by Timothy Devinney
Despite differences of opinion about the efficacy of corporate social responsibility, there is a general consensus among academics, policy makers, and practitioners that corporations operate with a social sanction that requires that they operate within the norms and mores of the societies in which they exist. I argue that the notion of a socially responsible corporation is potentially an oxymoron because of the naturally conflicted nature of the corporation. This has profound implications for our understanding of corporate social responsibility, what we view as the relevant issues relating to it, and how we investigate its role and impact.
View more on this in the video or via the article: Is the Socially Responsible Corporation a Myth? The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Corporate Social Responsibility, Academy of Management Perspectives, 23(2): 44-56 (2009).
Author: Timothy Devinney
Timothy Devinney is a Professor and Chair of International Business at Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester. Before that he was University Leadership Chair, Professor of International Business and former Pro-Dean of Research and Innovation at the University of Leeds (UK), Professor and Professorial Research Fellow at the Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM) and Director of the Centre for Corporate Change and the AGSM Executive MBA. He has held positions at Vanderbilt, UCLA, Chicago, CBS and HKUST.
Before joining the AGSM he held positions on the faculties of The University of Chicago, Vanderbilt University and UCLA and has been a visiting faculty member at numerous universities in Europe and Asia, and taught at many others. He has published a dozen books, including Managing the Global Corporation and The Myth of the Ethical Consumer (with P. Auger and G. Eckhardt) and more than 100 articles in leading journals.
In 2008 he was the first recipient in management of an Alexander von Humboldt Research Award (Forschungspreis) and was Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Fellow. He is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business (AIB), ANZAM, Academy of Social Sciences, the Royal Academy of Arts. European International Business Academy (EIBA) and the Advanced Institute of Management (UK). He is the 2018 winner of the Academy of Management's (AOM) Practice Impact Award and the 2019 Service to the Global Academic Community Award. In 2021 he was elected a Fellow of the AOM.
Timothy was the co-editor of the Academy of Management Perspectives and Advances in International Management as well as being on the editorial review boards of 10 other journals and a Director of SSRN's International Management and Sustainability and Social Policy Research Networks.
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