On May 18th, the Fifth Forum on Management Philosophy and Organizational Ecology with the theme of “Chinese Traditional Culture and Modernization of Organizational Management” and the Award Ceremony of “Li Zhanxiang Outstanding Paper Award in Management Philosophy” (2024) were held, as well as the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Chinese Management Committee of the Chinese Institute of Business Administration. Professor Xin Jie and doctoral student Zhang Xin of the School of Management, Shandong University won the 5th Li Zhanxiang Outstanding Paper Award in Management Philosophy for the paper “Takes Benevolence and Filial Piety as the Foundation: The Originating Mechanism and the Sequence Evolution Path of Corporate Social Responsibility - Taking Chambroad Group as an Example”.
The paper embodies the management philosophy and management thought: the core and key point of Chinese traditional culture is to return to the ontology of “Tao”, “Conscience” and “Consciousness”, and follow the logical path from ontology to cognition to methodology. In Confucianism, it is to “study deep into the root of the matter; dig into the heart of fact to find the correct answer and knowledge; be open, honest and truthful without deception or hypocrisy; maintain a true heart and get away with evil thinking; develop our own self, thinking, and behavior; keep the family in a harmonious environment with proper respect to individual members; rule the country peacefully with education and good governmental policies; and rule the whole world in a peaceful manner with good ruling policies”. And in Taoism, it is “Out of Tao, One is born; Out of One, Two; Out of Two, Three; Out of Three, the created universe.” Chambroad takes benevolence and filial piety as the foundation, uses the foundation to generate specific corporate social responsibility (CSR) behaviors and CSR mechanisms, and fulfills its CSR through the evolutionary path of “Honoring Leaders - Fulfilling Employees - Supporting Partners - Benefiting Society”. Through the three internal mechanisms of “mental model embedding - trust network embedding - symbiotic value embedding”, the concept of “taking benevolence and filial piety as the foundation” is embedded in the fulfillment process of CSR, reflecting the everlasting cultural efficacy. The paper interprets the Chinese CSR fulfillment program as "The gentleman devotes his attention to the basic of things. When he has mastered the basics, he will find the Way". Compared with the previous research of the Western stakeholder paradigm based on the philosophy of dichotomy, it reshapes the cognition and practice of social responsibility with the originating mechanism and the sequence evolution path of the Chinese cultural wisdom, and depicts a picture of the contradictory relationship between “master” and “guest” and “self-interest” and “altruism” in the CSR fulfillment. It responds to Professor Li Zhanxiang’s important initiative of using “contradiction analysis” to construct management research in China.
The Center for Management Philosophy and Organizational Ecosystem (MPOE) of Renmin University of China pursues the concept of honoring commitment and taking practical actions, is rooted in enterprise practice and is committed to integrating the wisdom of Chinese and Western management to inherit the governance spirit of the older generation of management scholars represented by Professor Li Zhanxiang, etc. It explores the major issues of Chinese enterprises from the philosophical perspective and endeavors to construct a theoretical system of enterprise management with Chinese characteristics, contributing to the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Up to now, four sessions of the Forum on Management Philosophy and Organizational Ecology and the Award Ceremony of “Li Zhanxiang Outstanding Paper Award in Management Philosophy” have been held in Renmin University of China (September 2020), Northeast University of Finance and Economics (July 2021), Nanjing University (November 2022), and Zhejiang University of Commerce and Industry (July 2023). In each session, 5-6 papers were selected as Li Zhanxiang Outstanding Paper Award in Management Philosophy (a total of 23 papers in 4 sessions) and 3 papers as Li Zhanxiang Paper Award in Management Philosophy for Youths (6 papers in the last 2 sessions). A number of award-winning papers have been published in authoritative academic journals such as Management World, China Industrial Economy, Management Review, Foreign Economics and Management, and Journal of Knowledge Management.
Xin Jie is a professor and doctoral supervisor of the School of Management, Shandong University, Ph.D. in Management, Postdoctoral Fellow in Applied Economics, Director of China Management Research Association, Executive Director of China Business Ethics Association, Vice President and Secretary General of Shandong Comparative Management Research Association, Member of Shandong Calligraphers Association, and Director of Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Association of Colleges and Universities. He has published more than 60 management papers in the Journal of Business Ethics, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, China Soft Science Magazine, Scientific Research Management, Studies of Science of Science, Business Management Journal, Chinese Journal of Management, Management Review, and other academic journals. Among them, 7 papers have been reprinted in full text by Renda Periodicals or extracted from the arguments of Xinhua Digest, and 3 monographs have been published. He has led many programs of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the National Social Science Fund of China and won 4 Shandong Province Social Science Outstanding Achievement Awards. He was awarded the First Prize of the First Shandong Province College Teachers Lecture Competition, the Second Prize of the First College Teachers Lecture Competition of the Ministry of Education, and the First Prize of the Second Rongzhi Academic Award for Corporate Social Responsibility. He has provided consulting and training services for many companies.
Zhang Xin, a doctoral candidate at the School of Management, Shandong University, has published management papers in Science & Technology Progress and Policy, Collected Essays on Finance and Economies, Journal of Business Economics and other academic journals, and was awarded the First Prize of the Second Rongzhi Academic Award for Corporate Social Responsibility.
