Wash Corporate Heads! Business Practice can be Changed via the Dispositions of Executives: Re-socialization towards Implicit Eco-sustainability

Timur Hrotko
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Abstract: The present paper is the synopsis of my doctoral dissertation, which assumes that – in addition to rational factors – the dispositions of management also decisively affect business decisions, and thus business executives' mindset and behavioral patterns (their 'habitus') should be the target of the influence of society whenever societally important changes depend on current business practice. I outlined an institutionalized framework of re-socialization to influence the CEO subculture (and suggest it as part of the CSR agenda). The ecological sensitivity and awareness of industry are treated as a societal issue in the thesis. I have carried out research into the presence and functioning of dispositional logic (the Bourdieusian habitus) in managerial practice with the help of a few narrative interviews.

Keywords: disposition; Habitus; business practice; executive subculture; ecological responsibility; CSR; eco-sustainability; voluntary standard; logic of collective action; mindset; interplay as collusion; controlled influence; practice constructing community; auxiliary socialization; re-socialization; strategy-as-practice; stewardship; fiduciary duty; social engagement; organizational choreography; professional identity; executive mask; meaning negotiation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A14 D62 D70 L20 L50 M14 P13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-05-13, Revised 2008-05-13
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