Corporate Sustainability and Religion: The Role of Religious Values in Societal Discourses
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2023-07-04
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he research provides a comparison of discourses on sustainability in business and religion. The aim of the research is to investigate from a sociological perspective whether and how religious values can enhance societal discourses as corporate sustainability within the business context. The research has been conducted with the purpose of filling a present gap in the literature, in which the two discourses about religion and corporate sustainability have not been compared yet neither from a textual point of view nor in context where religiosity is a latent social construct.
To answer the research question, a discourse analysis has been performed by analyzing relevant texts from both discourses. Qualitative data as keywords and key concepts have been conceptually and theoretically organized through the creation of a codebook; the output of the analysis revealed quantitative data as frequencies and co-occurrences which produced the research results. For what concerns the discourse about corporate sustainability, the annual reports of ten leading companies who best performed on the Dow Jones Sustainability Index 2020 have been analysed. On the other hand, the religious discourse found its bases on the Catholic papal encyclicals “Laudato Si’” (2015) and “Fratelli Tutti” (2020); and on the Buddhist documents “The time to act is now” (2015) and “Buddhist climate change statement to world leaders” (2015).
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen