Standardizing social responsibility via ISO 26000: Empirical insights from the forest industry
Standardizing social responsibility via ISO 26000: Empirical insights from the forest industry
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通过 ISO 26000 标准化社会责任：林业行业的经验见解
DOI：
10.1002/sd.1579
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发表时间：
2015
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A. Tuppura
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作者：
A. Toppinen;A. Virtanen;A. Mayer;A. Tuppura
本文重点关注通过采用 ISO 26000 社会责任指导标准来提高企业对可持续发展贡献的可信度和合法性的新兴趋势。实证见解是通过一项两阶段的探索性研究获得的，该研究结合了在线管理调查和对大型林业公司的个人访谈。根据调查结果，这些公司中的大多数已经采用了 ISO 26000 七个核心主题所涵盖的社会责任实践。我们的结果还表明，林业公司非常关注环境问题和组织治理，将其作为实施企业社会责任的关键优先事项，而消费者问题和人权等问题却很少受到关注。此外，虽然 ISO 26000 作为全球可持续发展标准的合法性没有受到批评，但根据我们的结果，可以认为该标准可能不会为现有社会责任相关流程的可持续发展领跑者带来太多附加值，也不够详细，无法纳入森林部门的具体问题。这与质疑可持续标准在国家或全球范围内推动可持续发展进程的能力的概念文献是一致的。版权所有 © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 和 ERP 环境
This paper focuses on the emerging trend to increase the credibility and legitimacy of corporate contributions to sustainable development through the adoption of the ISO 26000 guidance standard for social responsibility. Empirical insights are gained from a two-stage exploratory study combining an online managerial survey and personal interviews in large-scale forest industry companies. Based on the results, the majority of these companies have already adopted social responsibility practices that are covered by the seven core subjects of ISO 26000. Our results also reveal that forest industry companies are strongly focused on environmental issues and organizational governance as key priorities for implementing the CSR, while for example consumer issues and human rights receive very little attention. Furthermore, while the legitimacy of ISO 26000 as a global sustainability standard was not criticized, based on our results it can be argued that this standard may not bring much added value to sustainability frontrunners with existing social responsibility related processes, nor is it sufficiently detailed to incorporate forest-sector-specific issues. This is in line with conceptual literature questioning the ability of sustainability standards to drive progress towards sustainable development at the national or global scale. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment