vgmsc

Department of Management, Society and Communication

  • CBS Sustainability Centre
  • Centre for Business and Development Studies (CBDS)
Verena
Girschik
Associate professor


Room: DH.Ø.2.28
E-mail: vg.msc@cbs.dk
Verena Girschik
Presentation

I am an Assistant Professor in CSR, Communication and Organization. My research explores the intra- and inter-organizational dynamics of CSR. Building on institutional and communication perspectives, I currently focus on two main areas.

  1. The responsibilities of companies in the contexts of complex societal problems and humanitarian crises. Focusing on dynamics between companies, governments, NGOs, and other societal actors, my research explores how companies negotiate their roles and responsibilites, how they perform them, and to what consequences.
     
  2. The role of internal activists in transforming companies from the inside out. I explore the intra-organizational politics of corporate responsibility by asking how internal activists work and under what organizational conditions they may thrive.
Primary research areas
  • Corporate responsibility
  • Complex societal problems and humanitarian crises
  • Institutional change and innovation
  • Communication
Social media
Links
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Courses

Germany as a Global Actor (MSc BLC)
The Corporation in Society (BSc BLC)
International Business, Responsibility and Communication (CM kom)

PhD course: Case-study approaches to theory building

Supervision

I supervise master theses within the scope of my research interests

Publications sorted by:
2023
Jasper J. Hotho; Verena Girschik; Jakob Lutz / How Europe's Largest Companies Supported Humanitarian Relief for Ukraine in 2022
Frederiksberg : Copenhagen Business School, CBS 2023, 16 p.
Report
2022
Anna Stöber; Verena Girschik / Caught between Two Worlds : Constructing the Purposeful Self in a Community of Corporate Change Activists.
Paper presented at 38th EGOS Colloquium 2022, 2022
Paper > peer review
Verena Girschik; Jette Steen Knudsen; Jeremy Moon / Corporations as Governance Actors
Paper presented at SASE 34th Annual Conference 2022, 2022
Paper > peer review
Verena Girschik; Liudmyla Svystunova; Evgenia I. Lysova / Transforming Corporate Social Responsibilities : Toward an Intellectual Activist Research Agenda for Micro-CSR Research.
In: Human Relations, Vol. 75, No. 1, 1.2022, p. 3-32
Journal article > peer review
2021
Dennis Schoeneborn; Verena Girschik / Managing CSR Communication
In: Handbook of Management Communication. ed. /François Cooren; Peter Stücheli-Herlach. Berlin : De Gruyter 2021, p. 443-458 (Handbooks of Applied Linguistics, Vol. 16)
Book chapter > peer review
Verena Girschik; Jasper J. Hotho / Managing the Unavoidable : New Avenues for Research on MNEs and Societal Crises.
In: A Research Agenda for International Business and Management . ed. /Ödül Bozkurt. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing 2021, p. 175-194
Book chapter > peer review
2020
Verena Girschik / Managing Legitimacy in Business‐driven Social Change : The Role of Relational Work.
In: Journal of Management Studies, Vol. 57, No. 4, 6.2020, p. 775-804
Journal article > peer review
Verena Girschik / Shared Responsibility for Societal Problems : The Role of Internal Activists in Reframing Corporate Responsibility.
In: Business & Society, Vol. 59, No. 1, 1.2020, p. 34-66
Journal article > peer review
2019
Jasper J. Hotho; Verena Girschik / Corporate Engagement in Humanitarian Action : Concepts, Challenges, and Areas for International Business Research.
In: Critical Perspectives on International Business, Vol. 15, No. 2/3, 2019, p. 201-218
Journal article > peer review
2016
Verena Girschik / Realizing Corporate Responsibility : Positioning and Framing in Nascent Institutional Change.
Frederiksberg : Copenhagen Business School [Phd] 2016, 149 p. (PhD series, No. 03.2016)
PhD thesis
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Research Projects
Outside activities

Currently no outside activities