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Who are We to Them and Why? Corporate Social Responsibility Attributions Framed by Stakeholder Relationships and Organizational Justice

Pamala J. Dillon (Palumbo-Donahue School of Business, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA)

Kirk D. Silvernail (Department of Management, Entrepreneurship, & Technology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, USA)

Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management

ISBN: 978-1-83797-890-8, eISBN: 978-1-83797-889-2

Publication date: 26 September 2024

Abstract

While corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been gaining support for the role it plays in employee outcomes, such as organizational identification (OID), the view of CSR from a social identity perspective is underdeveloped. This conceptual chapter explores the role of social identity processes grounded in organizational justice to develop a model of CSR attributions and the moderating role these attributions play in organizational member outcomes. CSR is understood as the relational processes happening with stakeholders, and these relationships engage specific organizational identity orientations. The social identity process flows from there, resulting in CSR attributions including strategic, relational, and virtuous. Using social identity, organizational identity, and organizational justice, this chapter makes two specific contributions: a CSR attribution typology grounded in organizational justice and the moderating impact of these attributions between activated justice dimensions and resulting organizational member outcomes.

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Acknowledgements

Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank Jeffrey A. Kappen, Associate Professor, Drake University, and Charles C. Manz, Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst, for their contributions to earlier versions of this chapter.

Citation

Dillon, P.J. and Silvernail, K.D. (2024), "Who are We to Them and Why? Corporate Social Responsibility Attributions Framed by Stakeholder Relationships and Organizational Justice", Buckley, M.R., Wheeler, A.R., Baur, J.E. and Halbesleben, J.R.B. (Ed.) Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management (Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management, Vol. 42), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 145-168. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0742-730120240000042005

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Emerald Publishing Limited