Christiane Marie Høvring

• Professor (Associate) at Aarhus University

Purpose The purpose of this article is to critically analyze the existing literature on internal social media (ISM) within the context of internal communication, aiming to provide a more nuanced understanding of the roles of ISM and its potential implications for communicative practices. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on a problematizing revi...

Based on a qualitative study of multiple stakeholder dialogues in a CSR context, the purpose of this study is to show how hypocrisy emerges in dialogue settings. As such, we challenge the normative CSR communication literature, which highlights stakeholder dialogue as an ideal way to avoid and solve potential accusations of hypocrisy. Drawing on an...

Corporate social responsibility is a complex discipline that not only demands responsible behavior in production processes but also includes the concepts of communicative transparency and dialogue. Stakeholder dialogue is therefore expected to be an integrated part of the CSR strategy (Morsing and Schultz in Bus Ethics: A Eur Rev 14(4):323–338, 200...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is said to be resting on a fundamental dilemma: a dilemma between ethical obligations towards society versus economic duties of maximising profits. In other words: A clash occurs between business and morality. In this chapter, we explore how this fundamental dilemma is replicated in CSR communication contexts....

There is a growing interest in how the notion of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as shared value creation is translated in Scandinavia. However, current research seems to disregard that the specific institutional context is ambiguous, enabling the organization and its internal stakeholders to translate the institutional logics into contradict...

Purpose The debate on corporate social responsibility (CSR) as shared value creation is trapped between management scholars and business ethics scholars, focusing merely on the distribution of values from an outcome-oriented perspective. The result is a juxtaposition of shared value from either a corporate or a societal perspective, providing only...