1. UNI Interdisciplinary Research Symposium "Get Connected
UNI Interdisciplinary Research Symposium "Get Connected. Make an Impact"
Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Citizenship, and Business Ethics
Adele Queiroz

2. Business and Society: An Overview of the Field
The social environment
The ethical environment
The public policy environment
The ecological environment
The stakeholder environment
The international environment

3. Three interrelated concepts
Business Ethics Question asked: “What is right and wrong, good and bad, and harmful and beneficial regarding decisions and actions in organizational transactions?” (Weiss 2006 p.7)
Corporate Social Responsibility Question asked: “Do companies have a social [as applied to social welfare issues] responsibility and, if so, how can firms meet and evidence their fulfillment of this responsibility?” (Hartman 2005 p. 267)
Corporate/Business Citizenship Question asked: “how do companies understand and manage their wider influences on society for the benefit of the company and society as a whole?” (Andriof and McIntosh 2001 p. 14)

4. Research Project 1: Motivations for use of organizational social practices
Commitment: “We do it because is the right thing to do”
Calculation: “We do it because it benefits the company”
Conformance: “We do it because this is how we do things here”
Caring: “We do it because we have an emotional attachment to this cause/nonprofit”

5. The emergence of new organizational forms
Research Project 2:
The emergence of new organizational forms
Traditional organizational forms
Environmental pressures
New organizational forms
Language: profitability focus;
social focus when possible
Language: social focus; profitability as means to achieve larger social objectives