Handbook of Research Methods in Corporate Social Responsibility

Edited by David Crowther, Leicester Business School, De Montfort University, UK and Linne Marie Lauesen, Water and Waste Svendborg, Denmark

• Contents:IntroductionDavid Crowther and Linne Marie LauesenPART I: METHODOLOGY PLANNING1. Grounded theory in corporate social responsibility researchVilma Žydžiūnaitė and Loreta Tauginienė2. Using a mixed methods approach for corporate social responsibility researchJane Claydon3. Imperative of meta-study for research in the field of corporate social responsibility and emerging issues in corporate governanceLukman Raimi4. Ethics in the research processDavid Crowther5. Research methods in organization, management and management accounting: an evaluation of quantitative and qualitative approachesMiriam Green6. Methodological and epistemological perspectives in the study of corporate social responsibility in ColombiaDuván Emilio Ramírez Ospina and José Fernando Muñoz Ospina PART II: QUANTITATIVE METHODS7. Game theory as a research tool for sustainabilityShahla Seifi8. Key concerns in longitudinal study designRima Kalinauskaitė9. Sampling and sampling procedures in corporate social responsibility researchHabib Zaman Khan and Md. Rashidozzaman Khan10. Food deserts in British cities: comparing food access, obesity, and ethnicity in Leicester and Stoke on TrentHillary J. Shaw11. The application of statistical methods in CSR researchChristopher Boachie and George K. Amoako 12. Regression techniques and their application in the corporate social responsibility domain: an overviewSonali Bhattacharya, Madhvi Sethi, Abhishek Behl and V.G. Venkatesh PART III: QUALITATIVE METHODS13. Analytic autoethnography as a tool to enhance reflection, reflexivity and critical thinking in CSR researchFernanda de Paiva Duarte 14. Insights regarding the applicability of semiotics to CSR communication researchKemi C. Yekini15. Ethnographic research methods in CSR research: building theory out of people’s everyday life with materials, objects, practices, and symbolic constructionsLinne Marie Lauesen16. Interviews as an instrument to explore management motivation for corporate social and environmental reportingHomaira Semeen and Muhammad Azizul Islam 17. Participant observation as the data collection tool and its usage in the CSR researchesIlke Oruc 18. Application of correspondence analysis to determinants of human resources disclosureEsther Ortiz and José G. Clavel19. The application of survey methodology in CSR researchChristopher Boachie20. Content analysis method: a proposed scoring for quantitative and qualitative disclosuresJuniati Gunawan and Kumalawati Abadi21. Focus groups in social accounting as a stakeholder engagement toolSara Moggi22. A phenomenological study of moral discourse, social justice and CSRJulia J.A. Shaw23. Social network analysis in CSR researchDuygu Türker24. Theoretical storytelling as meta-frame for all research methods in corporate social responsibilityLinne Marie LauesenPART IV: FUTURE RESEARCH AGENDA25. Philosophical prolegomena to all future research in CSRNicholas Capaldi26. Beyond strategic CSR: the concept of responsibility as the foundation of ethics - political, technological and economic responsibility for the future of humanityJacob Dahl Rendtorff27. From positivism to social constructivism: an emerging trend for CSR researchersMartin Samy and Fiona RobertsonIndex