Charlotte M Karam
Biographic Data
| ID | 4149595 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charlotte M Karam |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charlotte M |
| FAMILY NAME | Karam |
| SIGNATURE | KARAM C M |
| AFFILIATIONS | American University of Beirut |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5118-4012 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Speaking Across Silences
Sites of contestation
Social justice movements are often portrayed as unified, yet they are frequently shaped by internal tensions over meaning, priorities, and strategies for action. While Frame Theory recognizes that collective action frames are contested, existing research has tended to model framing as a relatively stable and linear process. This article examines how framing tensions operate as generative dynamics within feminist organizing rather than as obstacle…
A feminist-affordance lens
Purpose The authors explore the entanglement of smartphone technology and power in this paper. This paper explores the following question: In what ways does the actualization of smartphone affordances result in empowering outcomes (i.e. increase or reduce oppression) in the daily lives of refugees? Leveraging both affordance and feminist theories, the authors develop a hybrid lens bringing attention to the contextualized relationship between soci…
Attitudes of millennials toward corporate responsibility
Purpose We examined the attitudes of millennial-aged business students toward economic, social and environmental corporate responsibility (CR). Currently, these individuals are of an age that they have entered the workforce and are now ascending or have ascended into roles of leadership in which they have decision-making power that influences their company’s CR agenda and implementation. Thus, following the ecological systems perspective, we test…
Intimate Partner Violence and Business
In this article, we conceptualize the under investigated and under theorized relationship between intimate partner violence (IPV) and business responsibility. As an urgent social issue, IPV—understood as abuse of power within the context of an intimate partner relationship, mainly perpetrated by men and involving a pattern of behavior—has been studied for decades in many disciplines. A less common yet vital research perspective is to examine IPV …
Ethics at the Centre of Global and Local Challenges
To commemorate 40 years since the founding of the Journal of Business Ethics, the editors in chief of the journal have invited the editors to provide commentaries on the future of business ethics. This essay comprises a selection of commentaries aimed at creating dialogue around the theme Ethics at the centre of global and local challenges . For much of the history of the Journal of Business Ethics, ethics was seen within the academy as a periphe…
The impact of gender-role-orientations on subjective career success
Multilevel power dynamics shaping employer anti-sexual harassment efforts in Lebanon
Purpose The #MeToo movement against sexual harassment (SH) has sparked a sense of familiarity, and collective anger among women, highlighting it as a pervasive and common experience across the globe. The purpose of this paper is to argue that despite shared experiences and such transnational movements, the ways in which SH is actually understood and combated are likely to be different in disparate National Business Systems (NBS). Through the anal…
Career constructions and a feminist standpoint on the meaning of context
This paper explores how context shapes the career constructions of 40 Lebanese female professionals. Starting with career construction theory (CCT), we leverage feminist standpoint theory (FST) to propose a hybrid analytic framework. With this framework, we invite CCT researchers to theorize career constructions as situated. The situatedness of career constructions calls for the exploration of an individual's career choices, coupled with the simu…
Corporate Social Responsibility in Developing Countries as an Emerging Field of Study
Given the rising interest in corporate social responsibility (CSR) globally, its local expressions are as varied as they are increasingly visible in both developed and developing countries. This paper presents a multilevel review of the literature on CSR in developing countries and highlights the key differentiators and nuanced CSR‐related considerations that qualify it as a distinctive field of study. This review entails a content analysis of 45…
A failure before analysis
Purpose A large and growing number of researchers set out to cross-culturally examine empirical relationships. The purpose of this paper is to provide researchers, who are new to multicountry investigations, a discussion of the issues that one needs to address in order to be properly prepared to begin the cross-cultural analyses of relationships. Design/methodology/approach Thus, the authors consider two uniquely different but integrally connecte…
Walking a tightrope or navigating a web
Culture's influence on the perception of OCB as in-role or extra-role
Culture's influence on the perception of OCB as in-role or extra-role
Career constructions and a feminist standpoint on the meaning of context
This paper explores how context shapes the career constructions of 40 Lebanese female professionals. Starting with career construction theory (CCT), we leverage feminist standpoint theory (FST) to propose a hybrid analytic framework. With this framework, we invite CCT researchers to theorize career constructions as situated. The situatedness of career constructions calls for the exploration of an individual's career choices, coupled with the simu…
Walking a tightrope or navigating a web
Multilevel power dynamics shaping employer anti-sexual harassment efforts in Lebanon
