604: CSR and Management History: What Can the Past Teach us about Responsible Leadership? (16529)

Sunday, August 11, 2024

09:00 – 11:00 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

Location: Swissotel: Montreux 2

Session Number: 604
PDW (workshop)
Orientation: Research
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/ZKyWGJ

Coordinator(s)

MH

Michael Heller

Brunel Business School, Brunel U. London

Discussant(s)

MR

Michael Rowlinson

U. of Exeter, United Kingdom

Participant(s)

MM

Mairi Maclean

U. of Bath, United Kingdom
CH

Charles Edward Harvey

Newcastle U., United Kingdom
KT

Kevin D. Tennent

U. of York, United Kingdom
UT

Ulf Thoene

U. de La Sabana, Colombia
JL

Jessica Mary Lomas

Henley Business School, U. of Reading, United Kingdom, United Kingdom

Management and Organizational History (MOH) (Clark & Rowlinson, 2004; Rowlinson, Hassard, & Decker, 2014) and Historic Organization Studies (HOS) (Maclean, Harvey, & Clegg, 2016; Maclean, Clegg, Suddaby, & Harvey, 2021) has researched efforts by organizations in the past to adopt strategies that have gone beyond the profit motive, and developed socially responsible forms of business that catered to the needs of stakeholders, society and the environment. This has, in particular, focused on the history of industrial welfare, the human relations movement, personnel and human resource management (HRM), and corporate social responsibility (CSR) (Fitzgerald, 1988; Gospel, 1992; Mandell, 2002; Kaufman, 2008; Marens, 2010, 2011; Bruce & Nyland, 2011; Hassard, 2012; Kaplan, 2015; Weatherburn, 2020; Maclean, Shaw, & Harvey, 2022). How and why this occurred, including the question of altruistic versus instrumental corporate motivation, have structured much of this research. In this PDW we examine this history through four presentations which case study socially responsible management in the past. We ask and provide guidance on the implications of this research for those studying the history of responsible leadership, management and organizations, and for researchers who are interested in the legacy of the past on socially responsive practices and strategies for management and organizations in the present and future.