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Responsabilité et/ou irresponsabilité sociale d'entreprise? Dr Jekyll et/ou Mr Hyde?

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  • Marc Ingham

    (BSB - Burgundy School of Business (BSB) - Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Dijon Bourgogne (ESC))

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While there are numerous publications on corporate social responsibility (CSR), few articles deal with corporate social irresponsibility (CSIr) and/or the links that may exist between CSR and CSIr. This "essay" paper presents a literature review on these topics in order to develop a conceptual grid that could help tackling the separation, coexistence and dynamic relationships that may exist between CSR and CSIr in organizations. The paper is organized as follows: after having discussed and clarified CSR and CSI concepts and presented a review of the literature that specifically addresses their characteristics and links, it identifies a set of behaviors adopted by organizations and their members. The focus is on the motivations that can guide companies to adopt CSR and CSIr behaviors, their ties, their positive or negative externalities and their possible effects on performances (economic, social, and environmental). It leads to conclude that, most of the behaviors organizations adopt probably fall (at various degrees) between an "exemplary" CSR, that would be an "ideal state" to which organizations can tender and a situation governed by deliberately and systematically irresponsible behaviors (which probably does not exist in the corporate sphere, except for criminal organizations). Are organizations looking like Dr Jekyll and/or Mister Hyde? Résumé. Alors qu'il existe de nombreuses publications sur la Responsabilité sociale des entreprises (RSE), peu d'articles traitent de l'irresponsabilité sociale des entreprises (IrSE) et/ou des liens qui peuvent exister entre RSE et IrSE. Cet "essai" vise à présenter une revue de la littérature qui fournit des éclairages sur ces questions dans le but de développer une grille d'analyse conceptuelle susceptible de rendre compte de la séparation, la coexistence et la dynamique des relations qui peuvent exister entre RSE et IrSE. Le texte est structuré de la façon suivante : après avoir discuté et tenté de clarifier les concepts de RSE et d'IrSE et présenté une revue de la littérature qui traite spécifiquement de leurs caractéristiques et de leurs liens, nous identifions différents comportements susceptibles d'être adoptés par les organisations et leurs membres. L'accent est mis sur les motivations qui peuvent guider les entreprises à adopter des comportements de RSE et IrSE, sur leurs liens, les externalités positives et négatives qu'ils peuvent induire, et leurs effets possibles sur les performances (économiques, sociales et environnementales). Ceci conduit à conclure que la plupart des comportements adoptés par les organisations se situent, sans doute à des degrés divers, entre l'adoption d'un comportement "exemplaire" en matière de RSE, qui constituerait un " état idéal" vers lequel elles peuvent tendre et une situation qui traduirait l'adoption de comportements délibérément et systématiquement irresponsables (qui n'existent probablement pas dans la sphère des entreprises, à l'exception des organisations criminelles). Les organisations ressembleraient-elles au Dr Jekyll et/ou à Mr Hyde?

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  • Marc Ingham, 2018. "Responsabilité et/ou irresponsabilité sociale d'entreprise? Dr Jekyll et/ou Mr Hyde?," Working Papers hal-01720072, HAL.
  • Handle: RePEc:hal:wpaper:hal-01720072
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