In order to develop sustainable business strategies to tackle grand societal challenges, it is essential to understand how society perceives the role of business firms in this context and what it demands for the future.
Anna Jasinenko is an Assistant Professor (tenure track) of Organizational Behavior at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. She holds a PhD in management from the HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management and a Master’s degree in psychology from the University of Vienna (both with the highest distinctions). Her dissertation titled “Public Value: Opportunities and Challenges to Capture the Organizational Contribution to the Common Good” received the Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation’s Best Dissertation Award 2022.
In her research, Dr. Jasinenko applies a social evaluation lens to conceptualize, measure, and manage organizational approaches to contribute to the common good. Thereby, she examines the examines the micro-foundations of responsible and sustainable business practices, such as organizational purpose, public value and corporate social responsibility (CSR). Moreover, she researches how individual sustainability competencies, such as the Inner Development Goals, can be developed. Her work was published in peer-reviewed academic journals, such as the Journal of Management Studies, the Journal of Business Research, the International Public Management Journal, or the Journal for Business, Economics, and Ethics (zfwu).
Legitimacy as a Multi-level Judgment: Experimental Evidence (SNSF Project)
The research project seeks to advance the multi-level analysis of legitimacy by drawing on recent conceptual work which has differentiated the legitimacy construct into propriety and validity (Bitektine & Haack, 2015) and experimental approaches, such as the deliberative experiment.
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Grand Challenges and the Role of Business Firms (E4S Project)
Grand challenges represent global societal challenges of ecological or social nature, such as the transition to a carbon-free economy, fighting global inequality, and tackling precarious working conditions that are emerging as a result of digitalization and robotization. These challenges are complex and thus require the coordinated and sustained effort from several public and private actors, including business firms.
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Anna Jasinenko & Josephina Steuber
An increasing number of managers and scholars agree that organizations need to have a purpose that goes beyond pure profit maximization. But what exactly represents a higher organizational purpose? How can we measure it? And how will it affect the organization’s employees?
Anna Jasinenko, Fabian Christandl, and Timo Meynhardt
Can individuals’ political ideology predict how they judge CSR and respond to it? If conservatives versus liberals differ in their CSR responses, why is this the case?
Timo Meynhardt and Anna Jasinenko
The public value concept is highly popular among practitioners and researchers, yet, to further test and develop the construct it needs morediversity in empirical research. We aim to contribute to future empirical public value research by providing a new public value scale based on Meynhardt’s conceptualization of public value.
Timo Meynhardt, Anna Jasinenko, and Thorben Grubert
The Common Good Balance Sheet is an instrument to measure a company’s contribution to the common good. Based on a representative empirical survey in Germany, we approach the question of democratic legitimacy of the common good conceptualization of this balance sheet.
Autorenlinie und Veröffentlichung in Journal XY
Will the Covid-19 pandemic change peoples’ opinions about business responsibility? If this continues, the pandemic might break old routines and ultimately generate new ways of thinking.
Autorenlinie und Veröffentlichung in Journal XY
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Anna Jasinenko, Patrick Haack, and Derek Harmon
Will the Covid-19 pandemic change peoples’ opinions about business responsibility? If this continues, the pandemic might break old routines and ultimately generate new ways of thinking.
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