Corporate Social Entrepreneurship

Dr Christine A. Hemingway is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Organisational Behaviour at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her work is geared towards the creation of social, environmental and economic value. She is one of the founding scholars of the micro foundations of corporate social responsibility (micro-CSR). This is a sociological and psychological perspective that investigates responsible/irresponsible organisational contexts, and the development of formal and informal leaders, or activists, known as 'corporate social entrepreneurs'. Her pioneering work has inspired a practitioner movement and is widely cited in major scholarly journals. Prior to her academic career, Christine has 12 years' blue-chip management experience, spanning a number of industries, including significant budget responsibility for some globally recognised consumer brands. This paved the way for her appointment as a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor), prior to embarking on a part-time doctoral programme of study at the Nottingham University Business School, whilst lecturing full-time at the University of Hull.

'Hemingway's research aim is to understand generative mechanisms for the enterprising pursuit of socially responsible behaviour and provide evidence-based practice advice for increasing the inclusion of social value in business decision making. … Hemingway has guided the reader through scholarly concepts of moral character and has provided considerable insight into the personal characteristics of people who take the personal initiative to consistently behave in a socially responsible manner at work.' Anne Dickson, Organization

• Foreword Jeremy Moon; Preface; Introducing corporate social responsibility; Part I. Values and Corporate Social Responsibility: 1. Structural drivers of corporate social responsibility; 2. Agential drivers of corporate social responsibility; 3. Moral agency and discretion: duty or disengagement?; Part II. Personal Values and Corporate Social Entrepreneurship: 4. The relationship between personal values and behaviour; 5. The corporate social entrepreneur; 6. Integrity and the moral character; Part III. Modes of Moral Commitment to CSR: 7. Investigating corporate social entrepreneurship; 8. The active corporate social entrepreneur; 9. The concealed corporate social entrepreneur; 10. The conformist; 11. The disassociated; Part IV. Developing a Socially Responsible Organisational Culture: 12. Conclusion: ad-hoc CSR cannot be sustainable; 13. Leveraging integrity within: some brief, practical steps; Appendix: Rokeach Values Survey; Index.