Dealing with organizational legacies of irresponsibility

Vives, Jordi, Schrempf-Stirling, Judith and M. Coraiola, Diego (2024) Dealing with organizational legacies of irresponsibility. The Academy of Management Perspectives, 38 (3), 269-439. (doi:10.5465/amp.2022.0126).

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Abstract

Organizations are increasingly confronted with critical questions and concerns posed to their legacies of irresponsibility, in other words, the decisions and actions taken by past generations of managers deemed unethical and immoral and with enduring negative social and environmental consequences in the present. However, there is limited guidance for organizations and their managers on how to deal with such legacies. The purpose of this paper is to offer directions on how organizations can approach their troubled pasts. We draw from the literature on transitional justice to develop an approach that organizations can use to deal with their legacies of irresponsibility. This paper contributes to the literature on historic corporate social (ir)responsibility and provides practical guidance for organizations to address the sins of previous generations of managers.

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