Why do corporate actors engage in pro-social behaviour? A Bourdieusian perspective on corporate social responsibility
运用布迪厄的社会实践理论，将企业亲社会行为视为管理者获取社会权力的社会实践，分析社会场域、管理者性情和资本存量如何影响企业社会责任的实施。
Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of social practice, this article develops a novel approach to the study of corporate social responsibility (CSR). According to this approach, pro-social activities are conceptualized as social practices that individual managers employ in their efforts to attain social power. Whether such practices are enacted or not depends on (1) the particular features of the social field; (2) the individual managers’ socially shaped dispositions and (3) their stock of different forms of capital. By combining these theoretical concepts, the Bourdieusian approach we develop highlights the interplay between the economic and non-economic motivations that underlie CSR, acknowledging influences both on the micro- and the macro-level, as well as deterministic and voluntaristic aspects of human behaviour.