Answering the call for a new theoretical approach to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), this paper makes a suggestion from a Weberian perspective. It briefly appraises the existing research on CSR and develops key points of a new approach based on their criticism. Suggesting that CSR is a...

In den 1980er Jahren löste die Befürchtung, dass der Wald aufgrund des Eintrags von anthropogenen Luftverunreinigungen wie Schwefeldioxid und Stickstoffoxiden großflächig absterben werde, die bis dato größte Umweltdebatte in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland aus, die bis heute vielfältig...

Applying the theoretical lens of organizational institutionalism, this study analyzes the spread of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the Austrian corporate world. The objectives are threefold: First, to explore the institutional framework in place; second, to explain the dissemination of...

This paper takes up an important question that has puzzled learning theorists in the critical tradition, namely, are the dialogic practices of emancipatory discourse sufficient to change oppressive conditions in the power structure of modern organization? In other words, can critical dialogic...

The present paper upholds the possibility, or, indeed, necessity to approach context from the perspective of the ‘cognitive properties’ of the participants in a communicative situation. It claims that the generally-accepted viewpoint on analysis should be reversed and the cognitive...

This article investigates how a recent report by the ILO works hard to make migration a global phenomenon. The analysis reminds us that reality is never immediately legible; it is always construed discursively and migration is therefore neither inherently local nor global. It is precisely the...