How did corporate responses to the Covid‐19 pandemic correspond with CSR?

Fabien Martinez, Frank Figge, Sylvaine Castellano, Atreya Chakraborty and Lucia Silva‐Gao

Business Ethics, the Environment & Responsibility, 2023, vol. 32, issue S3, 161-165

Abstract: This editorial of the special issue addresses the question of whether/how responses to the Covid‐19 pandemic corresponded with authentic CSR. The literature on CSR has tended to endorse a business‐centric perspective and its inherent focus on the search for alignments between CSR activities and the economic/financial interests of the firm. The Covid‐19 pandemic has put this perspective to the test, pushing many companies to engage in distinctively more genuine and authentic CSR and/or demonstrating the importance of prior CSR engagement in facilitating crisis management. The papers included in the special issue appear to converge on the idea that firms combining evidence of both pre‐crisis engagement in CSR and strong CSR performance during the crisis (demonstrated through the deployment of various CSR assets and resources, including certified reporting, social marketing, individual engagement, resilience, legitimacy, trust) have coped better. This provides interested researchers with an opportunity to appreciate the value of CSR during a crisis.

Date: 2023
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