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Corporate social responsibility as a strategic narrative: The cases of UK project-based organisations

Sergeeva, Natalya; Kapetanaki, Evangelia; (2022) Corporate social responsibility as a strategic narrative: The cases of UK project-based organisations. Project Leadership and Society , 3 , Article 100073. 10.1016/j.plas.2022.100073. Green open access

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Abstract

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a strategic narrative that has continuously gained attention from policy makers, practitioners and academics over the last few decades. However, there are limited project management studies which specifically explore CSR-related policy and strategic narrative, and a process of translating it into project-based organisations and their projects. This research study contributes to the existing project management studies by providing insights into the ways project-based organisations formalise and communicate CSR-related narratives and show initiatives and actions in response to wider policy agenda. Through an in-depth analysis of three case studies, we show the ways CSR narratives have been (re)constructed and they ways organisations socially construct their identities as socially responsible. The policy agenda is translated into narratives of corporate responsibility, commitments and actions demonstrated by project-based organisations. Project-based organisations are active players in committing to achieving policy agenda and delivering projects that address and promote CSR.

Type: Article
Title: Corporate social responsibility as a strategic narrative: The cases of UK project-based organisations
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1016/j.plas.2022.100073
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plas.2022.100073
Language: English
Additional information: Copyright © 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Keywords: Corporate social responsibility, Identities, Narrative, Policy, Strategies
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment
URI: https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10160068
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