Monfort, Abel, López-Vázquez, Belén and Villagra, Nuria Exploring stakeholders’ dialogue and corporate social responsibility (CSR) on Twitter. El profesional de la información, 2019, vol. 28, n. 5. [Journal article (Unpaginated)]
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Social networks are an opportunity to foster and strengthen dialogue between companies and their audiences and also to integrate social expectations into their corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategies. This research analyses communication on CSR on Twitter and its main objectives are: 1) to analyze if there are CSR concepts which can lead the conversation among Twitter users and companies when discourse is limited to CSR related concepts; and 2) to detect those concepts which might create engagement (underlying conversations) between companies and Twitter users. Our research is focused on insurance companies included in the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI). The methodology used is qualitative and the sample comprises more than 8,500 tweets which include a set of keywords related to CSR, that were published by the companies in the sample and/or mentioned those companies. The results show that industry-related words, financial performance messages and the local activities of the company are opportunities to spread the CSR commitment. We concluded that communication is scarce between companies and users related to CSR. In general,companies and users shared interests, but these were not related to a real conversation about CSR and sustainability.
Item type: | Journal article (Unpaginated) |
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Keywords: | Corporate social responsibility; CSR; Stakeholders’ dialogue; Corporate communication; Social media; Organizational communication; Twitter. |
Subjects: | B. Information use and sociology of information > BJ. Communication B. Information use and sociology of information > BC. Information in society. B. Information use and sociology of information > BD. Information society. G. Industry, profession and education. > GD. Organizations. H. Information sources, supports, channels. > HT. Web 2.0, Social networks |
Depositing user: | Ignacio Gárate-Alarcón |
Date deposited: | 03 Dec 2019 11:20 |
Last modified: | 03 Dec 2019 11:20 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10760/39282 |
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