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Advances in Employee-Focused Micro-Level Research on Corporate Social Responsibility: Situating New Contributions Within the Current State of the Literature

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This editorial outlines the articles included in the special thematic symposium on corporate social responsibility and employees and highlights their contributions to the literature. In doing so, it highlights the novel theoretical and empirical insights provided by the articles, how the articles inform and expand the methods and research designs researchers can use to study phenomena in this area, and identifies promising directions for future research.

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Notes

  1. Hereafter, we refer to this employee-focused research literature using ‘micro-CSR research/literature’ while omitting the ‘employee-focused’ qualifier, unless otherwise noted.

  2. We recognize that tacit causal assumptions are implied by characterizing the job attitudes and behaviors linked to CSR as ‘reactions’ or ‘responses.’ We acknowledge the near absence of causal evidence in this literature, and we use this language only to reflect how we, and most other micro-CSR researchers, conceptualize these relationships.

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Jones, D.A., Newman, A., Shao, R. et al. Advances in Employee-Focused Micro-Level Research on Corporate Social Responsibility: Situating New Contributions Within the Current State of the Literature. J Bus Ethics 157, 293–302 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-018-3792-7

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