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ESSEC Research Center, ESSEC Business School
No WP1319: Nonprofit Roles in For-profit Firms: The Institutionalization of Corporate Philanthropy in France
Arthur Gautier (), Anne-Claire Pache () and Imran Chowdhury ()
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Arthur Gautier: ESSEC Business School, Postal: Avenue Bernard Hirsch - B.P. 50105, 95021 CERGY-PONTOISE Cedex, FRANCE
Anne-Claire Pache: ESSEC Business School, Postal: Avenue Bernard Hirsch - B.P. 50105, 95021 CERGY-PONTOISE Cedex, FRANCE
Imran Chowdhury: Pace University – Lubin School of Business, Postal: Pace University, Lubin School of Business, One Pace Plaza, New York, NY 10038 , UNITED STATES
Abstract: In this research project we aim to understand the role of institutional entrepreneurship across multiple levels - field, organization, and micro levels - in the institutionalization of a new professional role within organizations. Specifically, we study the rise of the "corporate philanthropy manager," a position inspired by nonprofit values and goals which developed within large French corporations during the period 1979 to 2011. The process of creating, maintaining and legitimizing this new role - philanthropy as a new business function - is the central focus of our study, and we explore how elements of the nonprofit and for-profit worlds came together in this new role, as well as the role of various actors across multiple levels in influencing this combination.
Keywords: Corporate philanthropy; Professions; Institutional change; Institutional entrepreneurship; Institutional work
JEL-codes: D64
38 pages, December 2013
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