Collectively Designing CSR Through Meta-Organizations: A Case Study of the Oil and Gas Industry

Héloïse Berkowitz (), Marcelo Bucheli and Hervé Dumez
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Héloïse Berkowitz: CRG I3 - Centre de Recherche en Gestion I3 - X - École polytechnique - IP Paris - Institut Polytechnique de Paris - Université Paris-Saclay - I3 - Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Marcelo Bucheli: UIUC - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [Urbana] - University of Illinois System
Hervé Dumez: CRG I3 - Centre de Recherche en Gestion I3 - X - École polytechnique - IP Paris - Institut Polytechnique de Paris - Université Paris-Saclay - I3 - Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: Few industries have been pressured to develop corporate social responsibility (CSR) standards and policies like oil and gas. This has translated into the creation of non-governmental organizations and branches of the oil and gas firms focused on CSR. However, given the intrinsic complex characteristics of this industry, its global reach, and the fact that its operations affect and involve a wide variety of stakeholders, CSR issues cannot be defined and implemented exclusively at the industry or firm levels, but require the participation of other actors affected directly or indirectly by oil and gas activities. In this paper we argue, first, that oil and gas CSR issues are collectively constructed through meta-organizations (organizations composed by other organizations), and, second, that the complexity and variety of CSR issues require companies to build industry-specific and non-industry-specific collective actions. Based on how oil and gas firms participate in this multi-level co-construction of CSR issues, we created a typology of meta-organizations as infra-sectoral, sectoral, cross-sectoral, and supra-sectoral meta-organizations.

Keywords: Meta-organizations Oil and gas industry Industry-specific CSR Collective action CSR self-regulating mechanisms; meta-organisation; secteur pétrolier; RSE industrie-spécifique; action collective; mécanismes d'auto-régulation RSE (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-07
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Published in Journal of Business Ethics, 2017, 143 (4), pp.753-769. ⟨10.1007/s10551-016-3073-2⟩

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DOI: 10.1007/s10551-016-3073-2

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