Monika Izabela Noworolnik-Mastalska forsvarer sin ph.d.-afhandling
Monika Izabela Noworolnik-Mastalska forsvarer sin ph.d.-afhandling: 'Participation and learning in organization cultures of enterprises that practice. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) - applying Habermasian perspective'.
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Vejledere og bed?mmelse
Bed?mmelsesudvalg:
- Klaus Tranetoft Nielsen, Lektor, 真人线上娱乐 Universitet, Danmark (Chairperson)
- Henrik Kaare Nielsen, Professor emeritus, Aarhus University, Danmark
- Adrianna Nizińska, Senior Lecturer, University of Wroclaw, Polen
Vejleder:
- Henning Salling Olesen, Professor emeritus, Institut for mennesker og Teknologi, 真人线上娱乐 Universitet, Danmark
Resumé
Social responsibility and sustainability, which are closely linked to overall social values and citizenship ideas and actions, are naturally connected to the discipline of adult education and learning. However, CSR discourse reduces these important social values and citizenship ideas to new public relations tools, such as instrumental CSR, sustainability reports, and innovative marketing strategies employed by firms that apply them, as well as similar approaches among transnational corporations. The situation needs to focus on basic learning processes in local cultures of enterprises that have already implemented or practiced the new global idea in their everyday practice in this new context.
The main theoretical perspective in the research project is the interpretative, drawing on the critical perspective of Jürgen Habermas. The first theoretical chapters focus on understanding the rationality of knowledge and action that underpins the new global idea, providing a new context for local and situated basic learning processes, which are seen as participation in the culture. According to a study on CSR theory in the sciences, the new global concept has a "double face" that links to both social and moral values, as well as citizenship ideas in the context of enterprises, reflecting the global power of the business sector. However, at the same time, it argues about the new strategies, instruments, and technical tools that are calculated or developed for the private interest of the firm.
Building on the research results of other researchers, new global ideas and contexts are strategically implemented in enterprises, focusing on economic revenues or developing new instruments and strategies based on socially responsible or sustainable actions within the enterprise context. It seems that the development of local cultures and intersubjective lifeworlds in this new global context is risky, potentially deepening processes of colonization. Such strategic, institutional, and technical approaches to implementing the new idea, primarily focused on social values and citizenship action, might result in reducing social responsibility and sustainability to merely instrumental tools and local administrative and economic strategies of the firm in this new context of the CSR concept. It requires reflection, supported by research on the social processes of learning and participation in the local cultures of enterprises that practice or implement Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) globally.
The project assumes that the dynamics of fundamental social processes in the culture are active, seen as a basic process of socialization that involves participation in a culture. It is grounded in the social construction of reality and knowledge and with others in the local, everyday context of life, including the implementation of new CSR ideas locally within enterprises. The analytical framework defines the first concept of a culture within an organization, in which the basic social processes of enterprises that implement or practice CSR ideas are situated. Next, it directly focuses on the basic social processes of learning, adopting the perspective of a participant in the culture and applying fundamental theoretical approaches in adult education and learning to understand the research problem in this new global context.
The method applied in this research project is an interpretive multiple-case study. The research project aims to investigate the primary research question: How different actors participate in and learn from local organizational cultures within enterprises that integrate global Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) into their everyday practices, following a structured approach that includes specific research questions and employs various research techniques. Conceptual maps have been applied to collect and analyze empirical data.