Understanding organizational and socio-cultural contexts: A communicative constitutive approach to social license to operate among top Hong Kong companies

• Main Authors: MAK, Angela K. Y., CHAIDAROON, Suwichit (Sean), POROLI, Alessandro, PANG, A.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2021
• Subjects: Cultural discourse analysis; Engagement; Legitimacy; Social license to operate; Socio-cultural meaning; Asian Studies; Business and Corporate Communications; Business Law, Public Responsibility, and Ethics
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/6870; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/7869/viewcontent/UnderstandingOrgSocio_Cultural_2021_PRR_av.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Embracing a constitutive view of communication, this study explores how organizations in Hong Kong make sense of and negotiate their corporate societal commitment. It does that by examining how the considered organizations construct their engagement in society and talk of their aspirations on identi...