Abstract
The recent attention paid to internal corporate social responsibility (ICSR) observed in the academic literature has been paralleled by an increased focus thereof in management, to achieve the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). A bibliometric examination of the literature on ICSR and a complementary content analysis with ATLAS.ti revealed that the topic was largely neglected until 2014 but has now reached a consolidation stage. The main contribution of this paper was to conceptualize ICSR within the current theoretical paradigm of sustainability. The obtained results demonstrate that sustainable management requires attention to internal practices such as employee well-being and engagement. We anticipate that very soon, organizations will be directly involved in the SDG agenda through ICSR.
Highlights
Sustainable development is an overarching paradigm of the United Nations (UN).It was defined in the 1987 Brundtland Commission Report as “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” ([1] p. 43)
2, which shows on employee-centered social responsibility are presented in Figure 2, which shows how how publications about employee-centered employee-centered social the Web of Science (WoS)
internal corporate social responsibility (ICSR) theoretical paradigms stem from a combination of social psychology and stakeholder theories to converge on the current sustainable paradigm
Summary
Sustainable development is an overarching paradigm of the United Nations (UN).It was defined in the 1987 Brundtland Commission Report as “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” ([1] p. 43). Sustainable development has often been (and still is) represented by the Triple Bottom Line proposal suggested by Elkington in 1997 about corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices, i.e., the simultaneous consideration of the environment, society and the economy, and achieving a balanced integration of these three elements [3]. Based on this assumption, the managerial paradigm for the 20th century has become sustainable management and business, with a clear vision for the future, where issues of the triple bottom line are expected to be interdependent when stakeholders are engaged.
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