Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society

Volume 18, 2007

Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Meeting

Tyron Love
Pages 209-211

Corporate Philanthropy
Drawing on Countervailing Notions for Social Research

Many international academicians have detailed the determinants and motivations of corporate philanthropy offering significant insight. Yet attempts to objectify the organisation may have mistreated its complex social nature. Scholarship grounded in constructionist thought may allow us to explore and explain philanthropic behaviour and organisational complexity in ways which address contemporary research issues and stagnant conceptions.