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TY - JOUR
T1 - What drives socially responsible design in organizations?
T2 - empirical evidence from South Korea
AU - Koo, Yoori
AU - Cooper, Rachel
N1 - This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in The Design Journal on 10/10/2016, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/14606925.2016.1216211
PY - 2016/11/1
Y1 - 2016/11/1
N2 - This paper presents the results of a study that investigates designers’ underlying motivations for socially responsible decision-making within an organization and identifies the empirical link between the level of designers’ awareness of corporate social responsibility (CSR)-related issues, the degree of firms’ design management capacities and their perceived performance in terms of socially responsible design (SRD) in organizations. Using large samples targeted across the range of designers in South Korea, the current study empirically supports that SRD decisions are determined in large part by important interaction between the designers’ true beliefs and the firm’s level of CSR. Our results also show that a firm’s design management capacity plays a significant role in integrating environmental and social issues into product and service development and achieving better SRD performance and ultimately CSR goals within organizations.
AB - This paper presents the results of a study that investigates designers’ underlying motivations for socially responsible decision-making within an organization and identifies the empirical link between the level of designers’ awareness of corporate social responsibility (CSR)-related issues, the degree of firms’ design management capacities and their perceived performance in terms of socially responsible design (SRD) in organizations. Using large samples targeted across the range of designers in South Korea, the current study empirically supports that SRD decisions are determined in large part by important interaction between the designers’ true beliefs and the firm’s level of CSR. Our results also show that a firm’s design management capacity plays a significant role in integrating environmental and social issues into product and service development and achieving better SRD performance and ultimately CSR goals within organizations.
KW - socially responsible design (SRD) decision-making
KW - design management capacity
KW - new product and service development processes
KW - eco-entrepreneurship
KW - corporate social responsibility (CSR)
U2 - 10.1080/14606925.2016.1216211
DO - 10.1080/14606925.2016.1216211
M3 - Journal article
VL - 19
SP - 879
EP - 901
JO - The Design Journal
JF - The Design Journal
SN - 1460-6925
IS - 6
ER -