We can´t have it both ways: A Network’s framing of Corporate Social Responsibility
2019 (English)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE credits
Student thesis
Abstract [en]
The aim of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is to increase sustainable business practices in all sectors of society. The EU-2030 agenda creates a blueprint for actors and influences national strategies of sustainability as a countermeasure of the sustainability issues at hand. We are investigating how the publicly co-financed Swedish regional network, CSR-Västsverige (CSR-V) is framing the concept CSR. Our theoretical framework consists of the triple bottom line which is divided into its social, economic and environmental dimensions, and the equivalence frames risk/opportunity. This thesis is a single case study that will conduct a qualitative content analysis on CSR-Vs education material to answer our research question; How does CSR-Västsverige frame the concept CSR in their education programs? Through our analysis, we found that CSR-V employs both risk and opportunity framing, with a main focus on opportunity framing in the economic category.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2019. , p. 61
Keywords [en]
Framing theory CSR Equivalence frame Prospect theory Triple bottom line
National Category
Political Science
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-14124Local ID: EIS501OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hv-14124DiVA, id: diva2:1337800
Subject / course
Political science
Educational program
International Programme in Politics and Economics
Supervisors
Examiners
2019-07-232019-07-172019-07-23Bibliographically approved