{"id":7207,"date":"2025-08-19T15:02:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T15:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aomtodayprod.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=7207"},"modified":"2025-08-19T19:02:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T19:02:35","slug":"a-ceos-social-activism-doesnt-equal-a-firm-commitment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aom.org\/today\/a-ceos-social-activism-doesnt-equal-a-firm-commitment\/","title":{"rendered":"A CEO\u2019s Social Activism Doesn\u2019t Equal a Firm Commitment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aom.org\/today\/author\/daniel-butcher\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Butcher<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While CEOs speaking out about social or political issues is notable, it shouldn\u2019t be conflated with corporate social responsibility (CSR), which requires organizational policies and initiatives benefiting a broad set of stakeholders.<\/p>\n<p>Academy of Management Scholar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aom.org\/today\/donald-hambrick\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Hambrick<\/a> of Pennsylvania State University, who cowrote <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aom.org\/doi\/10.5465\/amr.2018.0084\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an article in <em>Academy of Management Review<\/em><\/a> with coauthor Adam Wowak of the University of Notre Dame on this topic, cited two landmark cases:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tim Cook of Apple writing a letter in The Washington Post and other news outlets criticizing a bill in Indiana that he thought was discriminating against gays and lesbians.<\/li>\n<li>Ken Frazier of Merck &amp; Co. speaking out against U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s response to the \u201cUnite the Right\u201d white-supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2018.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cCEO activism is really just words, but they\u2019re publicly voiced, not privately voiced, and so, like an antigen in a body, they evoke reactions that may be supportive and potentially antagonistic,\u201d Hambrick said. \u201cCorporate social responsibility, on the other hand, is a firm\u2019s actions\u2014CSR requires leaders to make decisions to take concrete actions to reduce pollution, to improve opportunities for women or underrepresented categories, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re concrete actions\u2014now, sometimes there are some cases where a CEO will pair activism or words with company action.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hambrick cited the example of Ed Stack, CEO of Dick\u2019s Sporting Goods, who, after a tragic mass school shooting, went on national media to say that the U.S. needs gun control.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s activism, and he followed it up by saying, \u2018We are no longer going to sell assault rifles or any assault-style weapons in our stores\u2019\u2014that\u2019s CSR,\u201d Hambrick said. \u201cBut they don\u2019t necessarily always go hand-in-hand\u2014they aren\u2019t always paired together like that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe activism can really evoke strong sentiments, but it is just words, and so it seems hollow or cheap if the CEO doesn\u2019t back it up with concrete action.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><em>A sample of Hambrick\u2019s AOM research findings:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aom.org\/doi\/10.5465\/amr.2018.0426.summary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Four CEO Mindsets Can Affect Their Replacements\u2019 Transitions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aom.org\/doi\/10.5465\/amj.2020.0435.summary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How CEOs Become A-List Stars<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aom.org\/doi\/10.5465\/amr.2016.0064.summary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Celebrity CEOs Often Get Typecast into One of Four Roles<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aom.org\/doi\/10.5465\/ame.2001.5897655.summary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Are You Sure You Have a Strategy?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Daniel Butcher While CEOs speaking out about social or political issues is notable, it shouldn\u2019t be conflated with corporate social responsibility (CSR), which requires organizational policies and initiatives benefiting a broad set of stakeholders. 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