSR or ethics in corporate strategy (Behnam and Rasche2009; Singer2010). A second field has focused on the business case for CSR as well as on the alignment of interests between business organizations and stakeholders around so-called win–win solutions (Porter and Kramer2006; Brammer and Millington2008; Caroll and Shabana2010; Schreck2011; Brennan et al.2014).