Purpose Current processes of globalization have increased the challenge for multi-national corporations (MNCs) to retain legitimacy. In order to (re-)gain moral legitimacy, recent studies suggest that MNCs should engage in deliberative dialog processes with their various stakeholders, e.g.,...

Extant research on CSR communication has focused primarily on external communication, i.e. what firms communicate to their environment. At the same time, a large part of this literature exhibits a mechanistic understanding of communication that implies the possibility of a package-like transfer...

The emerging process view in organization studies conceptualizes organizations as fluid streams of organizing. If, however, organizations are conceived as consisting of something as ephemeral as processes, the question arises how the organization is then able to interconnect the very processes...

Computational simulations have become a widely accepted method in organization science. Simulations allow for the exploration of potentialities beyond the restrictions of conventional empirical methodologies. Accordingly, we replicate, modify, and extend March’s “Model of Mutual Learning”...

The past decade has witnessed the emergence of a large set of voluntary corporate social responsibility (CSR) standards. However, our knowledge is limited on how and why certain CSR initiatives diffuse extensively whereas others do so only partially or not at all. One of the rare examples of a...

Purpose – Extant research on corporate social responsibility (CSR) communication primarily relies on a transmission model of communication that treats organizations and communication as distinct phenomena. This approach has been criticized for neglecting the formative role of communication in...