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CSR Needs CPR: Corporate Sustainability and Politics
Thomas Lyon
1
Magali Delmas
2
John W. Maxwell
3
Pratima Bansal
4
Mireille Chiroleu-Assouline
5, 6, 7
Patricia Crifo
8
Rodophe Durand
9
Jean-Pascal Gond
10
Andrew King
11
Michael Lenox
12
Michael Toffel
13
David Vogel
14
Frank Wijen
15
8
EconomiX
Thomas P. Lyon 1
Author Employer institution : University of Michigan [Ann Arbor]
Magali Delmas 2
Author Employer institution : UCLA Anderson School of Management
John W. Maxwell 3
Author
Pratima Bansal 4
Author
Mireille Chiroleu-Assouline 5, 6, 7
Author IdHAL : mireille-chiroleu-assouline ORCID : https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8810-4258
Patricia Crifo 8
Author IdHAL : patricia-crifo
Rodophe Durand 9
Author Employer institution : Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales
Jean-Pascal Gond 10
Author
Andrew King 11
Author IdHAL : andrew-king-soleil ORCID : https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8542-1354
Michael Lenox 12
Author
Michael Toffel 13
Author
David Vogel 14
Author
Frank Wijen 15
Author Employer institution : Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
1
University of Michigan [Ann Arbor] (500 Church Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1090 - United States)
- University of Michigan System (Michigan - United States)
2
Anderson Graduate School of Management, UCLA (United States)
- UCLA - University of California [Los Angeles] ( Los Angeles, Californie 90095 - United States)
- University of California (United States)
3
Indiana University System (United States)
5
PJSE - Paris Jourdan Sciences Economiques (48 boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris - France)
- UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne : UMR8545 (12 place du Panthéon - 75231 Paris Cedex 05 - France)
- ENS Paris - École normale supérieure - Paris (45, Rue d'Ulm - 75230 Paris cedex 05 - France)
- PSL - Université Paris sciences et lettres (60 rue Mazarine 75006 Paris - France)
- EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales (54, boulevard Raspail 75006 Paris - France)
- ENPC - École des Ponts ParisTech (École des Ponts ParisTech 6-8 avenue Blaise-Pascal Cité Descartes 77455 Champs-sur-Marne Marne-la-Vallée cedex 2 - France)
- CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France)
- INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement : USC1336 (France)
6
PSE - Paris School of Economics (48 boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris - France)
- ENPC - École des Ponts ParisTech (École des Ponts ParisTech 6-8 avenue Blaise-Pascal Cité Descartes 77455 Champs-sur-Marne Marne-la-Vallée cedex 2 - France)
- ENS Paris - École normale supérieure - Paris (45, Rue d'Ulm - 75230 Paris cedex 05 - France)
- PSL - Université Paris sciences et lettres (60 rue Mazarine 75006 Paris - France)
- UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (12 place du Panthéon - 75231 Paris Cedex 05 - France)
- CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France)
- EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales (54, boulevard Raspail 75006 Paris - France)
- INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (France)
7
UP1 - Université Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne (12 place du Panthéon - 75231 Paris Cedex 05 - France)
- UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (12 place du Panthéon - 75231 Paris Cedex 05 - France)
- Pres Hesam (France)
8
EconomiX (Bâtiment G
200 Avenue de la République
92001 NANTERRE CEDEX - France)
- UPN - Université Paris Nanterre : UMR7235 (200 avenue de la République - 92001 Nanterre cedex - France)
- CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique : UMR7235 (France)
9
HEC Paris - Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (1, rue de la Libération - 78351 Jouy en Josas cedex - France)
10
Cass Business School - City University London (United Kingdom)
- City University London (Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB - United Kingdom)
11
Tuck School of Business (100 Tuck Hall Hanover, NH, 03755, USA - United States)
- Dartmouth College [Hanover] (Hanover, NH 03755 USA - United States)
12
Darden School of Business (United States)
13
Harvard Business School (Soldiers Field Park Boston MA 02163 USA - United States)
- Harvard University [Cambridge] (Massachusetts Hall, Cambridge, MA 02138 - United States)
14
LBNL - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory [Berkeley] (1 Cyclotron Rd. MS 50A-1148, Berkeley, CA 94720 - United States)
15
Rotterdam School of Management of Erasmus University (Netherlands)
Abstract : Corporate social responsibility has gone mainstream, and many companies have taken meaningful steps towards a more sustainable future. Yet global environmental indicators continue to worsen, and individual corporate efforts may be hitting the point of diminishing returns. Voluntary action by the private sector is not a panacea-regulatory action by the public sector remains necessary. Such public sector progress will be more likely if it is supported by influential segments of the business community. Recent court rulings in the U.S. make it easy for companies to hide their political activities from the public, yet the indicators of CSR used by ratings agencies and socially responsible investment funds mostly ignore corporate political action. We argue that it is time for CSR metrics to be expanded to critically assess and evaluate firms based on the sustainability impacts of their public policy positions. To enable such assessments, firms need to become as transparent about their political activity as many have become about their CSR efforts, and CSR rating services and ethical investment funds need to demand such information from firms and include an assessment of corporate political activity in their ratings. † We thank the Albert and Elaine Borchard Foundation for their generous financial support.
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- DOI : 10.1177/0008125618778854
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Thomas Lyon, Magali Delmas, John W. Maxwell, Pratima Bansal, Mireille Chiroleu-Assouline, et al.. CSR Needs CPR: Corporate Sustainability and Politics. California Management Review, University of California Press, 2018, 60 (4), pp.5 - 24. ⟨10.1177/0008125618778854⟩. ⟨halshs-01846042⟩
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