Corporate Social Responsibility To-Come: A Derridean Interruption of Transparency

<p>This study investigated the relation between rhetorics of transparency and organizational action. Digging into CSR literature from a philosophy of communication perspective, this project seeks to determine if corporate social responsibility delivers on the promises it makes of a better world.</p> <p>Drawing on the work of Jacques Derrida, the research first lays out his often overlooked contribution to the philosophy of communication, and then moves towards possible applications in deconstructing the perceived benefits of CSR, particularly in its transparent nature. By looking at organizational life from the Triple Bottom Line, this dissertation peels back the underlying rhetoric of planet, people, profit to discover an ethical project with gaps, fissures, and inconsistencies, in need of a future-oriented version that lives up to this challenge CSR sets out for itself in such precarious times.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

PhD

Level thesis:degree_level

One-year Embargo

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Communication and Rhetorical Studies

Year dc:date.available

2018

Author dc:creator

• Foschia, Robert

Contributors dc:contributor

• Erik Garrett
• Ronald Arnett
• Janie Harden Fritz

• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Transparency
• Derrida
• Triple Bottom Line
• Sustainability
• Business and Corporate Communications
• Other Rhetoric and Composition

Language dc:language

English

Repository record dc:identifier

https://dsc.duq.edu/etd/1744

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dsc.duq.edu:etd-2504