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100 1 0 _aGatignon-Turnau
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700 1 0 _a Puech, Lucie
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700 1 0 _a Fabre, Catherine
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245 0 0 _aUnderstanding social intrapreneurship in the light of the psychological contract: A challenge for CSR?
260 _c2018.
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520 _aThis paper aims to shed light on the employment relationship of the social intrapreneur, who is a central figure in the implementation of “bottom up” CSR practices. Through these practices, the organization encourages citizens’ initiatives taken by collaborators on its behalf. To better understand the relationship between the intrapreneur and their organization, we adopt an exploratory qualitative methodology and analyze our data through a coding process derived from the psychological contract theory developed by Rousseau (1995). We apply this theoretical framework to a French insurance company, which has deliberately chosen to launch a citizen project based on social intrapreneurship. Having followed the project over two years, we were able to analyze the relational dynamic between the organization and its collaborators, who became “social intrapreneurs.” We show that the psychological contract of the intrapreneur adds new reciprocal obligations to that of the employee, to which employees principally give an ideological meaning. Moreover, when these new reciprocal obligations are not observed, this weakens the psychological contract and undermines the sustainability of social intrapreneurs’ commitment to the organization. These results enable us to contribute to the literature on intrapreneurs’ human resources management, and to formulate suggestions to improve the implementation of bottom-up CSR policies.
690 _aideology
690 _apsychological contract
690 _asocial intrapreneurship
690 _aCSR policy
690 _aideology
690 _apsychological contract
690 _asocial intrapreneurship
690 _aCSR policy
786 0 _nRevue de gestion des ressources humaines | o 107 | 1 | 2018-02-26 | p. 34-51 | 1163-913X
856 4 1 _uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-revue-de-gestion-des-ressources-humaines-2018-1-page-34?lang=en
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