Problematic presuppositions in corporate philanthropy research: Reflexivity and reframing.

This puzzle has fueled plenty of research into the motives of organizational decision makers for engaging in philanthropy, making up to 44% of all empirical research on corporate philanthropy according to some counts ([22]). Second, the presupposition that there must be nonphilanthropic motives behind corporate philanthropy is academically unnecessary for studies of corporate philanthropy, because the arguments can in most cases be easily rearticulated to avoid such a presupposition. The phenomenon of corporate giving or philanthropy has been among the topics of interest for management and organization studies since more than half a century ago ([29]; [53]). [Extracted from the article]