Nonprofit Roles in For-profit Firms: The Institutionalization of Corporate Philanthropy in France

Arthur Gautier (), Anne-Claire Pache () and Imran Chowdhury ()
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Arthur Gautier: ESSEC Business School, Postal: Avenue Bernard Hirsch - B.P. 50105, 95021 CERGY-PONTOISE Cedex, FRANCE, http://www.essec.edu
Anne-Claire Pache : ESSEC Business School, Postal: Avenue Bernard Hirsch - B.P. 50105, 95021 CERGY-PONTOISE Cedex, FRANCE, http://www.essec.edu
Imran Chowdhury: Pace University – Lubin School of Business, Postal: Pace University, Lubin School of Business, One Pace Plaza, New York, NY 10038 , UNITED STATES, http://www.pace.edu/lubin/

No WP1319, ESSEC Working Papers from ESSEC Research Center, ESSEC Business School

Abstract: In this research project we aim to understand the role of institutional entrepreneurship across multiple levels - field, organization, and micro levels - in the institutionalization of a new professional role within organizations. Specifically, we study the rise of the "corporate philanthropy manager," a position inspired by nonprofit values and goals which developed within large French corporations during the period 1979 to 2011. The process of creating, maintaining and legitimizing this new role - philanthropy as a new business function - is the central focus of our study, and we explore how elements of the nonprofit and for-profit worlds came together in this new role, as well as the role of various actors across multiple levels in influencing this combination.

Keywords: Corporate philanthropy; Professions; Institutional change; Institutional entrepreneurship; Institutional work (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 38 pages
Date: 2013-12
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