Creating value through CSR across company functions and NGO collaborations

Lise Lodsgård and Annabeth Aagaard

Scandinavian Journal of Management, 2017, vol. 33, issue 3, 162-174

Abstract: A growing number of researchers and practitioners stress the potentials of creating value through Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and collaborations with non-governmental organizations (NGOs). However, little attention has been paid as to how value and value creation is defined in the context of CSR and NGO collaborations and integrated across key functional areas within the company. This research gap is explored empirically through a cross-industry case study of five companies’ application and approaches to CSR and NGO collaborations to facilitate value creation. The findings reveal different scenarios of how companies approach CSR and NGO collaborations in their value propositions and in value creation through collaborative activities across core business functions. The findings reveal that the type of value creation originate from the way the business-NGO collaborations are applied across the companies’ collaborative activities in communication, HRM and sustainable innovation/R&D.

Keywords: CSR; NGO collaborations; Value proposition; Value creation; Communication; Human resource management; R&D; Case study (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.scaman.2017.05.002

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