Purpose The #MeToo movement against sexual harassment (SH) has sparked a sense of familiarity, and collective anger among women, highlighting it as a pervasive and common experience across the globe. The purpose of this paper is to argue that despite shared experiences and such transnational movements, the ways in which SH is actually understood and combated are likely to be different in disparate National Business Systems (NBS). Through the anal…
Attitudes of millennials toward corporate responsibility
Purpose We examined the attitudes of millennial-aged business students toward economic, social and environmental corporate responsibility (CR). Currently, these individuals are of an age that they have entered the workforce and are now ascending or have ascended into roles of leadership in which they have decision-making power that influences their company’s CR agenda and implementation. Thus, following the ecological systems perspective, we test…
Culture's influence on the perception of OCB as in-role or extra-role
Walking a tightrope or navigating a web
A failure before analysis
Purpose A large and growing number of researchers set out to cross-culturally examine empirical relationships. The purpose of this paper is to provide researchers, who are new to multicountry investigations, a discussion of the issues that one needs to address in order to be properly prepared to begin the cross-cultural analyses of relationships. Design/methodology/approach Thus, the authors consider two uniquely different but integrally connecte…
Corporate Social Responsibility in Developing Countries as an Emerging Field of Study
Given the rising interest in corporate social responsibility (CSR) globally, its local expressions are as varied as they are increasingly visible in both developed and developing countries. This paper presents a multilevel review of the literature on CSR in developing countries and highlights the key differentiators and nuanced CSR‐related considerations that qualify it as a distinctive field of study. This review entails a content analysis of 45…
Career constructions and a feminist standpoint on the meaning of context
This paper explores how context shapes the career constructions of 40 Lebanese female professionals. Starting with career construction theory (CCT), we leverage feminist standpoint theory (FST) to propose a hybrid analytic framework. With this framework, we invite CCT researchers to theorize career constructions as situated. The situatedness of career constructions calls for the exploration of an individual's career choices, coupled with the simu…
Multilevel power dynamics shaping employer anti-sexual harassment efforts in Lebanon
Purpose The #MeToo movement against sexual harassment (SH) has sparked a sense of familiarity, and collective anger among women, highlighting it as a pervasive and common experience across the globe. The purpose of this paper is to argue that despite shared experiences and such transnational movements, the ways in which SH is actually understood and combated are likely to be different in disparate National Business Systems (NBS). Through the anal…
Ethics at the Centre of Global and Local Challenges
To commemorate 40 years since the founding of the Journal of Business Ethics, the editors in chief of the journal have invited the editors to provide commentaries on the future of business ethics. This essay comprises a selection of commentaries aimed at creating dialogue around the theme Ethics at the centre of global and local challenges . For much of the history of the Journal of Business Ethics, ethics was seen within the academy as a periphe…
The impact of gender-role-orientations on subjective career success
Intimate Partner Violence and Business
In this article, we conceptualize the under investigated and under theorized relationship between intimate partner violence (IPV) and business responsibility. As an urgent social issue, IPV—understood as abuse of power within the context of an intimate partner relationship, mainly perpetrated by men and involving a pattern of behavior—has been studied for decades in many disciplines. A less common yet vital research perspective is to examine IPV …
A feminist-affordance lens
Purpose The authors explore the entanglement of smartphone technology and power in this paper. This paper explores the following question: In what ways does the actualization of smartphone affordances result in empowering outcomes (i.e. increase or reduce oppression) in the daily lives of refugees? Leveraging both affordance and feminist theories, the authors develop a hybrid lens bringing attention to the contextualized relationship between soci…
Attitudes of millennials toward corporate responsibility
Purpose We examined the attitudes of millennial-aged business students toward economic, social and environmental corporate responsibility (CR). Currently, these individuals are of an age that they have entered the workforce and are now ascending or have ascended into roles of leadership in which they have decision-making power that influences their company’s CR agenda and implementation. Thus, following the ecological systems perspective, we test…
Speaking Across Silences
Sites of contestation
Social justice movements are often portrayed as unified, yet they are frequently shaped by internal tensions over meaning, priorities, and strategies for action. While Frame Theory recognizes that collective action frames are contested, existing research has tended to model framing as a relatively stable and linear process. This article examines how framing tensions operate as generative dynamics within feminist organizing rather than as obstacle…
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Gender Diversity and Inequality (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Business ethics (3 works) · Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting (3 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (3 works)