Mapping the Link between Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Human Resource Management (HRM): How Is This Relationship Measured?

Mónica Santana,Susana Pasamar,Rafael Morales-Sánchez

doi:10.3390/su12041678

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Journal: Sustainability	Publication Date: Feb 24, 2020
Citations: 36	License type: CC BY 4.0

Affiliation: Universidad Pablo de Olavide

Abstract

Despite the relevance of human resources in the management of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), confusion and theoretical chaos are still evident in the area. This manuscript provides a systematic review of the link between CSR and Human Resource Management (HRM), stressing the main topics along with the evolution and tendencies founded in this field. SciMAT was used to conduct a conceptual science mapping analysis based on co-word bibliographic networks. From 2006 to 2019, 194 documents were retrieved from the Web of Science. Considering the last period (2017–2019), the motor themes (those which are well-developed and relevant for the structure of the research field) were environmental management (including green HRM), sustainable HRM and pro-environmental behaviour. Socially responsible HRM (SR-HRM) was a basic theme (important, although not developed). Perceived organisational support was a specialised theme (well-developed, although less important), and employee commitment was an emerging theme (both weakly developed and marginal). In addition, a review of the measurement tools used in the main topics extracted from the previous analysis was carried out. Our analysis will help inform researchers and practitioners on the future of CSR and HRM and the previous efforts in the creation of measurement instruments.

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The concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been tackled extensively in the literature, and it has generated a large number of academic publications, it is a subject of interest for companies
This paper aims, firstly, to address the lack of structured analyses of the link between CSR and human resource management (HRM) in the literature and, secondly, to highlight motor and transversal themes, proposing emerging topics that are relevant for future research in the field
SciMAT incorporates all the tools necessary to carry out all the steps of the science mapping workflow, which helps to carry out the different steps of the science mapping workflow

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The concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been tackled extensively in the literature, and it has generated a large number of academic publications, it is a subject of interest for companies. The European Commission [1] defined CSR as the process through which the social, environmental, ethical and human concerns of interest groups are integrated into business activities. These activities aim to maximize the creative value of these interest groups, as well as to identify, prevent or mitigate the negative influence of organisational actions on the environment [2]. Recent efforts have been made to define and specify the particular activities included by the socially responsible HRM (SR-HRM) [2,4,5,6] label, there is still a need to improve the understanding of this discipline by founding instruments that effectively allow its evaluation and comparison in a systematic way [7], avoiding confusion with other topics

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