SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND ETHICS AS ENGAGEMENT VECTORS ORGANIZATIONAL

Abstract

Organizational commitment is a key concept in the field of management. In addition, the corporate
social responsibility and organizational ethics are attracting more and more interest from researchers. The mechanisms linking these concepts are still little explored. The objectives of this article
are 1) to describe the research linking organizational commitment and social responsibility or business ethics and 2) to propose an operational framework. From a descriptive meta-analysis, more
than 20 years of research on organizational commitment from the perspective of corporate social
responsibility and organizational ethics are summarized. The analysis of 26 references from 16 different journals shows that CSR and organizational ethics have a positive effect on organizational
commitment. An operational framework is proposed to provide practitioners and researchers
concrete support to develop a CSR strategy