A communicative approach to responsability discourse in business : from societal to corporate and individual levels
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description: I position my doctoral thesis in the broad field of organization science; it stands within the domains of business ethics, sustainability, and corporate responsibility. I appreciate the emergence of a globalized world whereby countries, people, and businesses are connected to each other through economic, political, social, and technological ties. The globalized economies and societies pose complex and multifaceted challenges. To cope with these challenges, businesses will have to assume newer responsibilities and roles. These responsibilities originate from the evolving societal expectations about businesses and their duties. Hence social discourse on business responsibility should highlight the emerging societal expectations. Further, within businesses, the responsibility discourse should give an insight to the reaction of businesses to these emerging responsibilities. And, finally these discourses should affect the consumers’ cognitive development, and consequently impact their attitudes and behaviors. The challenges of sustainability and corporate responsibility are complex, conflicting and at times contradictory. It is imperative to bank on our ability to communicate, to discuss and to co-create universally applicable rules. Therefore I adopt a discursive approach in my thesis, and use Habermas’ theory of communicative action (1981) as an overarching theoretical framework. The thesis contains three research studies, each focusing on one aspect of responsibility, thus covering the three levels of responsibility discourse: societal, corporate and individual. The first article presents a thematic analysis of the business responsibility discourse in popular CSR and sustainability books. Content analyses is used to elicit the apparent and latent responsibility themes of the sample books. The second article focuses on the patterns of social disclosure among large French corporations. The responsibility discourse is analyzed through content analyses of the annual repor…
identifier: NNT: 2013PA090024
issued: 2026-05-07T08:30:58.834799
language: en
modified: 2026-05-07T08:30:58.834804
contact point: Organization
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keyword: business-ethics
keyword: corporate-responsibility
keyword: csr
keyword: developpement-durable
keyword: ethique-commerciale
keyword: infoeu-reposemanticsdoctoralthesis
keyword: responsabilite-des-entreprises
keyword: rse
keyword: shsgestionhumanities-and-social-sciencesbusiness-administration
keyword: sustainability
keyword: theorie-de-lagir-communicationnel
keyword: theorie-de-lethique-du-discours
keyword: theory-of-communicative-action
keyword: theory-of-discourse-ethics
keyword: theses
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