Corporate social responsibility in controversial industries: A literature review and research agenda
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract This study reviews the extant literature about corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities of companies operating in controversial industries. We analyze 88 articles guided by the overall question of how such companies integrate CSR into their business practices, which topics are addressed, and what the effects of these engagements are on various stakeholders. We use Maon et al.'s (2009) integrative framework to structure our analysis and develop a research agenda. Our review suggests that controversial companies' motivations are not altruistic, but largely market‐based and reactive. No studies indicated that firm mission or values underpinned the motivation for undertaking CSR programs. We also found that the perspective of employees was underrepresented. Moreover, a large number of the articles (44.3%) in our dataset dealt with communication‐related topics, neglecting many other areas of the CSR process.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.015 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".