Using findings from an inductive study of two high-hazard organizations and insights from behavioral ethics literature, we build a model illustrating the behavioral foundations of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). We show that employees in high-hazard organizations scrutinize their work, actively deciding how to alter work tasks and boundaries and persevering through obstacles to lay the groundwork for CSR. Central to this process is employee moral awareness—the awareness of one's activities and the consequences those activities may have on others—through which they translate organizational hazards into their work decisions. Our findings further suggest that moral awareness is more dynamic than previously conceptualized, continually assembled, and reassembled through the active exchange and deployment of scientific and moral principles. In contrast to the extant literature that prioritizes the unitary nature of CSR and its top-down effects, our findings uncover individual-level ethical decisions as its foundation and identify moral awareness and work scrutinization as mechanisms through which individuals lay the groundwork for CSR.

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为企业社会责任奠定基础：高危组织中的行为道德

利用对两个高危组织的归纳研究结果和行为伦理文献的见解，我们建立了一个模型来说明企业社会责任 (CSR) 的行为基础。我们表明，高危组织中的员工会仔细审视自己的工作，积极决定如何改变工作任务和界限，并克服障碍坚持不懈，为企业社会责任奠定基础。这一过程的核心是员工的道德意识——对自己的活动以及这些活动可能对他人产生的后果的认识——通过这种意识，他们将组织风险转化为工作决策。我们的研究结果进一步表明，道德意识比以前概念化的更加动态，通过科学和道德原则的积极交流和部署不断组装和重新组装。现有文献优先考虑企业社会责任的统一性及其自上而下的影响，与此相反，我们的研究结果揭示了个人层面的道德决策是其基础，并将道德意识和工作审查确定为个人为企业社会责任奠定基础的机制。