Mapping Three Decades of Relationship between Ethical Leadership & employee-CSR: A Bibliometric Analysis and Future Research Agenda
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Abstract
While the domains of Ethical Leadership (EL) and employee-CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) are well developed individually, the relationship between the two has received less attention (theme). Many firms have been deploying CSR strategies for quite some time. However, the role of employee CSR in relation to EL has not yet been studied extensively. EL has a seminal role in influencing employees’ perception of organisational CSR activities, thus causing employees to perform over and beyond their everyday job responsibilities. From the extant literature, it appears that this relationship between EL and employee CSR has not been reviewed through systematic literature. Since the body of CSR literature has exploded post-2018, there is a need to lay bare the scientific structure of the theme to scholars. Therefore, on the theme, we undertook a bibliometric analysis of the EL-employee-CSR relationship behaviour of research papers published in the last three decades. Our significant contribution through the systematic literature review is to motivate scholars to take up research in this under-developed area of 1) the role of employee-CSR in organisations, 2) the role of EL in employee-CSR and 3) the self-identification of employees within an organisation.