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Boards and CSR: exploring the individual perceptions of non-executive directors
Accounting Forum ( IF 4.000 ) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 , DOI: 10.1080/01559982.2023.2237215
Lies Bouten 1 , Julie Bayle-Cordier 1 , Adel Beldi 1 , Tiphaine Compernolle 2
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ABSTRACT

This study explores how non-executive directors (NEDs) perceive board debates around corporate social responsibility (CSR) and how they make sense of these perceptions. It also investigates how individual NEDs view their role and the role of the board in governing CSR. To these ends, we conducted in-depth interviews with NEDs serving on the boards of French listed companies. The interviewees indicated that CSR was seldom discussed substantively at the board level during the interview period and that NEDs had different levels of comfort with this, depending on their personal views on CSR. To explain our findings, we draw on institutional logics, particularly the agentic approach to logics. More specifically, we detail how NEDs’ diverging views on CSR and on the roles of NEDs and boards in governing CSR reflected their different framings of the relationship between the profit-maximising and sustainability logics and distinguish three such framings: competitive, competing-yet-facilitative and additive. Moreover, we demonstrate that the interplay between board members’ framings shaped CSR board debates and, therefore, the extent to which the sustainability logic was accommodated at the board level. The NEDs’ narratives point to two other factors driving the extent of CSR board debates: external pressures from the business environment to act in line with the sustainability logic and the presence/absence of a CSR-board committee.



中文翻译:

董事会与企业社会责任:探讨非执行董事的个人看法

摘要

本研究探讨了非执行董事 (NED) 如何看待董事会围绕企业社会责任 (CSR) 的辩论,以及他们如何理解这些看法。它还调查了各个非执行董事如何看待自己的角色以及董事会在治理企业社会责任方面的角色。为此,我们对法国上市公司董事会的非执行董事进行了深入采访。受访者表示,在访谈期间,董事会层面很少对企业社会责任进行实质性讨论,而非执行董事对此的满意度也不同,这取决于他们对企业社会责任的个人看法。为了解释我们的发现,我们利用制度逻辑,特别是逻辑的代理方法。进一步来说,我们详细介绍了非执行董事对企业社会责任以及非执行董事和董事会在治理企业社会责任中的角色的不同看法,如何反映了他们对利润最大化和可持续发展逻辑之间关系的不同框架,并区分了三种这样的框架:竞争性、竞争性但促进性和附加性。此外,我们还证明,董事会成员框架之间的相互作用影响了企业社会责任董事会辩论,从而影响了董事会层面对可持续发展逻辑的适应程度。NED 的叙述指出了另外两个因素推动了企业社会责任董事会辩论的范围:来自商业环境的外部压力,要求其按照可持续发展逻辑行事,以及企业社会责任董事会委员会的存在/不存在。具有竞争性但又具有促进性和附加性。此外,我们还证明,董事会成员框架之间的相互作用影响了企业社会责任董事会辩论,从而影响了董事会层面对可持续发展逻辑的适应程度。NED 的叙述指出了另外两个因素推动了企业社会责任董事会辩论的范围:来自商业环境的外部压力,要求其按照可持续发展逻辑行事,以及企业社会责任董事会委员会的存在/不存在。具有竞争性但又具有促进性和附加性。此外,我们还证明,董事会成员框架之间的相互作用影响了企业社会责任董事会辩论,从而影响了董事会层面对可持续发展逻辑的适应程度。NED 的叙述指出了另外两个因素推动了企业社会责任董事会辩论的范围:来自商业环境的外部压力,要求其按照可持续发展逻辑行事,以及企业社会责任董事会委员会的存在/不存在。

更新日期:2023-09-03
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