Integrated and decoupled corporate social performance: Management commitments, external pressures, and corporate ethics practices

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Weaver, GR; Treviño, LK; Cochran, PL
• 署名单位: University of Delaware; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/256975
• 发表日期: 1999
• 页码: 539-552
• 关键词: STAKEHOLDER THEORY; STRATEGIC CHOICE; ORGANIZATIONS; MODEL; determinants; environment; outcomes; bridge

摘要

Corporations can respond to expectations for socially responsible processes and outcomes in organizationally integrated ways or in easily decoupled fashion. This study focused on a particular type of socially responsible organizational process: formal corporate ethics programs. Theory suggests that external pressures for social performance encourage easily decoupled processes but that top management commitments can encourage both easily decoupled and integrated processes. Analysis of survey and archival data generally supported this position. Implications for social performance research, practice, and public policy are discussed.