CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2022
| Author | Boin, Melina Celine Gertraud Ann |
|---|---|
| Title | Farce, Frankenstein, or Future Model? A Policy Evaluation of Germany's Trial to Foster Corporate Digital Responsibility |
| Summary | With the digital transformation gaining speed, policymakers are ought to find in various sectors, but especially the profit-driven corporate sector, new ways of fostering a responsible digitalization. That said, and against the backdrop of Kramer and Porter’s critical opinion of mandatory Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives laid out in ‘Strategy & Society, the Link between Competitive Advantage and Corporate Social Responsibility’, I will evaluate in this paper the viability of the so-called Corporate Digital Responsibility (CDR)-Initiative by the German government in which companies can voluntarily join and for their benefit exchange experiences and best practices in CDR, but once member must comply with certain principles and goals found to be a prerequisite for a human-centered digitalization. To do so, I decided to interview CDR-practitioners and scientists in accordance with Vedung’s goal-attainment and side-effects model for analyzing whether the CDR-initiative led to an increase in CDR and what the side effects were for participating companies and society. Thereby, the findings indicated that the German CDR-initiative can be considered a future model as its setup transfers the responsibility from consumer choice to the companies, creating more awareness for the topic, while member companies can profit from the exchange, ministerial approval, and (media) attention. |
| Supervisor | Maciej Kisilowski |
| Department | Public Policy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2022/boin_melina.pdf |
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