The processes of defining corporate responsibility: a study of Swedish garment retailers' responsibility
基于行动者网络理论，研究了1996至2004年间瑞典服装零售商对供应商工厂工人责任的定义过程，揭示定义过程是解释权的争夺，非主导方可能暂时获胜并主导进程。
Abstract Despite extensive research on corporate responsibility, little research exists on how the inter‐organizational processes of defining corporate responsibility develop. In this paper, we present a framework based on actor‐network theory (ANT) for analysing these processes. The developed framework is illustrated in a study of the redefinition of Swedish garment retailers' responsibilities for workers' rights at suppliers' factories between 1996 and 2004. We show that definition processes can be characterized as battles for the right to interpretation, and that traditionally non‐dominant actors can, at least temporarily, win these battles and dictate the development of the processes for defining corporate responsibility. We also show that definition processes can take an exclusionary form prohibiting certain actors from participating. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.