Collective Consciousness: Journey towards Corporate Spiritual Responsibility

Abstract

This article bridges the literature on social issues in strategic management and collective consciousness by (1) delineating modes of corporate responsibility involving corporate spiritual responsibility along with corporate social responsibility and corporate social irresponsibility, and (2) embedding the levels of collective consciousness in the organizations making into the essential criteria on deciding the corporate responsibility mode. The article shows that organizations in a particular stage of collective consciousness typically have matched corners considering the contingent responsibility decisions for its real applications. The paper identifies three matched pathways and discusses how they may explain observed irresponsibility phenomena related to corporate scams.