Social Responsibility Insights: A Detailed Article Review

This literature review summarizes three articles focusing on social responsibility. The first article, "Gender Effects on Perceptions of Individual and Corporate Social Responsibility," finds that women have higher levels of Internalized Moral Identity and believe organizations should be more beneficial to society, leading to a higher quality of corporate social responsibility. The second article, "Group Effects on Individual Attitudes toward Social Responsibility," discovers a correlation between absolute and relative social responsibility, with absolute social responsibility being more prone to group dynamics. The third article, "The Individual Social Responsibility: Insights from a Literature Review," identifies a limited increase in the relevance of individual social responsibility within academia, highlighting the importance of altruism, prosocial behavior, and individual responsibility towards society. The review concludes that while each article addresses social responsibility from a different angle, they collectively underscore its multifaceted nature and importance.

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Summary of the Article
Article 1- Gender Effects on Perceptions of Individuals and Corporate
The main Objective of this article is to explore on the effects of gender on the CSR
and ISR perceptions (Droms & Stephen, 2015). The study have bridged the gap in between
CSR and ISR as well as provided a clear understanding of it by assessing whether or not
gender differences prevails in the CSR and ISR perceptions. There is growing importance for
both the organisations as well as the individuals to act in socially responsible way. This
article has provided a clear understanding of the fact that gender do play an important part in
the making of perceptions of the social responsibility of the companies. For this study, survey
research method has been used, where the authors of the study have designed a survey in
order to examine different perceptions of the individuals along with the corporate social
responsibility in a group of undergraduate learners. The Results of the study indicates that
there are several significant differences in the relationship in between CSR and ISR,
depending on the diversity in gender groups. It has been found out that gender inclusive
leadership and gender diversity, both have a very significant and positive impact on the
quality and level of social responsibility. It has also found from the study that women have
comparatively higher degrees of Internalized Moral Identity as compared to men. It is
recommended that the arguments provided by the authors should make more sense. There
should be more space devoted to each of the parts of the arguments.
Article 2- Group Effects on Individual Attitudes toward Social Responsibility
The main objective of the authors of this article is to assess the effects of group on the
attitudes of the individual towards the social responsibility when they are revealed to the
group dynamics (Secchi & Bui, 2018). The SR (Social Responsibility) has been formerly
associated with several different perspectives like the traditional theory of firm, stakeholders,

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stewardship, sustainability, corporate citizenship, recruitment, job satisfaction and many
more. Most of the perspectives address the organisational or the corporate level of the
analysis. Formerly, the studies of the SR were concerned with the relationship between the
external environment and the businesses. This research is concerned with the manner in
which individuals perceive organisational SR. In this primary research, quantitative data
analysis method has been used. It also makes use of quasi-experimental design. The results of
the study shows that the individuals who are with low attitudes towards the social
responsibility are more prone to change their very opinions when the members of the group
exhibit more positive attitudes towards the social responsibility. It also demonstrates that the
relative social responsibility is interlinked with absolute social responsibility, although there
are different from each other and the latter is much more vulnerable to the relative social
responsibility to group dynamics. It is recommended that the claims that are made to be
stacked up with more data and analysis to ensure the relevancy of the assessment and result.
Article 3- The Individual Social Responsibility: Insights from a Literature Review
The main objective of this article is to provide an insight of the prevailing body of
literature on the individual social responsibility as well as to identify the most important
studies in this field (Pacesila, 2018). The main contribution of this article is the elaboration of
the framework of individual social responsibility through systematizing the conclusions and
findings of the publications within the same theme. The findings of this article are all aligned
with the previous researches and studies and they contribute to the further promotion of
individual social responsibility as one of the research filed. The main importance of this
article lies on the fact that the pressures from the wealthy societies for the purpose of
decisions and actions with comparatively less impact on the environment and people is
significantly increasing. The article has performed a systematic literature review in order to
assess large number of information for identifying relevant aspects in this field. However,

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there is very little research evidences provided by this article in the context of social
responsibility within the academia. It has also been analysed after assessing the article that it
is very difficult to do systematic review in this research area as because of the fact that the
papers are also spread across many different journal that many a times, could not be accessed
by the databases. Hence, it is recommended that the article must highlight the importance of
this topic at the national, local as well as international level as well.
Discussion and Conclusion
To conclude, it can be said that the above mentioned three articles have elaborated
focusing on a single issue of social responsibility. According to the article “Gender Effects on
Perceptions of Individual and Corporate Social Responsibility”, it has been found that women
have higher level of Internalized Moral Identity than that is possessed by men. They believe
that the organisations should be more beneficial to the society and this translates into a much
higher quality of corporate social responsibility. The key elements of this paper is corporate
social responsibility. Secondly, the article “Group Effects on Individual Attitudes toward
Social Responsibility” has found out that there is a correlation in between absolute social
responsibility and relative social responsibility, notwithstanding the fact that the absolute
social responsibility is much more prone to group dynamics as compared to the latter one.
The key elements of this article are- (1) Individual social responsibility (2) Group dynamic
(3) Attitudes toward social responsibility (4) Relative and absolute social responsibility and
(5) Socialisation. Lastly, in the third article “The Individual Social Responsibility: Insights
from a Literature Review” it has been identified that there is very little increase in the
relevancy of the issue of individual social responsibility within academia. They key elements
of this article are (1) altruism (2) prosocial behaviour and (3) responsibility of individual
towards society.

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Reference:
Droms Hatch, C., & Stephen, S. A. (2015). Gender effects on perceptions of individual and
corporate social responsibility. Journal of Applied Business and Economics, 17(3), 63.
Păceşilă, M. (2018). THE INDIVIDUAL SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: INSIGHTS FROM
A LITERATURE REVIEW. Management Research and Practice, 10(1), 17-26.
Secchi, D., & Bui, H. T. (2018). Group effects on individual attitudes toward social
responsibility. Journal of Business Ethics, 149(3), 725-746.